sorry! i didn’t account for all of my D’s classmates. of the 13 accepted to P, 1 is going to H, 8 are doing the deforestation thing, and 2 (as i said) are working with horses (i’ve since learned they are Lipizzaner stallions). the remaining student, an interpretative dancer (salsa mainly), will be spending the summer carving ice sculptures of endangered birds and crustaceans on the Riiser-Larsen ice shelf (mainly the Crested Honeycreeper and Palaemonias alabamae (also known as the Alabama Cave Shrimp). her goal is to create awareness of the impact of climate change on the Antarctic ice sheet and the plight of the Honeycreeper and Cave Shrimp over a 3-month period instead of doing two separate projects (as if these kids have any spare time nowadays).
i know this sounds troll-like and perhaps the details i’ve provided are gratuitous, but i thought it might relieve some of the anxiety i’m sensing in the posters.
@soccerboy16 it is possible that they’ve already met their target for enrollment this year (it was around 1308 or something) and now they’re waiting for the bridge year progam/other waitlist results to come out and then declare their yield for this year (because afaik bridge year people arent taken into consideration while calculating their yield rate)
She already committed to a certain school in Cambridge, but she is definitely considering it. Even if she doesnt accept, I think I can give up on the waitlist. No shot they’ll try again after three people turned them down from my school
I called Princeton a couple times. A few days ago, they said they aren’t sure if they’ll be using the wait list (this probably means they were capped in their enrollment numbers). I called again this morning. The admission officer I spoke to said that they’ll be using the wait list in ‘a very limited way.’
I personally wouldn’t put any hope into this. It seems like we wait list applicants were so close yet so far.
@ihcany - i don’t think you can read too much into the statement that princeton will use the wait list in a “very limited way”. when you’re talking about 30 or even 50 students being accepted off the wait list, for example, it’s by definition a “very limited” number of students. when they do use the wait list, it’s always limited. i would argue that the fact that princeton is actually using the wait list is what matters.