<p>I try to raise some kind of hope for those on the waitlist. Last year, Stanford did not accept anyone from the waitlist. I certainly hope that it is different this time. </p>
<p>Last year, Stanford overenrolled with yield of 71% without drawing from the waitlist. That means Stanford enrolled 1704 out of 2400 admitted. If they think that they can keep the same yield without drawing from the waitlist, this year they will enroll 1633 out of 2300 admitted, which is probably the target for them. Now your hope lies in the lower yield which could be very possible.</p>
<p>If the yield is 69% which is a likable average number for Yale and Stanford in the past few years, it means only 1587 will accept their offers and the rest are going to somewhere else. In this case, they could accept another 50 students. Last year, Harvard accepted more than 200 from the waitlist, Yale about 100 and Princeton about 90 as I remember them correctly. It could happen to Stanford this year too to have 100 on the waitlist. But in this case, it will push the yield down to 67%, a relative low for its average.</p>
<p>How many on the waitlist? They are about 700+ for Yale from the released data, so I would say about 700 – 1000 are waitlisting at Stanford.</p>
<p>Good luck for everyone.</p>
<p>I would appreciate if you could supply your info about where you are accepted.</p>
<p>thanks(: this actually did make me a little more hopeful. i remember reading that no one from the waitlist was accepted last year, and the year before that only 16 out of a couple hundred were…so i was pretty down, since it was my first choice and all. *butttttt fingers crossed that something changes and i still get in[[:</p>
<p>Yep, my letter said 5% too. 30,000 applied so around 1,500 got waitlisted. </p>
<p>I’ve been accepted at Tufts, Claremont McKenna, GWU with a nice 'ship, Wellesley, and McGill. I’m seriously thinking about turning down the waitlist offer because enrolling at Stanford would mean not being able to play DIII college tennis.</p>
<p>And yes, kill me now, but I could see myself choosing Tufts or CMC over Stanford. I think that’s a first…</p>
<p>I do have to think about the fact that as an international paying almost full tuition, a Stanford degree is worth more. But I don’t know. </p>
<p>If you accept a spot on the waitlist and you are subsequently accepted, do you HAVE to enroll at Stanford?</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Stanford, it’s a dream come true just to be waitlisted, but their damn tennis team is too good…</p>
<p>Princeton has 1331 on the waitlist, the size of the entire class. I think that Stanford should have the about the same. The key is how many of those admitted will go away. Now I have a clear but very different view on those cross-admits. </p>
<p>They will call and make sure that you are available and able/willing to come. They also try to avoid those cross-admitted with other HYPS. So, it is good for those who don’t get into any of HYPS. I am not sure how they balance the majors, … all these provided drawing from the waitlist will happen.</p>
<p>Any admitted student can login to the school site and see who else were admitted, I am sure they know other school’s rosters. The other proof is that last year, I was watching how Harvard was taking people off the waitlist. None of them were admitted by YPSM.</p>
<p>I’ll once again indicate that I disagree that that was the main issue. I don’t think any outside observer has comprehensive knowledge of how any college uses its waiting list.</p>
<p>Do you think themselves have comprehensive knowledge about what to do? But the goal is to get a short list of people from the waitlist, if that happens, to fill the class. Since we all think one is as good as everyone also, they could just pick in a way that the applicant will come. The goal is not to get as many cross-admits as possible, which is what the admit-weekend does.</p>
<p>ewho, have you checked to see how many tennis courts Tufts has? Plus, they’re all outdoors so with Boston weather, there won’t be much tennis played except in the early fall and late spring. Stanford, on the other hand, has lots of courts plus the weather to play all year. In addition to their div I team, they have a competitive club tennis team that has been #1 for the past few years.</p>
<p>mm… I am sure there are rainy days in Stanford, are those courts all outdoors? Besides, I thought the game is over, just a matter of clearning up. Maybe at this time it is similar to Tufts’, especially when you have people complaining about the conditions of the courts not good enough, and they are rather to play on somewhere else. I, as one, welcome them to do so, to save money to fix the courts.</p>
<p>Logically, it makes sense to avoid cross admits, because the point of a waiting list is to fill any remaining spots in a class with people who want to be there. I think in most cases, people would choose other HYPSM schools over stanford (i mean, I have a lot of friends who got into all of them, and none of them are looking at stanford…). but yeah. they probably try to choose the people who would be most likely to accept admittance off the waitlist.</p>