<p>According to reports in the Duke forum, some students are already being accepted off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Any reports from other colleges?</p>
<p>Someone came off the Grinnell WL about a week ago, according to that forum.</p>
<p>I saw a couple on the George Washington forum accepted off the wait list as well.</p>
<p>We know of someone who was acccepted from Yale's waitlist on 4/27.</p>
<p>It is not true that anyone has been accepted off Yale's waitlist (check the thread again, it was a mistake). Most of those schools will not start looking at their waitlist until after May 1 - they can't. They have to wait for all accepted students to respond first.</p>
<p>There is a waitlisted, spring admit poster on the Univ of Miami forum that reported getting in for the fall.</p>
<p>Is there any way to check "officially" vs anecdotally from folks reporting here?
i.e, After May 1, do any schools post info on their websites as to whether or not they will dip into the waitlist? I would hate to keep waiting until June or something only to find out that the school isn't even going to their waitlist.
Yet I've heard this process can go into the summer...anyone with experience from years past, can you enlighten me?</p>
<p>Another question: Once May 1 hits, is it worth it to re-contact the college to reiterate one's interest if one has already sent in supplemental material? I keep hearing on the forums how important "demonstrated interest" is but when does it become annoying and when is it a case of the squeaky wheel getting the grease?</p>
<p>From the Vanderbilt Admissions Blog yesterday:
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<p>I believe one of my son's friends was accepted off the Olin waitlist - but I could be wrong - I am sure it is one of the tech schools...eeek, I had better get my facts clear. Will report back.</p>
<p>Emory. One student posted he got off the waitlist in the College Search and Selection.</p>
<p>Why would colleges be admitting off their waiting lists if they haven't yet heard from all the applicants?</p>
<p>I read in one admissions book that 75% of the reply cards are received in the final week of April. je<em>ne</em>sais_quoi - I wonder if some of them already received most of their replies and figured out that even if the remaining ones are all "Yes's" (slim chance), that they still need to dip into their waitlist to complete the class. </p>
<p>In reading past threads, I also noticed that colleges give different time frames for kids taken off the waitlist to respond. Some are one week after being contacted while others require a reply within 24 hours.</p>
<p>Early waitlist admits may represent "substitutions", as when the two oboe players a college admitted to fill a projected gap in the orchestra both decline, so it goes to the waitlist to find an oboe player. I have seen a couple of situations in the past where it looked like this was the major consideration, including at least one where the college had overadmitted and barely touched its waitlist.</p>
<p>Also, at this point most colleges have probably heard from enough students so that they know how their yields are running. If a college planned to use its waitlist anyway, and knows that it won't fill up the class from the pool of students actually admitted, why not start contacting waitlisters now?</p>
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It is not true that anyone has been accepted off Yale's waitlist (check the thread again, it was a mistake).
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<p>It is most definitely NOT a mistake. I did not get this information from a CC thread. I got it IRL, and the announcement was made in a public venue.</p>
<p>Wow, I was allowing myself some chill time on the waitlist watch front and now knowing that some schools are notifying kids will has me back at my post!
Kid's got exams so I won't tell him until they're over that literally any day some word could come...or not for months. How fun!</p>
<p>Yes, it does seem early, but this happened last year too. I like to imagine admissions departments hitting up the math professors for an accurate calculation of yield.</p>
<p>It's going to be very interesting to watch waitlist activity this year.</p>
<p>So...what happens if a kid who has two waitlist hopes gets one of them first, accepts, and then in two weeks gets into the #1 choice and rescinds the earlier wl acceptance? With the huge number of wl kids this year, won't that play havoc with the yield as well?</p>
<p>I'm not a math person so I'm not really sure how they calculate the yield to begin with and how close they cut it...and still be sure they don't over-enroll and risk having a housing shortage.</p>
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<li><p>Colleges have become adept at sticking an extra bed somewhere, and lots of things can happen to kids between May and September that free up a space or two. So I don't think the numbers are ever exact-exact.</p></li>
<li><p>The kid with the double-waitlist acceptance? I'm sure it has happened, or will happen, sometime in the history of the universe. But probably about as frequently as the monkeys randomly typing Hamlet. (What that kid should do is IMMEDIATELY buy a Powerball ticket.)</p></li>
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<p>I don't know-- I've seen postings from kids who are waitlisted at as many as 7 schools-- so anything could happen.</p>