<p>Is it even possible to get off the waitlist? Haha. How many last year were eventually admitted off of it? I hope they consider response time. :P</p>
<p>I’m with ya, bro! The email has a link to a FAQ page and on there it says something like 2% of all applicants get waitlisted. From there, any number of spots can open up but it wont be a big number, as I’m sure you’re already aware.</p>
<p>I’m just keeping my fingers (and arms and legs and everything else!) crossed, haha. Congratulations to everyone that got in and good luck to everyone else like me still waiting!</p>
<p>If it helps, I knew of one person who got off the waitlist last year, and I know two people this year that were accepted and are probably picking other universities.</p>
<p>Haha, that does alleviate the nerves a bit. Best not to get my hopes up too much though. 
And I thought no one got off the waitlist last year. Hmm…</p>
<p>Hi guys! Haha.</p>
<p>Where else did you guys accepted into?</p>
<p>I got wait-listed to Stanford, and I think I jumped high enough to touch the moon. Honestly, it’s just what I needed after all the horrifying rejections I got yesterday. </p>
<p>I spent my whole life wanting Harvard (literally my whole life), and it was the first rejection I got, and ah man. I didn’t get up off the floor for the whole day. That’s the only one that really stung (cause it was rejection after EA deferral). Yale and Princeton I kind of expected. Columbia was surprising too. </p>
<p>I got accepted into Brown, University of Michigan and NYU, but I don’t care for any of those to be honest. I’m honored, but still. You don’t just go from dreaming about Harvard to Brown in a day. I’m mourning the loss, even though I know everything happens for a reason. </p>
<p>Anyways, the only other university I had in mind other than Harvard was Stanford, and after the rejections, it was literally my last hope. When I realized I got wait listed, that in itself was an honor, seriously. It’s Stanford, for christ’s sake. To me it’s the west coast Harvard, and the fact that they like me enough to wait list me is MIND BLOWING. Now I’m really worried about being accepted after that. I really really really am starting to imagine the perfect future with Stanford. There’s 813 of us wait listed…I wanna figure out how many from those accepted will decline and go somewhere else SO BADLY.</p>
<p>hahaha after I heard that you got into Brown, I was hoping that you would be one of those students who would decline and go off to Brown haha
But really, you should be extremely content that you got into Brown-- I got rejected. For me, if I had gotten into Brown, I would have gone right away- it was one of my top top schools 
You must have been an impressive student! best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I also got waitlisted at University of Virginia. Got into University of Rochester, University of Miami, and NC State University for engineering. I am too lucky to even be waitlisted at Stanford, haha.</p>
<p>Congratulations sarasalem94! Brown is amazing! Either way you’re in good hands. I feel your impatience though, haha.</p>
<p>My child was also wait-listed at Stanford. She got into Harvard (A shot at the moon)!</p>
<p>She will definitely not stay on the wait-list if Stanford did not think she is a good fit. Why push it? She also got accepted to Columbia . Brown, Duke, Amherst.Pomona, NU, WUSTL, USC, Johns Hopkins, UCLA and 2 others. Some of them came with very attractive packages with not much left for us to pay. We are still waiting on the financials for some.</p>
<p>It is tough already for her to choose a school from her accepted list.
I hope her getting off the list will make it easier for you guys that love Stanford. Stanford is a great school but not the only one for us. Good luck to you all.</p>
<p>Please consider the other schools that want you and and have given you admission. I love a reciprocated love affair.</p>
<p>thank you!! but my dad won’t let me leave my country unless it’s like, top 5. And on top of that, I feel like stanford liked me for…me. My older sister is a graduate from Harvard, so I always thought in the back of my head that if they, Harvard, accept me, it’ll be because my sister went or something. So I thought, huh, if Stanford says yes, then it’ll be because I talked about The Office and my bad humor in the essays and I just…was myself. </p>
<p>By the way, just to kind of make everyone feel better, I have reaaaally horrible scores. Like, truly horrible. So I mean, I’m hopeful, but I know there’s a bunch of 2300 SAT folks ahead of me on that wait list. But we’ll see. </p>
<p>Again, thank you for your nice words! I know in the end of the day, there will always be Brown and I’m so glad they liked me, but Stanford! I’d be over the moon if they accept me.</p>
<p>I can’t do this from my phone but, go to the Stanford website and search for CDS or common data set. You should be able to find the statistics from last year that show how many students they accepted from the waitlist. Good luck! </p>
<p>Sent from my VM670 using CC</p>
<p>Consider the numbers:</p>
<p>Stanford has extended admission to 217 fewer applicants to the Classs of 2017 than they offered to the Class of 2016. </p>
<p>Their Class of 2016 yield was 72.8% and 1765 freshmen enrolled. That was 58 more than the prior year (Class of 2015) when the yield was 69%. That was 65 more than the “historic” freshman class target of 1,700.</p>
<p>So, let’s say they achieve a yield in between those two years - call it 71%. That would bring in 1,547 freshmen out of the 2,210 offered admission. That would be 153 fewer than that 1,700 target. </p>
<p>But Stanford hasn’t historically taken anywhere near that number of waitlisted students - the exception being 2010 when they took 127 off a waitlist of 934 (out of 1,354 offerred) in a year when they had a 70% yield.</p>
<p>So, it seems to me that Standord is either:</p>
<ol>
<li>Anticipating an even higher yield than last year (77% to get to 1,700 enrolled);</li>
<li>Intentionally trying to hold down the size of the Class of 2017 to ease pressure on housing and other facilities due to increased class sizes in prior years; or</li>
<li>Deciding not to get surprised if (like last year) their yield is “too high”, preferring to go to the waitlist to fill the class if need be.</li>
</ol>
<p>My prediction is its #3 - combined with a little of #1.</p>
<p>Only time will tell.</p>
<p>stanford78:</p>
<p>Thanks for the data! You’re right. Only time can tell…</p>
<p>Just accepted my place on the waitlist!</p>