<p>Hey everyone, I just wanted to start a thread for all of the people who got wait-listed. Does anybody have any kind of estimate as to how many people get in off of the wait-list? Also, how does the wait-list at Princeton work?</p>
<p>I was waitlisted as well. I would like to know some of the information OP asked as well, if anyone has the answers. </p>
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<p>apparently about 80-100 get off of waitlist…out of like 1k-2k waitlistees…sigh, waitlisted here as well.</p>
<p>Waitlisted here too :(</p>
<p>1395 people got waitlisted this year, including me. I would say about 20-45 would get accepted this year after looking up data and calculating by myself for a whole night.</p>
<p>I got wait listed too :/</p>
<p>Waitlisted here as well. Do remember that Princeton over-matriculated last year, it is at all possible that it happens again this year…</p>
<p>Hotpongtato- how did your calculations go?
Here were mine:
Last year’s matriculated divided by accepted: 1357/2094= .648
Assuming the same yield, .648 </p>
<p><em>whoops</em>
update.
Last year 1397 enrolled, with summer melt causing forty to withdraw or defer enrollment resulting in a class of 1357. This year, using last year’s yield of .667, .667</p>
<p>Good luck, guys. >.<</p>
<p>Just wondering, if I choose to remain on the waitlist, and on the slight chance that Princeton admits me later on, can I still turn down their offer? I know some schools have binding waitlists, but is Princeton one of them?</p>
<p>no, that’s stupid. ^_^</p>
<p>Just to give the waitlist an idea - Princeton has a website up for admitted students, which you can access after you accept the offer of admission. There are already 1144 profiles. Now some of those may be staff members and no doubt a few will be taking a gap year or participating in the Bridge Year Program. I expect that the number will rise a little, as Stanford’s decisions come out today, and because some people may be waiting for their letters and/or financial aid. I hope some of you get accepted!</p>
<p>You can access the admitted students web site after you’ve been admitted, not after you’ve accepted the offer of admission. It is possible that some of those 1144 will end up going elsewhere.</p>
<p>I am an accepted student who won’t be matriculating, I am glad to help you all out even if it’s barely anything! Haha</p>
<p>@Greenroses
Even though 40 students might take a gap year or go on a bridge year program, the students who did these activities the previous year become a part of the Class of 2017. So you can’t just subtract 40 ppl from the predicted number of matriculating students.</p>
<p>@balderdash
The forty students from my calculations are not Bridge Year students- Bridge Year students I didn’t count as part of summer melt, because, as you said, the students who defer are replaced by those returning. The forty are the summer melt students who get off waitlists from other schools and withdraw or defer for other reasons than Bridge Year. Summer melt is a real phenomenon, as last year’s summer melt resulted in a decline from 1397 enrolled students to 1357 in the final class of 2016. Assuming the same yield, this year’s enrolled class will come in just under the target 1290, and they’ll need to use the waitlist to fill the spots left empty by summer melt.</p>
<p>So the enrolled student figure already includes the Bridge Year program students from the previous year?</p>
<p>I was offered a place on the waitlist that I’m not going to accept. I have other great options that I want to move forward with. Good luck to all of you still waiting on Princeton. It was awesome chatting/stressing with you, but I don’t think I’ll be on this subforum anymore. Peace!</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten the card in the mail yet. Anyone know when Princeton will release waitlist decision results? Mid-May something?</p>