<p>Here's the email:</p>
<p>This spring, the admissions committee offered you a place on the wait list for the class of 2016 at Johns Hopkins University. The wait list allows us to offer places to students who submitted very strong applications, should space become available. In the interest of letting candidates know their decisions as soon as they become available, the admissions committee has decided to initially release this information by e-mail.</p>
<p>I am sorry to tell you that we do not anticipate admitting any additional students from the wait list this year. We have now met our enrollment target for the fall.</p>
<p>I realize this news may come as a disappointment, but I hope you will remember that we were impressed by your credentials, and we appreciate your continued interest in Johns Hopkins. </p>
<p>I wish you all the best in your college career.</p>
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<p>It's nicely written but it sounds like they did accept some off the waitlist. Does anyone know how many?</p>
<p>They couldn’t admit anyone. Admissions, like last year, erred and over admitted by a lot by way under predicting yield. Hopefully the new dean rectifies this problem of over enrollment. Yield is now at 38% pending summer melt.</p>
<p>[More</a> on 2012 College Admission Yields and Wait-List Offers - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/more-on-2012-college-admission-yields-and-wait-list-offers/]More”>More on 2012 College Admission Yields and Wait-List Offers - The New York Times)</p>
<p>*Johns Hopkins (Md.): Yield of 37.9 percent, an increase from 35.8 percent last year, which itself was higher than its 32.8 percent yield in 2010. It does not plan to admit any students from its wait list.</p>
<p>[Wait</a> List Discussion Thread (2012)](<a href=“http://www.hopkins-interactive.com/forums/ask-admissions/wait-list-discussion-thread-(2012)/25/?PHPSESSID=c7db912277a3f0ecd5da693b661a1e0c]Wait”>http://www.hopkins-interactive.com/forums/ask-admissions/wait-list-discussion-thread-(2012)/25/?PHPSESSID=c7db912277a3f0ecd5da693b661a1e0c)</p>
<p>By: Admissions Daniel</p>
<p>May 31, 2012
Wait List Status Update II</p>
<p>Earlier today the Admissions Counseling Team finalized our work with the wait list. As I wrote in my previous wait list update on May 18, as expected we have not chosen to admit any students from our wait list. The incoming Johns Hopkins University Class of 2016, as it stands currently, is right where we want it to be. We have covered our enrollment targets and also have enough students to cover any “summer melt” we may continue to experience. What all that pretty much means is that we successfully made our class.</p>
<p>With that in mind, the vast majority of e-mail correspondence sent today will notify students that since we have met our enrollment targets we are releasing them from our wait list. A small group of students (a little over 100) will receive a different message offering them a place on our small, extended summer wait list. Those selected to be on the summer wait list are also notified that we have met our enrollment targets and the reason for this extended wait list is in the event space becomes available.</p>
<p>For those accepting a place on this extended wait list it is important to note that chances for admission are slim and only will occur in the rare case that more spaces become available. This scenario resembles what we have decided to do in previous years, and no students were admitted from this smaller, extended wait list then. Final decisions about the extended summer wait list will be released by the end of July at the latest. Please note that the Admissions committee selects the students to be offered a spot of the summer wait list, it is not something a wait-listed student may request.</p>
<p>To all of you wait list students we extend our appreciation for your patience throughout this past month and wish you all the best of luck at the institution you will attend this fall. Every year these decisions are quite difficult to make, and I hope you understand the blood, sweat, and tears we put in as we agonize over these decisions. Having personally been wait-listed from one of my top choice schools, I can relate. But I also assure you that after your first week in college you will forget all about wait lists.</p>
<p>Well that’s great…the only way to correct this is to accept less people. I see like no hope of me going to JHU now.</p>