<p>Does anyone know approximately how many students are waitlisted each year?</p>
<p>Varies, usually around 1000. The number they accept varies wildly.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information.</p>
<p>Of those, how many are eventually accepted?</p>
<p>“How many are accepted” answer is the same as “how many on the list”…varies WILDLY every year for nearly every school. </p>
<p>I keep thinking a waitlist isn’t necessarily a bad place to be this year. With so many application increases, surely colleges just don’t KNOW what their yield is going to be, so they may need a bigger list and may have to “work it” more than in the past. ???</p>
<p>I have a question about being waitlisted. Assume, hypothetically, that I am waitlisted at Princeton. I’m not really sure if I want to attend, and since Princeton probably won’t tell me if I am accepted from the waitlist until after May 1st (candidate’s reply date for most schools), does that mean that I should opt to remove myself from the waitlist?</p>
<p>I mean, how can people afford to stay on the waitlist? If they don’t get in, won’t they have missed the opportunity to reply to another school (besides a state school)?</p>
<p>I think you just have to be willing to lose your deposit at another school should you get off Princeton’s waitlist…</p>
<p>If you are waitlisted, you should definitely reply to one of the schools that have accepted you and put down your deposit there. After all, being waitlisted is NOT an acceptance and you may never get called off the waitlist, so you need to make alternate arrangements. Staying on the waitlist doesn’t cost you anything. </p>
<p>And if Princeton does admit you after May 1, you can decide at that time whether or not you want to accept. If you do accept, then you would forfeit whatever deposit you put down at the other school. Or you can just turn down Princeton’s offer and move on with your life at the other school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, worried_mom! :)</p>
<p>Soo you find out whether you got waitlisted at the regular decision time?</p>
<p>Yes…xokiwikisses. Come April 1 - you learn accepted, denied, waitlisted.</p>
<p>Then, if you are waitlisted, you want to still accept an offer from another school (by their deadline…usually May 1). </p>
<p>Then, remain on the waitlist and know you’ll lose your deposit at the other school. Or, remove yourself from the waitlist if you have no further interest in the school (let’s say another school was your first choice and you got in…of course you could then remove yourself from the 2nd choice that waitlisted you).</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>59 accepted from the waitlist last year.</p>
<p>[Mathacle</a> Blog: Yields of Class of 2013 at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT](<a href=“http://mathacle.blogspot.com/2009/09/yields-of-calss-of-2013-at-harvard-yale.html]Mathacle”>Mathacle's Blog: Yields of Class of 2013 at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT)</p>
<p>Let us say that I was accepted into, say, Cornell, but I really wanted to go to Princeton. I haven’t accepted Cornell yet. If I were to wait until April 30 to respond to Cornell, would it be too late?</p>
<p>Or, if I were to accept Cornell, and I get Princeton on May 1, would I still be able to switch (and lose the deposit)?</p>
<p>And in both cases, will admissions officers from Cornell and Princeton see what I’ve accepted at all?</p>