Over the past few years, yield has decreased from 56% to 51% (last year). It would be unsurprising if it dropped a point or two.</p>
<p>This year, 3,984 students were accepted to fill a desired class size of 1,985-2,000.</p>
<p>3984*51%=2034.81</p>
<p>3984*50%=1992</p>
<p>3984*49%=1952.16</p>
<p>However, these are overall yield rates, which do include those accepted off the waitlist (who should have a very high yield). If, running from last year, 100 students were accepted off the waitlist, we can suppose a pre-waitlist yield of around 49% last year.</p>
<p>3984*49%=1952.16</p>
<p>3984*48%=1912.32</p>
<p>3984*47%=1872.48</p>
<p>So it seems likely that they will go to their waitlist. Exactly how much is hard to tell, but 50-100 would be unsurprising.</p>
<p>Good luck to all on the waitlist. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>That was impressive. Thanks BillyMc. While for the moment it is all wishful thinking, I think that will help calm those of us in panic mode. Furthermore, I think that by now they would know if they definitively will not go to the list, so the silence and ambiguity must mean it is a consideration at this point.</p>
<p>Very impressive and helpful thank you! And yeah I agree with toast, it’s comforting but obviously we won’t know what ND is thinking until they start calling. I think they are definitely going to start later this year (if at all!), maybe like end of next week at the earliest? I am completely guessing but I am on the Vanderbilt waitlist too and I know that is when they are starting to reach out to people. I am going to ask my school’s college counselor if she has heard anything from ND regarding the waitlist, although I am almost sure she will be unhelpful haha.</p>
<p>Glad I could help. It’s hardly impressive though, I just ran the numbers the Observer provided.</p>
<p>Notre Dame seems to like to go to its waitlist in some way. They don’t rely heavily on it, but they seem to build it in to their formula each year, so they can take a hundred or two students. Given past years and the figures for this year’s waitlist, anywhere between 1 out of 18 and 1 out of 6 should get off, if my estimates hold water. Of course, it isn’t random, so it will be those who have expressed interest and seem to be the most enthusiastic that should get in (they don’t want to have to worry about waitlist yield). Since there could quite possibly be two rounds of waitlist admission, [writing</a> a letter](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12323906-post2.html]writing”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12323906-post2.html), emailing/calling your admissions counselor, and possibly sending in updates if applicable are all still viable strategies.</p>
<p>I was hoping that colleges pull people off their waitlist due to interest, but I was waitlisted at Case Western Reserve University and I did absolutely nothing. When they called me to ask if I was interested, I didn’t even respond. Yet they pulled me off the waitlist anyway.
I seriously hope that Notre Dame is different though, and base it on desire to enter rather than statistics…</p>
<p>Different schools handle them way differently; some rank, some draw on interest, some draw on stats. Notre Dame doesn’t rank, and it seems like they draw on interest, at least as a large part of it. Obviously, everyone on the waitlist has a similar level of academic qualification.</p>
<p>I was on campus last month and I met with my counselor and she said that interest is a really big part of the waitlist decisions. One problem with ND though is that for a lot of applicants their entire family has gone there, its their top choice, etc. so it can be hard to compete with that!</p>
<p>My guess is that the calls start this Friday and Saturday or on Monday and Tuesday. I think this will be their finalize enrollment/review waitlist numbers and applications week. So at the end of the week or the beginning of next week, I think they should start making those phone calls we’re all waiting for. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>On another thread, someone said that they e-mailed their counselor, and he e-mailed back:
"We are waiting until Wednesday of this week to assess the final deposit situation. At this time we are well ahead of last year and it appears that we will not be taking students from our wait list. This year the confirmation rate is higher than last year—we had not expected that outcome.</p>
<p>We are waiting three more days in case we get absolutely no deposit mail postmarked by May 2nd …however, it appears from past years we will receive a few more and if this occurs our class will have reached its limit."</p>
<p>“But you should understand we are now 99.9% sure that our class has been filled.”</p>
This is surprising, if true. They planned for a lower rate, so they may over-enroll this year.</p>
<p>I hope that they are wrong and some of you are able to get off the waitlist. However, I also hope that you all will enjoy wherever you do end up. Perhaps it seems as misfortune today, but it very well may be fortunate and the place you were meant to be. Good luck to all.</p>
<p>Ok but they deferred, waitlisted and now are presumably going to reject me and that is not chill hahaha. Out of curiosity, where are you guys going (assuming none of us get off the waitlist)?</p>
<p>I am going to U of Michigan or I guess Vanderbilt if i get off that waitlist. I am sad too ND was my dream school! Although we can always transfer if for some reason our schools don’t work out. This is a huge bummer though…ugh. And because we are all stalking this thread I can assume that most people here wrote letters, sent updates, did all the usual stuff and we STILL didn’t get in! Ugh I’m sorry I just have to vent!! hahah</p>
<p>I doubt it… i hear they increased their list by 20% this year and they already sent out most of their offers hahaha
Hopefully, we’ll be able to get off though! I’m a bit of a pessimist heheh</p>