<p>Last year Oberlin was also overenrolled but they still accepted 8 people off the waitlist. I’m trying my best to hold on to some hope!
By the way, I think that Oberlin has definitely seen an increase in their enrollment both due to a greater effort to reach out to prospective applicants, especially URM’s, and because they are an excellent liberal arts school which happens to give both need based aid and merit based aid. I think with the economy being how it is, that really made a difference to many applicants.</p>
<p>P.S. If there was some “summer melt” activity that would lead to the waitlist being used, can anyone give a time frame as to when this would be?</p>