<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: News :: Yield Holds Steady For 2013</p>
<p>Assuming a yield of 80%, 106 will need to be offered a spot to get 85 to accept. Good luck everybody!</p>
<p>yeah, hopefully the number of offered spots gets to 100+. It’s cool, though, still a hundred places at Harvard, the will admit about 1 in 7 :)</p>
<p>back in april, the crimson set a number at 81% as a target. that works out to be 126</p>
<p>guys 0,76 * 2046(=the number of ppl accepted) = 1555. With a class of 1665 in target that means 110 ppl accepted from the wl!</p>
<p>and with an 80-85 % Yield from the Wl 140 students will get off.</p>
<p>i will skip today’s class.</p>
<p>this will be my last post on cc before …</p>
<p>Guys, everyone keeps skipping the following line:
Some slots are still yet to be determined to be open or full. Hence the current differences on your math and Harvard’s stated numbers. These slots could got either way, either in your favor or not.</p>
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<p>This assumes that they will get the same yield for waitlist offers that they got for RD offers, which isn’t necessarily so. Consider what has happened in the meantime: The kids have attended other schools’ admitted students program but not Harvard’s, they have mentally bonded with the school that accepted them, and they have sent in their SIRs. They are probably currently signing up for housing and making plans to move there in the fall. Thus, the yield might be lower for watilist kids, and it will probably continue to drop as the process drags on and people get more attached to their current schools.</p>
<p>You’re spot on, coureur. I’ve already sent off my deposit to my choice, and have put in my housing request. Also, I had kept in touch with a guy I met at a Duke student event – we had a lot in common and hung out together for the 2-3 days and kept in touch on Facebook – and he’s also going, so we’ve put in to try to room together. I’m about to pull the trigger on ordering my laptop through the school, so that I can play with it for a couple of months before August. </p>
<p>So, if Harvard calls, I’d have some deep thinking to do before I reset my head around a new school and a whole new set of preparations. Even though it’s Harvard, it would be a difficult decision…</p>
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<p>You need to adjust for the deferred admits (+/-???). BTW: Where did you get 1665? I thought they had room for 1,688. Also, schools tend to overadmit to adjust for kids that don’t show up in the fall.</p>
<p>someone had mentioned on this thread that the Class of 2013 would consist of 1665 ppl.</p>
<p>I just looked up my stat. I think the number is 1,668 beds.</p>
<p>Assuming a 76% yield off the waitlist, 148 people will be offered to get 113 to accept.</p>
<p>I think you guys underestimate Harvard/the appeal of H. I’m certain the committee tries their very best to make offers to those that have demonstrated a very clear intent to enroll if taken off the waitlist. </p>
<p>I called a couple of months ago and chatted with a rep. If I recall correctly, around 240 offers were made, and a little over 220 accepted (I may be completely wrong, may have been 220-240 accepted).</p>
<p>not to lower anyone’s hopes or anything, but im pretty sure waitlist has an even higher yield especially since harvard thinks their overall yield will go up after the waitlist.</p>
<p>also, they do in fact make sure you are interested and most likely will take the spot before offering it. i believe i had a good chance of being taken off stanford’s waitlist, but before they even said anything, they emailed me and called my counselor to make sure i was interested (which i wasn’t) before offering.</p>
<p>wow, they didn’t even officially offer before they knew you were interested? wow.</p>
<p>how do they even rank the people on the waitlists? it’s by region/profile again, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>Actually, what I’ve read from posters on CC who claim to be in the know (had some affiliation with Admissions or various Admissions officers) is that since each original acceptee had certain talents or characteristics that contributed to the class that was shaped, people are taken from the waitlist to replace the talents of those who declined. So a singer is chosen to replace a singer, a mathematician to replace a mathematician, a debater to replace a debater, etc. It seems improbably complicated, but that’s allegedly the reason that no one can say where you “rank” on the waitlist. (Or maybe that’s a convenient justification for not answering the question of where one ranks. :))</p>
<p>gadad is right…they pretty much said that was what they do in the waitlist letter.</p>
<p>so im hoping ppl like me say no…which is a weird thing to hope</p>
<p>But I’m not really good at anything in particular… I don’t even know why they WL me… f.</p>