<p>Does anyone have wait list stats for past years (like how many were offered wait list, how many accepted a wait list position, and how many were ultimately accepted off the wait list). How many were wait listed this year???</p>
<p>[ir</a> - cds](<a href=“http://www.cmc.edu/ir/cds.php]ir”>Common Data Set | Claremont McKenna College)</p>
<p>Download each of these packets (they are all from different years) and scroll down to Section C: First Year Admission. You’ll see it. </p>
<p>Last year, 1066 were offered a place on the waiting list and 447 students agreed to being placed on the waiting list. 0 were ultimately accepted.</p>
<p>SOOOOOO basically, no one gets off the wait list</p>
<p>^ people have gotten in from other years. Just make sure that you demonstrate genuine interest.</p>
<p>Although it does not directly reference CMC, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about wait lists called “Colleges’ Tough Waiting Game” on April 9. The statistics vary wildly. In some years, the schools studied admitted a large number of waitlisted applicants and in others the same schools took none. My guess is that Claremont is so small that just a few admitted applicants changing their minds can affect the yield enough to influence the admission department’s decision re: taking waitlisted applicants. I won’t pretend to understand the effects of CMC’s recent SAT scandal, but, depending on how it influences admissions realities, CMC may take more applicants from a waitlist than they might otherwise.</p>