<p>So I don't know if I should say fortunately, or fortunately, that I am put on Harvard's waitlist. Anyway, since I am an international student from China, does it take one chinese admit to decline his/her acceptance to give me a chance of getting off the waitlist?</p>
<p>I’ver been told that a student who declines is replaced by a student who approximates some of the assets and qualities that the original student offered - a singer to replace a singer, a to poet replace a poet, an entrepreneur to replace an entrepreneur, etc. So that’s not necessarily a geographic quota, but it could be.</p>
<p>Thanks that’s pretty much what I thought too. So if there was some sort of quota for each region I would be replacing another Chinese student >>>> even slimmer chances as most Chinese people worship Harvard</p>
<p>^ That is a true statement.</p>
<p>but its impractical to think that. cuz they dont admit as though they expect 100% yield, so you need like 500 people to decline before they even take a single person off the waitlist. so if say 600 decline, what qualities do they try to find in the 100 that they would get off the waitlist? so id say probably not</p>
<p>Internationals who are waitlisted are seldomly admitted. And coming from China makes it even worse. The only ones who seem to have a fair shot as international waitlistees are Brittons.</p>
<p>^Is there any way to find out how many international applicants were accepted from the waitlist in previous years?</p>
<p>Those statistics don’t look to be available from Harvard’s website. I’d suggest reading through the older waitlisted threads in this forum to get a picture.</p>