<p>Hi, I just found out that I was waitlisted. Do anyone know how many students are placed on the waitlist each year? They said that they tend to admit 0-100 students each year but do anyone have some more accurate data? I think the 0-100 is just the "official" prediction that doesn't mean too much. Any input is appreciated.</p>
<p>Last year, 14 were admitted from the wait list according to NU’s Common Data Set.<br>
Source: [Common</a> Data Set, University Enrollment - Northwestern University](<a href=“http://enrollment.northwestern.edu/common-data/]Common”>http://enrollment.northwestern.edu/common-data/)</p>
<p>From the NU 2011-12 Common Data Set:</p>
<p>Question C2. Freshman wait-listed students (students who met admission requirements but whose final admission was contingent on space availability)</p>
<p>Do you have a policy of placing students on a waiting list? Yes
If yes, please answer the questions below for Fall 2011 admissions:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 3537
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 1605
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 14
Is your waiting list ranked?: No</p>
<p>^Thank you, though that’s really despairing.</p>
<p>^ Yes, it is. It makes you wonder why NU waitlists as many as they do for such a puny admit:waitlist ratio. Being waitlisted at NU means that probability of not being admitted is 99.6%.</p>
<p>@chucktaylor1, after looking through historical CDS, I found that these two years only 14 and 26 students were admitted. But years before that, over 100 students (and even over 200 in one year) were admitted. Has NU been more apt at predicting class yield these two years, hence the marginal waitlist admit rate? Or did this just happen by accident?</p>
<p>zyl1024: I don’t know the answer to either of your questions. I suspect that if NU was confident in its ability to accurately predict class yield, they wouldn’t need to waitlist a pool of 3500+ applicants, which happens to be about 1500 more students than the entire incoming freshman class for any given year. Total overkill, in my opinion, but I guess it’s a nice way to let a bunch of kids down gently rather than with an outright rejection.</p>
<p>You’re right about the number being over 100 in some years. In five of the last 12 years, the number of students admitted off the waitlist topped 100. However, in seven of 12, the number was less than 100. In 2003, only one made it. </p>
<p>What’s it going to be this year? I don’t have any idea, but I don’t think I’d be going too far out on a limb to predict that about 3500 waitlisted students aren’t going to be enrolled at NU later this year.</p>
<p>The stats:</p>
<p>NU CDS / Waitlisted / Admitted / Admit %
2011-12 / 3537 / 14 / 0.4%
2010-11 / 3204 / 26 / 0.8%
2009-10 / 2850 / 45 / 1.6%
2008-09 / 3135 / 155 / 4.9%
2007-08 / 2734 / 471 / 17.2%
2006-07 / 1572 / 220 / 14.0%
2005-06 / 1272 / 12 / 0.9%
2004-05 / 1199 / 155 / 12.9%
2003-04 / 776 / 102 / 13.1%
2002-03 / 700 / 1 / 0.1%
2001-02 / 600 / 11 / 1.8%
2000-01 / 725 / 5 / 0.7%</p>
<p>Any one knows how many waitlisted this year?</p>
<p>Usually this information is posted on the NU web site in about a week’s time.</p>