<p>Does anyone have any inside info of a good estimate of how many people accepted the waitlist spot and how many people will get off the waitlist this specific year?</p>
<p>since the admitted students still have a few more hours to pay their deposits, Stanford doesn’t even know yet. It might just be that I am trying to play down my hopes but I have a bad feeling they aren’t going to need their wait list. When princeton and harvard had SCEA a few years back, Stanford’s yield was a lot higher. With that said, they accepted the same amount of kids this year as last year (and princeton and harvard had scea this year) so there are fewer cross admits-- doesn’t look good for us! but fingers crossed anyhoo.</p>
<p>Darn, well maybe they can take like 40 students off the waitlist. I could still hope then. So does Stanford say how many they’re expecting to take off the waitlist once people decide?</p>
<p>It looks like we won’t hear from them until May 15 or at least thats what it said on the email we got “If you accept our waitlist offer, we will send you a status update sometime after May 15, 2012. We may hold a very small part of the waitlist through July 1”. They also linked us some FAQs. In terms of how many kids are on the wait list, they offered it to 700 some and expect about half to accept which isn’t too bad. I think 40 is a generous number. If any are taken off, i’d bet it’d be sub 20</p>
<p>All it takes is 1 - provided you’re the one…:)</p>
<p>The freshman dean I believe said that they’re expecting a higher yield than last year. Or at least that’s what she suggested in the Facebook group</p>
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<p>It would only make sense for them to have a higher yield… and I am sure they accounted for that some way or another-- its just scary that the Facebook group has 1700+ kids in it…
I wonder when they will announce the official yield-- I’d imagine it’ll be before the 15th right? Have y’all heard anything (other than whats been said on the group?)</p>
<p>Which Facebook group?</p>
<p>MIT has predicted their yield to be just over 70%, an incredible jump from 64.8% last year. Hopefully this doesn’t affect Stanford too much, no? </p>
<p>And which Facebook group are you speaking of JustSmile? I don’t see any posts by the Dean of Freshmen in the admit page.</p>
<p>In the past, Stanford has typically taken 0-20 students off the waitlist (sometimes many more, e.g. 60 - check the common data sets). This year, the schools that take most of Stanford’s admits (~75% of those who choose not to attend) - HYPM - have accepted far fewer students each, while Stanford accepted about the same number as it did last year. Because H and P reinstated early programs this year, it’s really uncertain how many Stanford might take off the waitlist (esp. since it didn’t accept fewer initially as its peers did). If there were one year in which no one could *possibly *predict how many Stanford would admit from the waitlist, it’s this year. Stanford has also been aiming for a slightly larger incoming class than in past years, so it’s very uncertain.</p>
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<p>MIT maintains EA while all of its main competitors - HYPS - have SCEA. Many have said that this is more or less the equivalent of MIT having SCEA as well, so its higher yield would be due to less overlap among the admit pools of HYPSM. That’s why its yield might be higher (the same result at the others as well).</p>
<p>Never mind I found it. There are actually 1753 members, membership is closed and there are two of the four people admitted from my D’s school alone aren’t even members! Looks like they may be a bit over-subscribed if their target was 1700!</p>
<p>I think Stanford’s target is above 1,700. For several years, it’s been higher than that (except for one year). This is why the undergraduate student body has approached 7,000 students, despite some protest from the community.</p>
<p>Phantasma - You seem well-informed about all of this stuff. As opposed to a prediction, what would you guess?</p>
<p>I really don’t have any idea - it could be higher, it could be lower. Stanford has to be more cautious than its East Coast peers because the overlap in admit pools is different. Even though in past years, more than half of its admit pool has been admitted to one or more of HYPM, changes in early admissions (such as at H and P) really make it uncertain.</p>
<p>If I *had *to guess, Stanford’s expecting 1725 students, or a 71% yield. I’ve been proven wrong on this before, so take it with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>I was working from the Common Data Set where they report enrolling 1707 in the Class of 2015. I figured they were going for a similar number in the Class of 2016 since the number of students to whom they offered admission (2,427) was only slightly fewer than last year (2,437).</p>
<p>Low sodium diet here - but a grain I can handle. Thanks.</p>
<p>They must be shooting for a class larger than 1700 because otherwise they wouldn’t have accepted the same number as last year. I know yale, harvard and princeton were pretty conservative with the numbers they admitted this year and I am sure that there are kids who have accepted stanford and are waiting for those three schools. If harvard, yale and princeton were too conservative-- there may be a small trickle?
But yeah, 1753 isn’t looking too grand.
The other thing is that there are fewer people w/ us on the wait list. 700 some as opposed to 1000+ in previous years. I wonder if that means they are being nice and not creating an obscene wait list knowing they will be taking few, if any off.</p>
<p>Phantasma - you’re a popular guy…PM mailbox is full.</p>
<p>gap years! can’t forget about those!</p>
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<p>The facebook group was open to anyone who was admitted. I don’t think they removed anyone even if they did not pay a deposit.</p>
<p>I could be wrong but the list includes some current students.</p>