<p>Middlebury</a> College offers 1,750 students acceptance to the Class of 2017 | Middlebury</p>
<p>Does any one know how many students were waitlisted ?</p>
<p>If this year is similar to past years (which it most certainly is), they probably waitlisted around 2,000 applicants. For reference, last year there were 2,114 students waitlisted, of which 1,006 accepted a place on the waitlist. Twenty waitlisted students ultimately were offered a place in the class of 2016.</p>
<p>2000 on the waitlist? Really? More than the number actually accepted? That seems odd.</p>
<p>According to the College Board website, there were 1600+ offered a place on the waitlist, but only 611 accepted a spot. 78 of those were ultimately offered admission.</p>
<p>Who are you going to trust? The College Board, or Middlebury’s own Common Data Set?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/292348/original/middlebury_cds_2011-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/292348/original/middlebury_cds_2011-2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>See Page 6, Item C2.</p>
<p>The waitlist numbers Tlbphd referred to are from the 2012-2013 common data set.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/440590/original/middlebury_college_cds_2012-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/440590/original/middlebury_college_cds_2012-2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thanks Crewdad–I didn’t even see that listed on Midd’s website. Crazy how much the numbers vary from year to year. I looked through a few of the previous years and the WL numbers range from around 1,200 to just over 2,000.</p>
<p>Here are the numbers taken from the WL in previous years:</p>
<p>42 for the 2009-2010 school year
49 for the 2008-2009 school year
0 for 2007-2008
54 for 2006-2007
38 for 2005-2006</p>
<p>You can find some good info here: <a href=“Assessment and Institutional Research | Middlebury”>Assessment and Institutional Research | Middlebury;
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<p>Your vision is fine. The 2012-13 data set isn’t on Midd’s website. Strange. I found it by googling Middlebury common data sets. That explains the misunderstanding.</p>
<p>It just makes me nauseated to read these figures. My S was a waitlist acceptee and is now starting his senior feb year…So lucky…My heart goes out to everyone who was rejected or waitlisted, and I hope you all have other good choices. Remember , if you can’t be with the school you love, love the one you’re with…</p>
<p>78 from WL last year</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/440590/original/middlebury_college_cds_2012-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/440590/original/middlebury_college_cds_2012-2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>If their expected yield is 40% range does that suggest they plan on going to the wait list?</p>
<p>^ Not sure I follow the logic Morandi because I’m not sure we know how many people are already committed to going to Midd from both ED rounds. The whole wait list thing gets me pretty crazy, not so much at Midd, but the way schools use it to protect their “yield” numbers used in some rankings formulas. While I appreciate the transparency and fairness of the CDS and the internet, I kind of miss the days way back when I was applying to schools and no one knew much more than the letter they received. I remember Yale a couple of years ago the year of the grad school murder, accepting less applicants than normal (because their apps were down and one assumes they didn’t want their admit rate to increase) then relying more heavily on their waiting list to preserve their numbers, presumably, because they were protecting their yield. I’m afraid to say it but as much as I love CC, we’re all part of the cause.</p>
<p>The article says that 1,750 of 9,112 were accepted. That includes 350 admitted ED I and II. So that means that Midd needs 350 additional students to complete the class of 700 (600 September starts and 100 February starts). So if their RD yield is less than 25%, they will need to use the waitlist.</p>
<p>It helps to read the article! Sorry</p>
<p>Here’s where I’m confused. Middlebury has traditionally had a yield of approximately 40% - as noted by morandi. This year Midd received a record number of applicants, 9112, but the acceptance rate translates to approximately 19%. In prior years they’ve had a lower acceptance rate with fewer applicants. How’d they do that? What am I missing?</p>
<p>Thanks, Arcadia. Yes, I didn’t totally think it through other than assuming a school has reasonable expectations about it’s yield and was thinking if they accepted 1,750 and expected a yield of 40% that would create a class of 700 which would make it unlikely they would use the wait list. Forgot about ED rounds, though, and now realize published yield rates are not completely descriptive of the actual process of admissions. Plus, while reading an article from Bowdoin the admissions officer said they used their calculations to create a class slightly below the target of 500…</p>
<p>‘expects to come in slightly below the target size and intends to accept students off the waitlist. That was also the plan last year, when yield was higher than anticipated. Consequently, students could not be admitted from the waitlist.’…</p>
<p>[College</a> boasts new record with 14.5 percent acceptance rate ? The Bowdoin Orient](<a href=“http://bowdoinorient.com/article/8121]College”>College boasts new record with 7,052 applications, accepts 14.5 percent — The Bowdoin Orient)</p>
<p>Wondering if Middlebury announced their intentions as well.</p>
<p>Urban…They must expect a lower yield this year, therefore accepting more students?? Dunno how this all works but it’s interesting.</p>
<p>Regular admission yield has been declining modestly as the applicant pool has gotten considerably stronger. Students now accepted to Middlebury are getting into Ivies and other most selective schools far more than in the past, and that is why the yield has declined. It’s one of those good news/bad news things: student body is stronger, but more are going elsewhere because more have those options. Spring yield might be 25%, which, when combined with the 99-100% ED yield, will produce a 41-42% overall yield.</p>
<p>Urban: the acceptance rate is about the same as the past three years, as the increased app numbers are now balanced by slightly lower yields, and so more students need to be accepted to yield the targeted number. Plus, Midd, like many schools, went to the wait list last year, and is not planning to go to the wait list as much as last year, so admissions accepted more at the outset. The 19% overall acceptance is for Sept and Feb admissions, which is just about the same as the past four years.</p>
<p>That would all make sense, except for the fact that 40% of 1750 is 700. So they are anticipating the same 40% yield this year, in recent years Middlebury has had an acceptance rate of 16.8-18.6%. I’m just confused about how that could be when this is a record year for number of applications. The only explanation that makes sense is that the yield was higher before. Of course, they have, in recent years, also increased the size of the student body. I suppose that explanation makes the most sense.</p>