<p>Hello, old lurker, new poster here.</p>
<p>Has anybody received any notification re: the waitlist? Yays, nays, or silence?</p>
<p>I dont think you’ll start hearing much about the waitlist until the May 1 deadline passes and they see who has and who has not accepted their offer of admission.</p>
<p>Isle of Lucy - LACs usually start going to the wait list on or about May 1 but they work through it gradually over several weeks, mostly because they give each group of offerees a few days to ponder their decision. So they might send out 30 offers on May 1 (if they are seeking 30 new admittees), get 10 acceptances and then send out a new batch of 20 offers and so on until they hit their numbers. In other words, it’s a bit of a rolling process . .</p>
<p>I had looked this up for a totally unrelated reason, but… </p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 1266
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 646
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 73 admitted</p>
<p>I will venture to guess that of that 73, about 65 or so choose to attend. </p>
<p>I will also venture to guess that most of those will not require financial aid or if they do, it won’t be huge need. And I also think it will have something to do with whomever doesn’t accept in the first place. Not sure how that works (as if anyone does) but I think they try to at least look at gender balance to some degree. But, hey, I fully recognize I could be dead wrong. :)</p>
<p>Modadunn, are those numbers from this year???</p>
<p>Those numbers are from last year’s common data set… I believe for the class of 2012. Now it could also be from class of 2011. But if you go to midds website and search common data set, it pops up. There are several years on there I believe and this was the most recent.</p>
<p>I would venture to guess that current wait listers will not hear anything until after May 1.</p>
<p>^^ Thanks, everybody. I wasn’t sure if I should be expecting something sooner. Looks like a “hurry up and wait” situation.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, however, that the 73 admitted from the wait list last year is the most in recent history. The year before, zero were admitted from the wait list. It all depends on yield, which can be greatly influenced by a number of factors.</p>
<p>There are probably lots of accepted applicants who, like my son, are truly undecided and are going to wait until the last possible minute to decide. Given the strange year this has been so far for college admissions, it’s going to be really hard for Middlebury or anyone else to know what to expect. Could be zero, could exceed the 73 from last year.</p>
<p>Laxtaxi… just out of curiosity, how is what YOU think of his choices weighing in on his decisions if at all. Not to jack the thread, just wondering as a side note. :)</p>
<p>Modadunn// why is there also a slight chance for int’l students wanting financial aid to get off the list?</p>
<p>Winnie… I don’t know if I understand the question and I will say regardless that I don’t claim to know a think about waiting lists only that I don’t think there’d be much movement for anyone prior to May 1. However… I just heard from a friend of mine that their kid got off a waiting list (not midd) and it’s not yet May so again ,I have no clue how it works.</p>
<p>Winniethepooh, it is because Middlebury (and many other LACs) is not need blind when it goes to the wait list . .</p>
<p>torasee: are there many successful stories of those admitted with FA? when do you think middlebury will come to announce the decisions? (i know on a rolling basis perhaps)</p>
<p>Winniethepooh - IIRC, last year most of the LACs started hitting their wait lists within days of May 1. </p>
<p>The other thing that happens is that numbers will change with frequency in May as other schools hit their wait list, causing students who paid their deposit to Middlebury and end up getting taken off the wait list at, let’s say Dartmouth, to withdraw their acceptance of Middlebury’s offer of admission. This cascading effect is fairly significant and can open up even more spots. This year, due to economic conditions, it is probably much less predictable as to how many will accept offers of admission and what will happen with the wait list.</p>
<p>Needing FA is probably not an absolute bar to getting taken off the wait list but it will make it harder. Again, this will depend on how much FA has been given to the students who have accepted spots in the class of 2013 and how many FA recipients withdraw their acceptances and switch to other schools after being taken off the wait list at that school. </p>
<p>There are many variables and it is impossible to make any definitive predictions as to what will happen with the wait list (especially this year).</p>
<p>Grrrr! I need ALOT of FA!</p>
<p>any info on how many they are picking this year?</p>
<p>From what I hear on the street around here… a lot of kids were waiting until the last minute to make decisions. when you consider that decisions are whats needed BEFORE Midd could possibly know an approximate number of how many, as I’ve said since the beginning of this thread, even if they have some insight at this point because of replies, I don’t think they will be absolute until at least this weekend.</p>
<p>Modadunn// do you know when they started admitting people from the wl last year?</p>
<p>Not a clue. This is the first year we’ve done this in 6 years and a lot has changed since then.</p>