<p>I read all of the posts in the Decisions thread and here are some interesting results:</p>
<p>1.The number of candidates that got in are more or less the same with the number of candidates that got waitlisted! I did not compare these numbers with the number of students that got rejected since it is normal that some rejected students may not want to post.</p>
<p>2.Of the 40 students accepted,there are 5 cross admits with Yale and Princeton, 6 cross admits with Yale and 2 with Princeton!</p>
<p>Do you think that this is representative of the whole admits which are 2046?</p>
<p>actually the total admits are 43 with 6 cross admits between HYP, 7 between HY, and 3 between HP! And i did not count the cross admits between H and MIT or Stanford or Wharton</p>
<p>I got in, and I saw a list of all the students in my state who were accepted and who were waitlisted. There were are few more waitlistees than accepted students.</p>
<p>a lot of times, a wait list can be political. like if harvard doesn’t want to hurt someone’s feelings too much or doesn’t want to get too many calls from high schools/parents, they tend to waitlist. and since it doesn’t really hurt them to waitlist a bunch of kids, what you have is a very long waitlist. i think its a nice gesture but kind of irresponsible for them to waitlist so many. i don’t know.</p>
<p>by the way, you can add me in as another HP (i never posted on decisions)</p>
<p>after going around this board:there are admits with:7 cross admits HYP ,7 HY, 4 HM, 2HS, 5 HP… It looks that there are many cross admits this year.</p>
<p>There are many cross admits every year. Despite the randomness inherent in plucking 2,000 applicants out of a pool of 30,000 of whom at least half are completely qualified, the colleges don’t mean to be random, and they are all looking for almost exactly the same qualities in their students. Some students are going to do a better job than anyone else of presenting those qualities, and those students are going to be cross-admitted.</p>
<p>Every year, 20% of Harvard admittees choose to go somewhere else. While a handfull no doubt choose to go to state universities on scholarship, or to specialized programs elsewhere, the bulk of them are clearly going to Yale, Stanford, or Princeton. Maybe MIT. And since Harvard seems to “win” a clear majority of the head-to-head contests with those colleges, that implies that half or more of the students admitted to Harvard have some other option among that elite group of colleges. Which is consistent with the unscientific CC sample.</p>