<p>It seems like many Admissions Directors/Officers at major universities make a career move every four or five years. Abbott was at Columbia University, Boston University, Drexel, Stanford, and now on to New York University. </p>
<p>In any event, I want to congratulate Shawn Abbott. I briefly talked to him once in person and he seemed like a really nice person. Stanford has flourished while he has been here. It will be interesting to see who they find to replace him. I would expect a major search throughout the country that will probably take some time. My guess is nothing really changes as a result of this. You sure don’t want to try to fix something that isn’t broken.</p>
<p>From 2010: “On June 30, the Office of Undergraduate Admission admitted the last 6 students to its Class of 2013. Stanford admitted a total of 127 students from its waitlist.”</p>
<p>Looks like Stanford will have at least the same yield as last year, if not higher. Stanford did especially well against Harvard this year, and overall is similar to class of 2012.</p>
They did not accept anyone from the waitlist during that year, but they admitted 100 more (2400) that year. Seems to me they did better in the HYPSM cross-admits battle this year than they did last year. I would guess they will get about 50 this year. But, I could be totally wrong.</p>
<p>I agree with ewho, Stanford seemed to do better against Harvard this year, however Yale seems to have done better when directly matched against Stanford, and considerably better, or at least improved against Harvard.</p>
<p>Ahead of Shawn Abbott’s departure to New York University, the Stanford director of admission said about 72 to 73 percent of students admitted to Stanford this year have accepted their offers. 2,300 applicants were accepted during early and regular admission.</p>
<p>“It looks as though our yield this year will be our strongest ever,” Abbott wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.</p>
<p>I don’t want to spread the wildfire but I am getting somewhat scared of our chances reading Mr. Abbott’s departing statement!</p>
<p>@cardfan: I think I have read somewhere on the Stanford website that this year’s target class size is 1675. So if Stanford’s yield is indeed 73%, it just may not go to the waitlist!</p>
<p>No comfort, I’m sure, but waitlistees should probably direct their energy at getting excited about one of the other equally good colleges to which they’ve been accepted: you will likely be equally well-served at the end!</p>
<p>Applying the yield percentage to the 2300 admitted students, and with a targeted freshman class of 1675, there will probably be very few, if any, waitlist admits this year.</p>
<p>Sorry to be the bearer of disappointing news. I am sure you all have great choices in the bag and will be very happy wherever you matriculate.</p>
When is the earliest we’ll hear back from them, y’think?</p>