<p>My D accepted a spot on the wait list. Wrote her letter and will just have to sit tight. An admission officer she spoke to said that there would definitely be some people accepted off the wait list but it would be in the “tens not the hundreds.” Does anyone know whether it is unusual to get called in for an interview when you’re on the wait list? </p>
<p>I just spoke with an admissions officer who indicated that Harvard will make an announcement about its waitlist soon and if they are going to make offers, I should expect that they will start to happen at the end of this week. </p>
<p>Usually the yield is announced around May 10-12 or so (this is based on data from another thread). Replies are known to come mid May. @woof28 are you absolutely sure that offers are coming out by the end of this week? It seems a bit early. </p>
<p>Hi all. I was also waitlisted at H and chose to remain on the waitlist. I’ve heard that if you are offered a spot at H, you only have a few days to respond to their offer before they give your spot to someone else. Is this true?</p>
<p>@auntyrose: When a college starts going to their waitlist, students are contacted one-at-time, as Admissions doesn’t want to admit large numbers of kids without knowing how many of them will accept their offer. In years past, Harvard has given students about a week to think about their offer and get back to them.</p>
<p>It’s not ranked per se. If not enough of a certain type of student is left, H will consult those WL students who share similar traits to offer a spot in order to maintain their preferred mix.</p>
<p>So far, I know of three people who were accepted into Harvard but chose to attend different institutions. Did Harvard release the yield for the Class of 2018 yet?</p>
<p>^^ Harvard has a total of about 1660 beds for incoming students. They admitted 2,023 students to the class of 2018. With an 82% yield that means that 1658 students are matriculating, so I don’t think there is room for more than a handful of students from the waitlist.</p>
<p>@gibby. It’s interesting to note that despite accepting half of their class in the early round they DID NOT increase their yield…as a matter of fact, it may have actually decreased slightly compared to last year since they use the term “nearly” 82%. I love how they use semantics in their articles to talk about several years back instead of comparing it to last years…even Princeton was honest enough to say their yield went down yesterday compared to last years…</p>
<p>…most likely they will accept around 15-20 from the waitlist…</p>