<p>anyone heard from UPenn or Columbia?
Don't tell me about Lee Stetson of Penn saying that Penn won't be accepting more than 20 off the WL... it breaks my heart....:(
I just wanna know if waitlistess of either schools have gotten a call...</p>
<p>My son was waitlisted at ND. We received an email this past Saturday telling us that they would not be taking anyone off this year's waitlist. They are currently over-enrolled. Bummer...</p>
<p>Does anyone have info about Wellesley?</p>
<p>Emory -- confirmed. The Emory board is reporting that Emory admissions has sent emails stating that enrollment is complete and they will not be going to their waitlist.</p>
<p>Well, from this (admittedly limited) CC sample, predictions about top schools having to make much use of waitlists --due to kids applying to many more places--seem to be wrong. With very few exceptions, yield seems to be up at every school.</p>
<p>Well, I'd say anecdotally it seems more uneven. Duke goes to waitlist early, MIT uses waitlist for the first time in years, Williams takes in a large contingent -- meanwhile, a college like Goucher which had unfilled spots a year ago is full up.</p>
<p>I think there is a seesawing effect where a college relies on yield projections based on the previous year. A college that was over-enrolled gets conservative, admits less... then needs the waitlist. A college that went to the waitlist the privious year underestimates yield, and ends up with too many acceptances, scrambling to find housing space. You'd probably need long term stats for each college to get a sense of any trend.</p>
<p>It looks like UChicago took only 7 from its waitlist.</p>
<p>My son was waitlisted by ND and I sent them an email last Wed. I rec'd a reply on Friday afternoon that they were over enrolled and would not be going to their waitlist. This came straight from ND and not from our high school or other source.</p>
<p>What's ND? I don't know much about abbreviated words....</p>
<p>ND = Notre Dame</p>
<p>As I hear about the many colleges where yield precludes the use of a waitlist (including Emory which is where son is going), I have a rather "amusing" picture in my head of son and two other roomates sleeping in a pint-size lounge that's been converted into a dorm room. </p>
<p>Seriously though, is it possible that some of these schools are going to have a problem putting everyone up? I am thinking also of Brown, which is said to be 65 students over the limit. The alumni counselor indicated this was also going to have an effect on how many transfers would be accepted at the school.</p>
<p>Yes Cami, that happens -- my son's LAC was over-enrolled the year he started, and there were a lot of students in "triple" rooms that were built to be doubles. Each college handles these problems in their own way, depending somewhat on the local community resources -- for example, some schools may rent local apartments or hotel rooms for the students.</p>
<p>Cami that's why MIT was so conservative in the acceptances this year- the dorms had been so tight- by intending to use the wait list they could make sure they didn't have crowding.</p>
<p>Swarthmore waitlist is moving this year, at least from the 1 post on the Swat forum about someone getting off....or maybe 2...don't remember.</p>
<p>This quote from the kid who got off the waitlist at Swat:
"The admissions counselor who called me with the good news indicated that "very few" people would be taken off of the waiting list this year. If I were to guess numbers, I'd estimate that 5-15 waitlistees will be offered a place in the class, though I really have no information to support that assumption."</p>
<p>A friend of mine just told me that her child was admitted to Tufts off the waitlist.</p>
<p>And Cami, that happened to a lot of people when I was in college (back in the day.) At the height of the first baby boom, I was tripled in in a double and all lounges were made into 4 person rooms - with no phones!</p>
<p>Movements in the waitlist of Swarthmore should have been expected, as they lowered their admission rate by a sizeable margin (in response to a surge in applications of about 20%.) </p>
<p>As quoted by Bluebayou:</p>
<p>Emory will not take anyone off WL, nor with The OSU, nor P'ton. H may take 5-10, G'town ~10, Chicago and JHU less than 10, UPenn = 10-15, UNCC = 100 (they under-accepted on purpose), Swat 20-30....and...</p>
<p>HAVERFORD reports that it may take up to 40 off the WL in comparison to 23 last year; 305 on Haverford's WL.</p>
<p>My D is waitlisted at Wake Forest...anyone have any insight into what the picture is there? (she's biting her nails!) Thanks!</p>
<p>Anyone hear about waitlist movement from UNC- Chapel Hill?</p>
<p>According to the Yale boards, 4 students report they have been taken off the waitlist.</p>