<p>I know this is a little early to be asking, but what is the deal with Princeton waitlist. (I have a bad feeling that this is the best I will get) What is the precent of students on the waitlist who are offered admissions. And when would they notify a waitlisted student that they can enroll.</p>
<p>they usually dont take people off the wailist because they already overaccept (predicting the yield for that year). waitlist really depends on the year and how many students decide to attend but i dont think its common to get in off the wailist, not sure tho, anyone have any facts?</p>
<p>Princeton took 101 off the waitlist last year, and 27 the year before that.</p>
<p>The number accepted from the waitlist depends on how accurately they predict RD yield. </p>
<p>Two years ago, RD yield was 58.5% and they took 27 off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Last year, when, for whatever reason, the RD yield fell to 52% for the Class of 2004, they were under-enrolled and took 101 from the waitlist.</p>
<p>Byerly, where did you find that information?</p>
<p>How does the waitlist work? You have to say that you are definitely going if they take you from it?</p>
<p>nope its not binding or anything. they will contact u if u are pulled off waitlist (which is usually late may early june) and then u decide if u want to enroll then</p>
<p>then why does byerly keep talking about the juicy 100% yield for waitlist?
Don't you have to "accept a place" on it?</p>
<p>Sorry, I can't answer your question, but I have another question. If you get on a waitlist, you'd probably send in a deposit for another college. If you get in off the waitlist, you have to default on the other college. Is this right?</p>
<p>if you got off the waitlist, and decide to attend that college, you will forfeit the deposit you sent to the earlier one.</p>
<p>zantedeschia, could you rephrase your question? i think i might be able to answer it but i'm not too sure what you're getting at, sorry.</p>
<p>I think zantedeschia is saying that you are offered a place on the wait list, you have to choose whether or not to accept the spot. So given this choice, a 100% yield for the wait list that she says Byerly keeps talking about is implausible. Right? Not everybody offered a spot on a wait list accepts it.</p>
<p>that is true not everybody offered a spot on waitlist accepts it but i think what byerly is saying is that they dont count how many people reject the waitlist offer. when they say "27 had been accepted off waitlist" 27 had chosen to enroll and were waitlisted, as a result its obviously 100% because they dont release the numbers people who reject waitlist =D</p>
<p>that seems reasonable. rather than saying "27 were waitlisted, and some chose to accept", they choose to phrase it as "27 who chose to accept were waitlisted earlier", so as to give the 100% yield.</p>
<p>hamster,</p>
<p>info is available in their common data set:</p>
<p>note they left it blank for '02, but total enrollment supports Byerly's contention that none were admitted.</p>
<p>The usual practice these days is to contact the applicant informally and ask: if accepted from the waitlist, would you accept?</p>
<p>There might be a "non-yield-protection" reason for asking.</p>
<p>For example, there might be three slots left, and they ideally need 1 oboe player and two Hispanics. They don't just want three bodies, but specific talents or diversity types.</p>
<p>There are many reasons that college admission has become so complex, but the main one is demand. In 1932, 1,330 people applied for admission to Yale. Seventy-two per centnine hundred and fifty-ninewere accepted. Eight hundred and eighty-four students enrolled; twenty-seven per cent of them were the sons of Yale graduates. Last year, Yale had 15,466 applicants and accepted 2,009, or thirteen per cent. Thirteen hundred enrolled; sixteen per cent were legacies. In 1999-2000, the eight Ivy League colleges together received 121,948 applications and rejected more than eighty per cent. This means that colleges like Harvard and Yale can cherry-pick their classes. If Harvard needs an outside linebacker, it can probably choose between an All-Division player with 1450 combined S.A.T. scores and an All-State with 1350. Yale can choose between a legacy, a Latina, and a national-science-competition finalist, depending on which hole needs another pigeon, each applicant with two 800s on the S.A.T.s (a credential known as dialling toll-free). Ivy League colleges can reach very deep into their pools before they start coming up with underqualified applicants.</p>