<p>Got the letter today.</p>
<p>UChicago '16. I’m pretty happy with my choice. I would’ve been upset to give up UChicago had I been admitted off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Good look to everyone! :D</p>
<p>Got the letter. Middlebury 2016 it is then. Yeah I’m a little disappointed.</p>
<p>Received the letter yesterday; a little disappointing but I’m not particularly upset… I’m Middlebury 2016 also, wotton617! haha I can’t wait.</p>
<p>Would anyone have time to post the letter? I live in a pretty sketchy area of town and I never seem to get my mail on time. Thank you!</p>
<p>lolToasty,</p>
<p>My son was one who turned down Princeton to attend MIT. (Didn’t apply to Yale or Harvard but also turned down Penn) Hopefully, you’ll learn to love MIT. 
<em>I</em> was more disappointed than my son. Princeton was actually third on his list after MIT and Harvey Mudd. He wasn’t concerned about prestige; he just wanted the right fit.</p>
<p>[U</a>. over-enrolls Class of 2016, none taken from waitlist - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/05/14/30977/]U”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/05/14/30977/)</p>
<p>I’m afraid that the writer of this story in the campus newspaper was able to get just a limited amount of information but it appears that the matriculation rate may have gone up between six and eight percentage points. The Admission Office had thought it was being conservative by estimating a five percentage point increase in yield for an anticipated 62% matriculation rate and a class of 1,300. Had the actual total been only a little over 1,300, Princeton would almost certainly have kept the wait list open assuming some melt as other schools went to their wait lists. The fact that they closed the list this early suggests that even with some melt, the class will be oversubscribed. My guess is that they are currently between 25 and 50 students over the desired class size which could result in a matriculation rate of about 64% if there was no melt. It could be higher.</p>
<p>This year saw a very big change with both Princeton and Harvard reinstating early action. The result has been that students have sorted themselves out earlier and there is less overlap in the acceptance pools. Harvard’s matriculation rate increased about five percentage points to 81% while Stanford, MIT and others also had higher yields than they had expected. Harvard will be taking only about 25 students from its waitlist while Princeton, Stanford and MIT will take none. Yale appears to be going to its waitlist but has not announced any numbers.</p>
<p>Stanford has an extra 60 or so students. MIT seems to have gotten at least 40-50 more.</p>
<p>So Princeton must have at least 40 to have closed the waitlist. We have to remember that they also probably got back 15-20 (or more?) students who did service or deferred an year.</p>
<p>[Updated:</a> U. overshoots Class of 2016 by more than 50 students - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/05/14/30977/]Updated:”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/05/14/30977/)</p>
<p>The University overenrolled the Class of 2016 by between 50 to 65 students and therefore will not admit anyone off its admission wait list, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said in an email Monday evening.</p>
<p>The University aimed to admit enough students to build a freshman class of 1,308 students, Mbugua said, but a higher number of students than anticipated accepted offers of admission. </p>
<p>We closed the wait list last week since the yield on the admitted students exceeded our expectations and we are over our target number for the Class of 2016, Dean of Admission Janet Rapleye said in an email Sunday night.</p>
<p>Of the 2,095 admitted students, 66.7 percent accepted Princetons offer, Mbugua said, a ten percentage point increase from last years 56.5 percent yield. The large increase is partly due to the reinstatement of early admission, which was offered this year for the first time since 2006. Of the 726 students admitted under single-choice early action, 86 percent of those ultimately decided to attend Princeton. . . . (continued)</p>
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<p>The jump of 10% points must have taken the Admission Office by complete surprise. It’s also unclear how much melt there will be given that nearly all of Princeton’s strongest competitors are either taking no one from their wait lists or just a handful. Only Yale may be taking more than anticipated and even those numbers may be small.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see the profile of the incoming class.</p>
<p>sorry guys :(</p>
<p>[Updated:</a> U. overshoots Class of 2016 by more than 50 students - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/05/14/30977/]Updated:”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/05/14/30977/)</p>