<p>Okay, so I got wait listed at Yale and I filled in their online form saying I wish to remain on the wait list. My question is when and how will they notify you of this decision? Will they notify you by email or by post?</p>
<p>They called my son on his cell phone. Not sure if that is standard procedure or not. He found out about 5 weeks after RD acceptances were announced and had already submitted an acceptance to another school.</p>
<p>I heard that Yale doesn’t give the responses through E-Mail or regular mail.</p>
<p>Here is my personal experience with the Yale Waitlisting procedures.</p>
<p>Because they don’t want you to feel bad they put everyone on the waitlist. The 1001 people mentioned on your rejection letter isn’t really real. In fact there is about 24000 people on that “list.” Because of this fact, no one is ever contacted about whether they got off the wait list. This is because people who are not rejected, unlike you, are not likely to choose a different college.</p>
<p>andrew that’s not true. Last year my daughter and her friend, both highly qualified, got a mixed bag of acceptances, waitlists, and outright rejections from HYP. Yes, there are lots of waitlists, but there are also plenty of rejections.</p>
<p>Please don’t listen to Andrew…that’s a ridiculous post. All he has to do is take a look at the results thread to see plenty of rejections. And people do indeed get in off of the waitlist.</p>
<p>Andrew seems to be very bitter and is talking BS; pay no attention to him. See: [Harvard</a>, Yale and Other Ivy League Schools Are More Selective This Year - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Harvard, Yale and Other Ivy League Schools Are More Selective This Year - The New York Times”>Harvard, Yale and Other Ivy League Schools Are More Selective This Year - The New York Times)</p>
<p>“If you’ve been waitlisted, here’s a statistic: of the 996 waitlisted last year, Yale eventually accepted 103 of them.”</p>
<p>Last year, that translated to a 10.34% chance of getting off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Oh, and they do contact you either way. My son was also wait listed at Brown and ended up getting a rejection not too long after he was accepted at Yale. Obviously he wasn’t too disappointed. :)</p>
<p>Schools do not arbitrarily but students on the list. These are applicants that the school would accept if spots open up. Since they can’t predict the matriculation rate of the accepted students they have to provide an avenue to fill spots if some students with multiple acceptances choose to go elsewhere. If you are wait listed at any top college you should feel proud but plan to accept an offer elsewhere as you may not find out prior to the deadline of the other schools. Most likely you will have to put in a housing deposit and if fortunate enough to be called, you will have to decide if it’s worth forfeiting that deposit. Good luck to all and you will be successful wherever you end up.</p>
<p>Being on the waitlist sucks; you’re not in and you’re not out. What you have to do is fall in love with one of the schools that accepted you – and then forget about big blue. If Yale comes calling, it is a win for you; and if they don’t, it’s their loss!</p>
<p>@andrewpwnsyou Have you ever been to this part of Yale’s web site? I suggest you take a look and educate yourself or I suggest you sue Yale for misrepresentation.</p>
<p>[Common</a> Data Set (CDS) | YALE Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/common-data-set]Common”>Common Data Set | Office of Institutional Research)</p>
<p>BTW there is 9 years worth of data there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses guys. But it’s still not clear to me how they contact you. Do they send an email with the same “congratulations” letter as acceptees? Or do they physically mail you? And usual which date can one expect this? Would Post May 15th be a good estimate?</p>
<p>noncensure, did you read my response?</p>
<p>Waitlist decisions can be made all the way through the summer until they fill the quotas they’re looking to fill. Depends on the university and the matriculation they receive not only from the acceptances but from the waitlist applicants too. May 15th is not a good estimate. That would likely be the earliest anyone may be accepted off the list. As Gibby has said, you need to accept your place at another college. Be excited about attending somewhere else. If you’re then lucky enough to get off the waitlist at Yale you’ll have to decide if you want to withdraw your admission to the other college and accept Yale’s, or reject Yale’s because you’re now excited and happy about the college you’ve already committed to.</p>
<p>My son has been waitlisted also. He’s accepted his spot and will proceed as though he won’t be accepted. If he does get accepted than he’ll have a new decision to make. Meanwhile he has some other fantastic universities to choose from.</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>nocensure: The admissions office TELEPHONES waitlisted students because they need an immediate answer. (If you need time to think about it, they’ll usually give you 24 hours, but no more.)</p>
<p>May 1st is the deadline for accepted students to let the admissions office know of their decision. Admissions does not begin to notify waitlisted students until sometime after May 1st, so you must commit to another school. Sometimes the admissions office notifies a waitlisted student as late as June/July. I actually heard of one waitlisted student getting called in early August. As I said before: You’ve got to fall in love with the schools that fell in love with you!!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot gibby. :)</p>