Accepted to MIT and Johns Hopkins and received likely letters from Duke and Cornell. Waitlisted by uchicago :-bd
Congrats! Keep us posted on the other schools!
Looks like a certain school is engaging in yield protection.
At the Princeton level, yield protection is almost nonexistent. A vast majority of admitted students will attend, and it’s impossible to be overqualified for a school that rejects nearly 95% of applicants.
@NotVerySmart I think @NerdyChica was possibly referring to uchicago, which of course is also a wonderful school. I think the waitlist was due to my own app’s inadequacy. My Chicago essays were pretty rough lol
@debate4ever We actually covered this topic in a few UChicago threads, when many wondered why several thousand applicants had been waitlisted. The long and short of it is that waitlists are long because they exist to fill institutional needs.
If May 1 has come and gone, and a university is short a tuba player and three “high-impact writers” because the tuba player went to Duke and the high-impact writers went to Caltech and two state flagships, the college will fill out its class with a tuba player and at least a couple of writers off the waitlist. Since they can’t know ahead of time whether they’ll need a tuba player, or a flutist, or a cellist, or a second baseman, or a wide receiver, or two Native American applicants, or a dozen Hispanic students, universities want to have their pick from the waitlist to satisfy any institutional need. So enough students go on that list to round out a class, no matter which students do or don’t commit before May 1, and more students are waitlisted than will ultimately be accepted.
As for yield protection, the UChicago essays get the job done pretty well. If someone really isn’t interested in the university, they aren’t likely to bother writing two (or even three) essays, one of which is (in?)famous for the quirkiness of the prompts. It’s hard to be overqualified for a university with an acceptance rate below 8% - when the term “Tufts syndrome” was coined, Tufts was admitting more than 1 in 5 applicants.
Waitlisted by Stanford (sigh, guess the West coast isn’t meant for me), admitted by rice and Carnegie Mellon.
Recap
Admitted: MIT, Columbia (LL), Duke(LL), Johns Hopkins, Cornell(LL), rice, washU, CMU, UVA, UNC-ch
Waitlisted: Stanford, uchicago
From my current acceptances, MIT is the favorite. I’m waiting on hyp and penn on ivy day although my heart is really only yearning for Princeton and Harvard.
Got in Princeton Yale and penn. Waitlisted by Harvard.
Princeton class of 2020!
Actually changed my mind. Yale 2020. Boola boola!
I’ll agree with @jackisawesome …HYS is impossible to say with certainty though you stand a very good shot at making at least one or two of them. The others you should make-- all great schools and tough to get into. Also agree with @renaissancedad about STEM/deep south/female. It says something about college admissions these days that someone with your application elements might not be a slam dunk everywhere.
@mayorshinn thanks for the feedback but I’ve gotten all my results lol. I got in everywhere except waitlisted to Harvard, Stanford and u Chicago. I’ll be attending Yale
LOL! Somehow I replied before I saw all the results! So happy for you! Good luck-- we’ll all expect great things from you!
Thanks! 
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