<p>GPA - 3.65 from UC Irvine (Dean's Honors List, Campuswide Honors (which has 600 members out of 22,000 undergrads highly selective) i'm taking several honors classes in college, high school: 3.83 weighted (tons of APs/honors classes)
Scores - SAT: 1790 but an 11 on the essay, math was my lowest but i'm not really a math person
ECs - habitat for humanity both high school, journalism editor in high school two years, save darfur now club, sports in high school, traveled to kenya for a summer and helped construct a school building, taught english/geography, lots of travel and community service, model un in high school
essays: i can write some really good essays, teacher recs should be good as well.</p>
<p>here is the catch: i was wait listed last year for freshman admissions. of course they did not even move to the weightlist because of the yield thing. my interview was extremely strong. i do need quite a bit of financial aid. occidental is my dream school.</p>
<p>hi i was wondering what the yield thing you mentioned is? i got wait listed for oxy this year and now i’m just waiting. is there no chance that i’ll even get off of it?</p>
<p>Yield is the percentage of students who enroll out of those accepted. For example, if 3000 students are accepted and 1000 enroll the school has a yield of 33.3%. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, Occidental is one of about fifty colleges that, for whatever reason, has decided not to post their common data set information which would let you know at least in past years how many students they made waitlist offers to, how many accepted the waitlist offer, and finally how many were actually offered enrollment. </p>
<p>There is a large variance among school on how they handle waitlists. I know for example that Whitman College offered more than 500 waitlist position last year and only 10 were actually accepted. Some years no one is accepted off a wait list. </p>
<p>You should try to call admission and ask them at least for a ball part estimate of the number offerd a waitlist, and the number or percent likely to be offered to enroll based on yields in past years.</p>
<p>Also, you can offer to begin school in January. By that time they will have a few drop outs which they can fill with a waitlisted person, if you can wait a semester. This is something you would need to talk to them directly about.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>thank you!
ohh do you think it’d annoy the office of admissions if i called and asked them to review my application so i know what i did wrong?</p>