<p>Akzis, just mail it from yourself to the admissions office.</p>
<p>It’s pretty close.
Maybe those last seven were independent gap years. Or Princeton’s not accepting anybody off the waitlist and we’re all done for. (Just kidding). I wish I had a crystal ball, but I’m just guessing.</p>
<p>If you go to Princeton website, search for Common data set, it gives you last years numbers. No one got off waitlist last year</p>
<p>^Lol that’s common knowledge for us neurotic waitlistees already</p>
<p>Just as a general update for this thread: The Official Princeton University Class of 2017 on facebook is already capped at 1,970 members. While I understand that some will be students from other years facilitating group chat, or other people of the sort (admitted students who will not matriculate), it isn’t looking that great for us in terms of numbers. Anyone else worried they’ll over enroll again? I can’t seem to shake the feeling.</p>
<p>I don’t think we have anything to worry about, actually. Approximately 500-600 of the people in that group are current students at Princeton (I dedicated an hour to counting them a couple of weeks ago and the number was 592; keep in mind that this number can fluctuate due to these people leaving, others joining). Then there are ■■■■■■ and then there are lurkers like me, and friends of people like me, in that group. Subtracting those numbers from the member count, the actual group member count would drop to about 1.3K. Minus the number of students who will not be matriculating IN THE GROUP (cross-admits, financial aid reasons) and I would put the number of actual committed admits in the group to be about 1K… I capitalized “IN THE GROUP” because we also need to keep in mind any deviations due to people who don’t join the group, don’t have a Facebook, etc.</p>
<p>I would put the yield rate to be very close to that of last year – somewhere in the 66% range.</p>
<p>I might be going out on a limb here, but admitted students will have experienced rainy, windy weather at either one of the Princeton Preview days they attend. Rainy, windy weather on college visits has been quantified to have a slightly diminishing effect on yield rates. <a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...;
This might essentially nullify any similarly slight increases in yield that would have occurred (specifically, those that would most probably been found in the SCEA round of applicants; RD will probably still be around 56% yield). I also think that recessionary issues coupled with a potentially stronger pull of cross-admits by other schools away from Princeton (Stanford in particular) would also play a huge role in the yield rate this year.</p>
<p>I had actually read that it was the opposite, that rainy weather increased yield [Whether</a> the Weather Be Fine Or Not Actually Matters: How the Weather Influences Decisions | Artful Choice | Big Think](<a href=“http://bigthink.com/artful-choice/whether-the-weather-be-fine-or-not-actually-matters-how-the-weather-influences-decisions]Whether”>Whether the Weather Be Fine Or Not Actually Matters: How the Weather Influences Decisions - Big Think)</p>
<p>But who knows.</p>
<p>Your article cites the same paper to which I linked.
The article seems to begin by incorrectly calling cloudy weather as “rainy weather.” Rainy and cloudy weather (where there is a lot of cloud cover) are not to be confused with each other. In rainy weather, there is precipitation in addition to extreme cloud cover.
The article does not state that rain precipitation and high wind speeds are correlated with an increase in yield. It states that cloud cover, wherein rain precipitation and high wind speeds are ABSENT, is correlated with an increase in yield. </p>
<p>Upon careful examination of table 2 in the paper to which I linked, rain precipitation and high wind speeds are revealed to be negatively correlated with increases in yield percentages, and thus correlated with a slight decrease in yield percentages (image here: <a href=“http://i.imgur.com/1ba7Mgr.jpg[/url]”>http://i.imgur.com/1ba7Mgr.jpg</a>). <em>Cloudy</em> weather is correlated with an increase in yield percentages until it reaches and passes the threshold of <em>rainy</em> weather (rain precipitation, high wind speeds).</p>
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<p>do you guys think the boston terror attack may convince some admits of both harvard and princeton to opt for princeton instead of harvard?</p>
<p>^Yeah that might affect the yield…after the huge earthquake a while back up in SF near Stanford, Stanford’s yield for that year dropped 7%…we’ll see. Harvard will potentially lose cross-admits to not only Princeton but also Stanford, Yale, MIT, and Caltech too. Hopefully the loss of cross-admits isn’t heavily concentrated to Princeton. Only time can tell now.</p>
<p>Why would Harvard lose cross-admits to MIT?</p>
<p>I don’t think it will have an effect at all really, but who knows.</p>
<p>Didn’t the Yale Graduate student lab murder of a couple of years ago have some effect on the Yale yield?</p>
<p>[Canceled</a> Harvard Visitas unlikely to affect yield | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/04/23/web-yheadline-here-5/]Canceled”>Canceled Harvard Visitas unlikely to affect yield - Yale Daily News)
i agree that determined students will go to harvard, regardless of the terror attacks.</p>
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<p>Because MIT already had CPW.</p>
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<p>The logic for an unaffected yield, according to that article, is as follows: ““Personally, I do not think this will affect anything — Harvard and [its peers] are in the rarified arena of super-high yield, no matter what,” said Terry Kung, college counselor at Immaculate Heart High School. “Those determined to go to Harvard will go.”” </p>
<p>Yes, those determined to attend Harvard will certainly do so. Yes, Harvard and other elite schools have super-high yields and will always have super-high yields. However, just because a school has a super-high yield doesn’t mean that its yield can’t take a tumble – whether meager or significant. Princeton and Yale have, at one point, experienced a drop in yield rates – so have Stanford, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, etc. Moreover, Terry Kung’s logic fails to account for those who are on the fence between Harvard and another school(s). From the Princeton Facebook group alone, I have encountered at least five people who committed to Princeton over Harvard. One of them remarked that they were skeptical of Harvard’s level of cohesiveness in terms of the undergraduate community. No doubt the lack of Visitas affected that choice. If he had gone to Visitas, perhaps he would have witnessed something that totally refuted his skepticism over that matter. College preview days have a certain role in charming undecided students, and the lack thereof can indeed account for a loss of students who are swayed by the preview days of other schools.</p>
<p>@OREngineering - I will trust in your calculations, considering I don’t have much else to go on, and I would never be able to do those kinds of calculations without losing my mind. Haha. </p>
<p>The first week’s coming up. Good luck everyone. Fingers are crossed.</p>
<p>I’m going to be cautious and not too hopeful; I estimate that the yield rate figure will be a high 66% to a flat 67%. A low 67% in the worst possible case scenario.</p>
<p>rofl 9K views on this thread already</p>
<p>Somehow I’m not surprised.</p>
<p>heyy… I sent my waiting list card to Princeton last week and I’m pretty sure they have received it by now… Should I receive any kind of notification from Princeton regarding my waiting list status?</p>
<p>No, you should not.</p>