<p>Two different posters on the waitlist thread claimed that their interviewers/regional officers wrote them saying very few students (possibly in the single digits) would be accepted from the waiting list. Can anybody confirm?</p>
<p>I called the admissions office today and heard a very similar thing. Apparently the yield was very high this year…</p>
<p>Well this blows.</p>
<p>just our luck- first the record number of apps and now the high yield… damn!</p>
<p>Felix I thought you took your name off the waitlist?</p>
<p>The Gazette article ([High</a> yield for Class of ?15 | Harvard Gazette](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/high-yield-for-class-of-’15-2/]High”>High yield for Class of ’15 – Harvard Gazette)) said there are between 10 and 15 spots. This doesn’t take the z-list into consideration, and I don’t know if this number accounts for those who will be taking a gap year this year.</p>
<p>From today’s Harvard Gazette: </p>
<p>"Students admitted to the Class of 2015 from the largest applicant pool in Harvard’s history have responded with great enthusiasm. At nearly 77 percent, the yield on admitted students exceeds last year’s 75.5 percent, and may rise further. Selected from upwards of 35,000 applicants, the class is almost complete.</p>
<p>Only a small number of other students, perhaps as few as 10 to 15, are expected to be admitted from the waiting list in the weeks ahead.</p>
<p>At this time, men make up 50.8 percent of the class. Prospective social science concentrators constitute 26.9 percent, with 24.8 percent interested in the biological sciences, 18.4 percent in the humanities, 12.6 percent in engineering or computer science, 8.4 percent in the physical sciences, 7.6 percent in mathematics, and 1.4 percent undecided. African-American students make up 9.8 percent of the class, Asian Americans 18.9 percent, Latinos 10.3 percent, and Native Americans 1.6 percent.</p>
<p>The Class of 2015 will be the most international in Harvard’s history. The yield on international students was an unprecedented 90.4 percent, and 11.9 percent of the class are citizens of other countries."</p>