<p>yeah, this whole waitlist thing is weird/ridiculous. im not going to let this one decision affect my hopes about the other places i applied to. -_-</p>
<p>Did you guys who were waitlisted have a lot of financial need. I'm sure that factors into it as well.</p>
<p>That question goes to bball especially, as all the schools to which he got accepted are need-blind, while WashU waitlisted him.</p>
<p>stats:
SATs (2260, 1540)
ACT 35
SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 US Hist, 750 Bio</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 (2/182)</p>
<p>I dont really care. I wasnt planning on going to WUSTL anyway although I had an interview.</p>
<p>Right... I think Wash U is "need-aware"...which I sort of don't like.</p>
<p>The thing is, I think if you put "Other" they automatically sort you into a pile of Other/Unclassified pile.. unless they have a separate option that says "Unclassified" (or something of that nature).. anyway, congrats on your acceptance!</p>
<p>Ah, ok.. I have no idea.</p>
<p>Thanks. </p>
<p>I'm unclassified...hahaha.........</p>
<p>I just got my letter that said I was waitlisted. I also like some of the others applied for fin-aid, and I would need a lot. The letter also said 22,000 people applied, which really is a ton. I thought only about 12,000 would apply.</p>
<p>Someone on the "Good Ol' Wash U" thread on the admissions board just said that 24 people were accepted from the waitlist last year.</p>
<p>Only 24??? Is their yield so high? I doubt it...</p>
<p>Their yield is more like 30%. The question, however, is how many are accepted. The freshman class is to be roughly 1,350. If they only accepted 1,350, then around 945 will get in off the waitlist. However, if they accepted 4,500, then there will be few to none accepted off the waitlist. They don't explicitly state how many they accept, as final acceptance stats released include those accepted ED and off the waitlist. 22,000 is not surprising, as they have been over 20,000 within recent years. The question is how many of these applied RD, how many were offered admission, and how many were waitlisted. It's impossible to know for sure how many will be accepted off the waitlist without this information. However, it's possible to guess. From what I've seen, it seems only enough were accepted to fill the freshman class, and other qualified applicants were waitlisted as backups. If this is the case, a significant number (though not necessarily percentage, as a ton were waitlisted) will get in off the waitlist.</p>
<p>In 2004-05, there were 134 people accepted off the waitlist. However, I am sure the figure varies from year to year.</p>
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<p>The 24 was somebody else's figure; I don't know where it came from.</p>
<p>Only taking a small number from a waitlist doesn't mean the yield is high. It means that the college accurately predicted what its yield would be and admitted enough people to fill its available slots according to that prediction. </p>
<p>To give a simplified example, a college predicts a 25% yield and has a class of 1,000 slots to fill. It will admit 4,000 people; if the yield prediction was accurate, it will have 1,000 enrollees and no need to go to the waitlist. </p>
<p>To give a real life example, for the class of 2009 Brown admitted 2,557. It enrolled 1439, which I'm sure is the size of class it wanted.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted as well, but since they want a decision from you to whether you want to add your name to the waitlist or not by May 1st and thats also the date that many of my other colleges want a FINAL decision from me...how would this work? I know in the letter it says just enroll or make your deposit elsewhere but you won't get your money back?</p>
<p>If you get waitlisted and you accept your place on the waitlist, chances are you will not find out if you got off the waitlist until after May 1st. So yes, you will have to send in a deposit to a school you're definitely accepted at and lose that money if you're accepted to WUSTL and decide to attend there.</p>
<p>i think they're just trying to boost yield...my friend with a 1600 3x800 SATII's a 4.0UW and top 3-4% got waitlisted</p>
<p>Seeing as US News so longer ranks schools based on yield, why the hell would they want to reject your friend?</p>
<p>Perhaps his essays reeked of Jay Daigle-wannabe superiority. Top 10 schools get plenty of wannabes. There is only one Jay Daigle.</p>
<p>-Mario Vaz</p>
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<p>DO YOU WANT TO TRY IT!?!?!?!?</p>
<p>It's probably because alot of kids like your friend turn down WashU to go to an Ivy League school, and treat WashU as a safety. People like this artificially deflate WashU's yield, so it's in their interest to waitlist. They're in that "no man's land".</p>
<p>treewannabe, MIT also rejects perfect scores and valedictorians and accepts kids with low stats...students are more than numbers.</p>
<p>Huh, well, I'm a Korean-American girl with not-so-spectacular stats (SAT: 2190 with 710 M, 740 V, 740 W,) and I'm undergoing a real crisis of confidence right now. I have no advantages on my side whatsoever in terms of numbers. I didn't really expect to get into Wash U since I never expressed an interest, but it was still a little frustrating. My mind is playing through so many "what if?" situations, which is just pointless since I haven't even received answers from 9 of the 12 colleges I applied to. Haha, and CC ain't doing much to help my confidence either with people getting 3 or 4 likely letters from different Ivies.</p>
<p>I think I need to take a 1-and-a-half-week-long nap.</p>
<p>I got into Princeton. It's ranked #1, tied with Harvard University. You lose, good day sir!</p>
<p>They REJECT ME HERE because I led foreign revolt. THEY ACCEPT ME THERE.</p>
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