<p>Does anyone know how many students are wait listed each year at Yale?
Just wondering......</p>
<p>My friend was waitlisted. yale told him he was number 30 out of 45 on the list. he didnt get in.</p>
<p>Very few students are accepted off the waitlist. I don't know how applicable this information is to Yale but last year Harvard accepted no students off the waitlist.</p>
<p>The WL total number varies year to year, as well as the number accepted off the WL. I don't recall what goes into assembling the total list but the WL offers number is directly related to the matriculation of those offered admission. If Yale makes 1800 offers for the roughly 1350 slots and 1300 people accept then fifty slots open up. If 1400 out of the 1800 decide on Yale, then no WL people will be offered slots (and some beds need to be found in New Haven!).</p>
<p>I gather it's more of a "feel" of matriculation rates rather than some set formula.</p>
<p>"yale told him he was number 30 out of 45 on the list"</p>
<p>Your friend's a liar. Yale does not rank waitlisted students and typically put about 700 on the waitlist.</p>
<p>700 on the waiting list? O.O That's quite a huge number....</p>
<p>yeah 700 is a huge number, considering that most people who are accepted will probably matriculate</p>
<p>So if the waitlist isn't ranked, how do they determine who comes off the waitlist in the rare chance that they do draw from the waitlist?</p>
<p>Harvard took one wait list that I know of last year - athlete</p>
<p>Reevaluation. One of my best friends and I were both taken off the waitlist. My interviewer and regional director were pulling pretty hard for me, and I updated them after winning first place at a state contest. </p>
<p>Typically they will take at least a few off the waitlist. Since overmatriculation is a huge problem, schools give a conservative number of acceptances.</p>