<p>I don't know Blu - maybe the schools over- or under- correct in response to the previous year's admissions/yield data, which causes the wait list action to swing from one year to the next.</p>
<p>If a school doesn't go to the waitlist, it's because they made in mistake in predicting yield. The only reliable way to hit the year's enrollment target is to under-enroll initially and then top-off from the waitlist.</p>
<p>I wouldn't try to draw any sweeping conclusions. At any given school, the waitlist admissions ebb and flow with a great deal of annual fluctuation and no particular pattern. The same school could take a middling number last year, none this year, and a lot next year, just due to random variability in the yield numbers. </p>
<p>Schools do a fantastic job predicting yield, but it's never a perfectly exact science.</p>
<p>Boston University has also offered admission to applicants on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Has anyone been contacted and/or taken from the WL at Colgate?</p>
<p>I am cross referencing this article from another thread.</p>
<pre><code> "This article may be of interest, especial to those still waiting . . .
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1179...11-search.html
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<p>Brown will be going to its waitlist -- "The number of offers will be very limited."</p>
<p>My son's roommate at Emory works in the admissions office there. He said that Emory deliberately cut back some on admissions this year because last year's class was too large, and that they were planning to use the waitlist as necessary to round out the class. This is probably the case at other schools that overadmitted (or had larger than expected yields ) last year as well. Predicting yield seems to be a pretty inexact science.</p>
<p>Princeton will take 30.</p>
<p>I know someone admitted off the WL at Gettysburg.</p>
<p>I know someone admitted off the WL at Notre Dame</p>
<p>I know someone admitted off the WL at Wash U in StL!!!</p>
<p>Haven't heard of any movement from Rice's waitlist yet -</p>
<p>A neighbor was just admitted off the Cornell waitlist.</p>
<p>UChicago = not using the WL this year.
Johns Hopkins = very limited (>30)</p>
<p>Friends' kids have been admitted off the wait list, one at Wesleyan, one at Northwestern.</p>
<p>I know of another waitlisted student accepted to WUStL.</p>
<p>Anyone know how many got off the list into Georgetown? I know they did use it, because my D got a letter about being on an extended waitlist, apparently not making the first cut off.</p>