<p>I crunched some numbers, and it doesn't look good:</p>
<p>-2,282 students offered admissions
-56.9% yield last year (which was really low for Princeton)
-1,300 desired for the Class of 2015</p>
<p>.569*2282=1298...just about 1300.</p>
<p>I'm going to Dartmouth (even if I get into Princeton, I don't think I'd go). But don't get your hopes up guys...</p>
<p>hmmm? Last year…</p>
<p>The numbers I’m looking at have Princeton with 1,000+ kids
accepting places on the wait list, with 148 eventually matriculating
for a 14% figure. The latter are significant numbers!</p>
<p>dcu- Did you ever sift flour while baking in the kitchen? Analogy- sifting
is going on this month among HYPCS, Sisters. Sit tight, don’t blink, and
it will all sift out.</p>
<p>My .02 David</p>
<p>Yes they took the 148 kids last year, and they probably asked even more 200+ atleast, some/many of whom may have turned it down. So that’s pretty good odds and if you want to go to Princeton don’t lose hope.</p>
<p>As for me, I don’t really care, because I’m going to a great school with a better engineering program and I’m totally happy with it.</p>
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<p>They admitted 164 students off the waitlist. Assuming this waitlist yield (i.e., percent of waitlist admits who matriculate) has been the same as that over the last three years, I calculated the Regular Decision (non-waitlist) yields to be, from most recent, .5422, .5891, and .5623. </p>
<p>Assuming that average of those to be this year’s Regular Decision yield, that the waitlist yield will be predicted by Princeton to be the same as that from last year, that the same percentage of people offered a spot on the waitlist will accept that offer as occurred last year (.69), and that the intended class size is 1300, there should be 13 waitlist acceptance offers (13 of 861, or .0151). With the same assumptions except using the most recent Regular Decision yield, there should be 70 waitlist acceptance offers (.0813).</p>
<p>Neither scenario bodes well, so tito777’s attitude, though Princeton has a strong engineering program (one totally comparable to Cornell’s, which tito777 has committed to), is probably the best idea for waitlistees.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone, wherever they go.</p>
<p>Hey did anyone of you receive some sort of confirmation after committing to the waitlist?</p>
<p>^ I did not.</p>
<p>Thanks!I was starting to get worried since international mail can be unreliable.</p>