<p>those of you who got accepted how many will accept the offer? this is just to give us, the wait listers, an idea of our chances.
thank you.</p>
<p>if I get a great finan aid package from Columbia, I might not :P. So i think you should start praying that that DOES happen...lol</p>
<p>I think they accepted over a thousand and expect around 400-450 to matriculate. So significantly more than half will have to turn down their place to give the waitlisters a shot. I'm definitely going to enroll, but that's partly because I was rejected at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Swarthmore, and waitlisted at U Chicago, Sarah Lawrence, and Carleton.</p>
<p>Anyways, stay on the waiting list and hope for the best!</p>
<p>I too am planning on accepting the waitlist (at both here and Swarthmore).
I have not visited yet, so after I visit I may or may not remain on the waitlist.</p>
<p>I don't think I'll remain on the waitlist since I've already been accepted by Dartmouth, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr. I know one fewer person isn't a significant difference, but I hope it helps someone anyway. :)</p>
<p>2006-07 CDS</p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a placed on waiting list-1261
Number accepting a place on the waiting list-565
Number of wait-listed students admitted-2</p>
<p>2005-6 CDS</p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a placed on waiting list-1162
Number accepting a place on the waiting list-506
Number of wait-listed students admitted-0</p>
<p>2004-5 CDS</p>
<p>NA on Site</p>
<p>2003-4 CDS</p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list-940
Number accepting a place on the waiting list-411
Number of wait-listed students admitted-72</p>
<p>So based on last 2 years of Data: We are doomed(:()</p>
<p>Join the Amherst's Waitlisted</a> Class of 2011 Facebook group</p>
<p>I have a question. If I accept my place on the Amherst waitlist and somehow end up getting in, does that mean that I have to go to Amherst, or can I still decide, then, whether I want to go there or my other school at which I was accepted and to which I am now sending my deposit?</p>
<p>If you're on the waitlist and offered acceptance, it's not binding. You are perfectly free to turn it down and give another waitlisted student a chance! But if you wouldn't go there if you did get in, don't bother staying on the list.</p>
<p>orasool: already praying</p>
<p>Abhi08544: yea i was looking at the same stats and i agree: we are doomed. maybe i should transfer???</p>
<p>Yeah, I am also thinking of Transfer.</p>
<p>what college are all the waitlisters going to attend?</p>
<p>Waitlisted, and will take myself off the of it. Will be visitng Northwestern, Swarthmore, and Harvey Mudd. Have already visited Wash U in St. Louis, and will pick from among these.</p>
<p>I have zero acceptances, So I think i'll not take myself off the waitlist.</p>
<p>through<em>the</em>wire -- I'm going to Dartmouth. :)</p>
<p>edited to add: good luck, Abhi!! I hope you get in.</p>
<p>Thanks cameliasinensis and best of luck at Dartmouth(:))</p>
<p>yea Abhi good luck!!!</p>
<p>Thanks through<em>the</em>wire! I hope you get in too(:))</p>
<p>anyone else rejecting the offer of admission? or getting off the list? cuz from what i understand the only ppl rejecting the offer are those who got into the ivies.</p>
<p>I got into Columbia, but I'm staying on the waitlist. The two are like, polar opposites of eachother, but I think I might prefer Amherst. Oh, and I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but I read an article the other day which said that Amherst hopes, this year, to accept around 25 people from their waitlist. It's from the Washington Post, and there's a link to it on this page, though you have to have a subscription. It also mentions the number they hope to admit fact in the third paragraph on the following page:
<a href="http://www.amherst.edu/%7Epubaff/news/in_the_news/%5B/url%5D">http://www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/in_the_news/</a></p>
<p>Peugot, why would you turn down Columbia for Amherst...and people, it's useless trying to find out whose declining the offer...you know they ALWAYS overadmit...I think the yield is only 37% which is quite low, so you can expect to have more than two-third decline and still not get off the waitlist...</p>