<p>I did not make the February 1 application deadline, but noticed that Baylor will consider applicants after this date on a case by case basis. I was curious if anyone knows if I will be notified of an acceptance decision by March 15 along with other on-time applicants or will it be later? If later, is there a specific date?</p>
<p>These are already interesting cases, but I was accepted by South Carolina after applying over a month late. i even found out two weeks before they were supposed to tell applicants. My guess is that, if you are qualified, they will let you in.</p>
<p>Follow up - I was notified I was wait listed - the notification stated there were 6000 wait list offers sent out :-(. </p>
<p>6,000??? Does anyone know if that is a normal number of wait list offers for Baylor?</p>
<p>From the following website, here are some statistics - they do not share from what year this data is taken nor do they state whether this is an independent study or data derived direct from Baylor, but will give you a flavor for the odds and magnitude of this year’s number (6000 offered): <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1074”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1074</a>
Students Offered Wait List 3,415
Students Accepting Wait List Position 293
Students Admitted From Wait List 32 </p>
<p>Do those statistics mean that about 13,000+ students were admitted, but chose not to enroll? What would Baylor do if 10,000 enrolled! How does it work out that just the right amount enroll?</p>
<p>Their yield is up from 19% to 22% and wait list offers almost doubled. All good signs for Baylor!</p>
<p>Here is how I view the statistics. From Baylor’s website: <a href=“Undergraduate Admissions | Baylor University”>Undergraduate Admissions | Baylor University; , it states the Freshman admitted class is around 3,190. From another website, it stated that last year, 27,828 students applied, 16,879 were offered an admission, and 3,254 decided to enroll (~19% accepted the invite). You pose an interesting question if the number were much higher than 19-22% accepting the invite, how could they possibly squeeze them all in? So about 10-13,000 kids turn down the offer each year. From the previoius statistics I provided, only about 10% accept a wait list position, so this year that would mean about 600 accept wait listing. Having such a large (several thousand) unknown offers taking acceptance, makes it interesting that they think they will only need 600 wait list. Then again, they may have enough history with the statistics, that they feel pretty comfortable with this level for the wait list. Time will tell…</p>
<p>It depends on how many they admitted. If they expect yield to increase again, they might have moved more to the wait list to reduce the pool of admitted students. Using the same numbers, if 25% of the admitted students enrolled (instead of 22%), enrollment would be 4200, which is more than they have room for, I think. They increased the waitlist by 2500… if you subtract that number from 16,879 (the number offered admission), you have 14,379 admitted… 25% of that is about 3,600. By moving those 2500 students to the waitlist, they can control the yield a little better, which would make sense during a time of uncertain growth. This is all speculation on my part, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was at least partly a factor. </p>
<p>I share your speculation on moving more from the admitted status to the waitlist. Using that rationale, they would try to keep the number of people to pull from the wait list about the same (+/-300 offers hoping to get about +/-30 actual accepted students). This would mean that the odds for those on the wait list will be less than last year (30/6000 = 0.5% vs 30/3000 = 1% last year) - either way, the chances do not look good for waitlisted in my opinion. </p>