<p>[U</a>. expects to take roughly 100 students off waitlist to fill demographic gaps - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/05/14/26171/]U”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/05/14/26171/)</p>
<p>@Sidewinder: Woohoo! That means we’ve got 1/9 chance of getting in. I’m so happy to finally have some numbers! xD</p>
<p>I really have no idea how many students will be admitted in the second wave, any thoughts? And has anybody been admitted since wednesday/when do u think pton will notify the second wave?</p>
<p>Well, I guessed wrong! I would have estimated about 40 off the waitlist this year so this is good news for those of you still anxious to hear. </p>
<p>If exactly 100 offers of admission are made to the waitlisted students then it appears that the matriculation (yield) rate will increase by about 1% from last year and the admission rate will rise to 8.56%. We won’t know the final numbers until the incoming class is profiled next September.</p>
<p>For those who are counting, I was accepted off the waitlist on May 5th as well. It was a really tough decision, but I decided to stick with Yale (to which I was accepted RD). </p>
<p>There was another kid from my school that was accepted to Princeton the same day, and he accepted his offer off the waitlist.</p>
<p>NJDS, I am happy for you</p>
<p>having received an MBA from Stanford, I got a taste for how wonderful that university is…</p>
<p>In my opinion, it is not Princeton, but for you it seems that is the perfect fit.</p>
<p>On the first day there, take a trip to **The Oasis **on El Camino and taste some fof the best cheeseburgers in the Peninsula…</p>
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<p>Pton, remember that Princeton is expecting a bigger freshman class this year</p>
<p>So far 16 people on this thread mentioned that they were accepted to princeton from waitlist. They are</p>
<p>cr-freak
muffinish
morgran simone
babykrishna
NJDS - not going to princeton, instead wants to stay at stanford(RD)
Mrscollege - accepted princeton’s offer
LurkNessmonter
lastone
orkinman
wizzle - accepted princeton’s offer
Lizhyde5
Garbriel
5thCamaro
DarkLycen
Highscho0lar2010 - not accepted princeton’s offer, instead wants to stay at Yale(RD)
Highscholoar2010’s friend</p>
<p>WL acceptees, please post your decisions so that people still on princeton waitlist can guess what is going on.</p>
<p>According to the official decisions thread, BeautifulNerd and christinew were waitlisted then accepted, and it seems like they’re both attending.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the yield numbers from previous years at their fingertips? (I now I could look it up, but I’m on my iPhone). It was something like 59% last year, correct? I think I recall the Fiske Guide saying that Pton’s yield used to be more like 68%. What happened?</p>
<p>OK, I answered my own question. I found this after a quick google…</p>
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<p>I think MorganSimon accepted to Princeton but she’s also still waiting to hear from Harvard.</p>
<p>What accounted foe Princeton’s sudden drop in yield in 2012?? Others remained very consistent</p>
<p>They stopped doing ED. At least, that’s how I understand it.</p>
<p>updated yields for the class of 2014:</p>
<p>The yield rate for the classes of -</p>
<p>YALE:</p>
<p>2013: 66.8%
2012: 67.6%
2011: 69.1%
2010: 70.0%</p>
<p>STANFORD:</p>
<p>2014: 72.5%
2013: 69.9%
2012: 71.0%
2011: 69.8%
2010: 67.4%</p>
<p>HARVARD</p>
<p>2014: 76%
2013: 76.5%
2012: 76.2%
2011: 78.7%
2010: 79.3%</p>
<p>PRINCETON</p>
<p>2013: 58.9%
2012: 58.6%
2011: 67.7%
2010: 68.8%</p>
<p>left out 2014 for princeton…</p>
<p>That’s because the 2014 yields haven’t come out yet. But people are starting to estimate. Here are some comments from the talkbacks on the Daily Princetonian WL article…</p>
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<p>I see that my brain was not engaged with my hands when I wrote the above. What I meant to write was that if 100 offers of admission are made to the waitlisted students then the yield will decrease by about 1% from last year.</p>
<p>Of the comments you’ve posted above the first is the one that is correct. </p>
<p>Another poster asked about the drop in Princeton’s yield. The explanation is simple. When Princeton gave up early decision, it immediately gave up the chance to get an automatic 100% yield from the group of students chosen in that way. Theoretically, any school could get close to 100% yield by taking all of its class from the early decision pool. However, there would be huge disadvantages to doing this as early pools tend to be biased toward certain types of students. They tend to be wealthier, more urban and have fewer URMs.</p>
<p>Restricted or single choice early action programs have almost the same effect. Both REA and SCEA have about 85% to 88% matriculation rates. Even though the students are not required to attend the school that accepts them under one of these programs, they are highly likely to matriculate nonetheless. The reasons are probably obvious. In many cases, students accepted in REA or SCEA rounds don’t bother applying anyplace else. Those who do apply elsewhere have to wait four months to hear from the other schools. During those four months they are heavily courted by the school which accepted them in an early program. By the time they hear back from the other schools they have spent a third of a year imagining themselves at the REA/SCEA school, hence the 85% to 88% matriculation rates. Additionally, a great many of the students deferred in the REA/SCEA rounds are offered admission later on in the regular decision round so that these schools typically end up with greater than 50% (and sometimes as high as 60%) of their classes being filled with students who had applied early. This is often even a higher percentage than at schools using early decision.</p>
<p>Typically, if about half a class is filled through early decision, there will be an 8% to 10% increase in the matriculation rate. Schools using REA/SCEA gain about a 4% to 6% increase in their matriculation rate by using these programs. Any school that currently has such a program and drops it obviously sees the reverse.</p>
<p>so from what i’ve been reading, the second round of calls has NOT been made yet??</p>
<p>yeah i don’t think so. i wasn’t accepted in the first wave and no one has contacted me yet to indicate either an acceptance or rejection. I just want this to be over with (just either reject or accept me since I’ve been accepted to University of Chicago but waitlisted here and Yale) because it honestly sucks and is really frustrating for high school to be almost over and to have to wait till June to have any inclination as to where you’ll be in the fall.</p>