<p>how big is the waitlist? does anyone have any predictions? i'm having my guidance counselor call today while i'm in school to find out.</p>
<p>does anyone hv the official number of waitlisted candidates?</p>
<p>Waitlisted at H too--They said in the letter that it is a small group...I just think that the typical Harvard CC'er is either acceptable or just barely so that's probably why this particular group got more WL than others.</p>
<p>How many waitlisted were accepted last year?</p>
<p>Byerly said: "I'd expect to see 30-40 taken off the waitlist eventually."</p>
<p>Byerly, about how many do you think will stay on the waitlist? Just trying understand the numbers reality here for my S, who was waitlisted.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted also; just wondering if anyone knows about how many kids are waitlisted.</p>
<p>The waitlist is "a small percent." Even 1% is 2,300 students. :(</p>
<p>Also, it says "in some recent years, we have admitted over one hundred candidates," [...] in other years, none.</p>
<p>This is good news, no?</p>
<p>I just called Harvard and asked them how many people are on the waitlist and the lady said "we don't have a list but a couple hundred. The waiting list is not that big." good news?</p>
<p>So admitting 100 out of 400 or so, that's pretty good :|</p>
<p>This is because it is not ranked.</p>
<p>As an opening occurs, they will be looking, generally, to replace the strengths of the candidate lost. </p>
<p>Exaggerating for effect, this means if they lose a left-handed Hispanic female trumpet player from North Dakota, they'll look through the list for someone with similar "qualifications."</p>
<p>I think it is unlikely that there will be 100 taken from the waitlist this year.</p>
<p>Consider: they admitted 2,074 for roughly 1,640 slots, which anticipates a yield of 79%. Two years ago, the "final" yield was exactly that. But last year, the yield was barely 78%. So, if the yield works out to be 78% this year again, that means they'll have to admit an additional 30 people off the waitlist for a total of 2,104.</p>
<p>Lets assume a "worst case scenario" from Harvard's point of view (ie, all the people for whom Lucky Charms are a way of life pull their apps, for example) so that the yield rate drops to a low for recent times - say 76% - that would still open up only 80 seats to waitlisters.</p>
<p>Just for comfort, 1% of 23,000 is 230, not 2,300. I would imagine the waiting list isn't more than 400 or so. </p>
<p>But I agree with Byerly - the size doesn't seem too relevant. Still, I suppose it boils down to a matter of self-reconciliation. To say you are waitlisted at Harvard for their most competitive year yet is saying something, I think.</p>
<p>Of course, I'm partial. I'm on the waitling list. haha.</p>
<p>Maybe they'll lose some Southern boys. (I'm from Georgia.) I sure hope so! If not, there's always graduate school.</p>
<p>(I'm saying all this, of course, to somehow convince myself I don't want Harvard more than MIT - the institution that did accept me - but I really can't admit that. I want to double major in math and literature; and, well, you don't go to MIT to major in literature. So much for my undergraduate literary studies.)</p>
<p>Warm regards to all those on the waiting list. For me, just not being rejected was a miracle. I might as well not lose the hope for another one.</p>
<p>Good luck, Mattlord.</p>
<p>"For me, just not being rejected was a miracle."</p>
<p>Same here. Silly me on that percentage :X</p>
<p>I'm also waitlisted by harvard and accepted to MIT.
I try convince myself too, but i still wanna go to harvard damn it. heheh</p>
<p>mattlord: "I would imagine the waiting list isn't more than 400 or so."</p>
<p>why is that? MIT's waitlist this year was 500, i think. and isn't Yale's waitlist 1,000?</p>
<p>Just one question. I was waitlisted for Harvard but dosent that mean Im at least an OK applicant? If so, why was I rejected from ALL the ivys and Johns Hopkins and MIT? I wasnt even given guaranteed transfer status in Cornell. </p>
<p>Sorry, Im just frustrated. I dont want to go to a SUNY (state U). Hopefully Princeton accepts me, but probably not.</p>
<p>I got on the waitlist also. (the college application process continues to astound me: rejected from Vassar, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Yale - but waitlisted at H . . .) But I'm getting off, because I decided that Sarah Lawrence College is ideal for me. Hope that ends up helping someone.</p>
<p>Jinp, hang in there man.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the waiting list decisions will come out?</p>
<p>In response to Jinp, Cornell rejected me, yet I was admitted to MIT. I'm sure you are a qualified applicant, but i guess you never know what these schools are looking for.</p>