Princeton Class of 2020 Waitlist

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.

Have any of you heard back from Princeton regarding the 2020 wait list? Has anyone been taken off the wait list?

@beebo12, that school sounds amazing! would you mind sharing the name of the school please?

Isn’t it getting late for them to announce their yield? A quick glance at the past few years seems to indicate this is taking much longer than usual.

@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)

My friend got off the waitlist today, so I guess they’ve started!

@emsschulz was your friend called on her phone? And where do you live?

Does anyone know if they have actually started admitting people?

they usually make contact by phone right? unless you’re abroad? oh man, so it begins!
@emsschulz thanks for the update! will your friend accept?

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 got off this morning. Going to accept admission.

congratulations, @DaPueo ! can we know which region you’re from? Did you send in a letter of continued interest?

Do you think they have called every single student that has been taken off the wait list yet? Do you think there are still more calls to be made?

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.

@emsschulz @DaPueo what time they call in the morning?

@ihcany does ‘limited way’ mean like 10 or fewer?

@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.

Yield report:
http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2016/05/u-yield-reaches-68-5-percent-for-class-of-2020/

What’s confusing is they say they don’t know if they are taking off waitlist yet two people on here have been admitted?

i agree @greysanatomy3113. i don’t think princeton would issue a public statement that isn’t accurate.