<p>app2008 - you are not supposed to mark "i plan to attend" unless you are rejecting the waitlist offer.
and i doubt that putting "yale" down will sway them at all ha.</p>
<p>I accepted my place on the waitlist. I'm really sorry for you guys that don't have other choices, especially if it is becoming a financial burden. I've said no to all of my schools - except Pton, Chicago, and just got on Yale's waitlist - because, well, Yale really was my top choice. I never thought I'd get in, but I hoped. I was completely devastated when I found out I was wl'ed, and shocked when I got into Princeton. I'm only still considering Pton because of its financial aid considering Chicago is putting my in a tight spot when it comes to their finaid. </p>
<p>Yale has always felt right to me. I think that I need to get off my insecurities and, if I get in off the waitlist (which I doubt, but really hope) I will go. It's always been the school that I thought about...and I was pretty devastated to find out that I was waitlisted. So, I'm really sorry, but I've accepted my position on the waitlist. I really hope you guys have great news in a month and a half though. I hope we all do.</p>
<p>Well is it really that important? If someone goes on the waitlist, gets in, and chooses not to go, the admissions office just calls up the next person off the waitlist until they fill up the class.</p>
<p>Wait, what? I thought even people accepting a spot on the waitlist were supposed to put down where they planned to attend assuming a final no from Yale later on. If not... oops, lol.</p>
<p>It shouldn't be a big deal.</p>
<p>lol nice effort trying to convince ppl to remove their name from the waitlist...
...now only 1,043 ppl to go. :P</p>
<p>jk jk. i got waitlisted at yale too</p>
<p>DECISIONS DECISIONS! i'm still attempting to decide between LACs and universities. </p>
<p>good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>So last year, there were 760-or-so waitlisted applicants, but only 260-or-so accepted a spot on the waitlist. For a school like MIT last year, there were around 560-or-so waitlisted and nearly all stayed on it (520-ish). Is the waitlist stats of Yale believable?</p>
<p>Or maybe there's a reason for the small percentage of waitlisted persons staying on the waitlist. I'm conjecturing that most of the people waitlisted from Yale are competitive enough to get into at least one of Harvard, Prinecton, or the such, and thus don't care enough to stay on the waitlist. MIT prospects tend to love MIT and thus stay on the list, but then I've seen some statistics in previous years, and there seems to be drastic changes in the proportion of people who stay on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Eh. I don't believe in any of these stats anymore. It's too bizarre.</p>
<p>RevDem, where did you get those stats from?</p>
<p>Waitlist</a> Statistics at Top Colleges and Ivy League Schools</p>
<p>I don't know where THEY got the stats from.</p>
<p>The MIT stats came from their site's Common Data Set, but it only extends back one year. Refer to this post: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/474173-information-waitlisted-students-2.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/474173-information-waitlisted-students-2.html</a></p>
<p>OH OH. Yale Common Data Set: <a href="http://www.yale.edu/oir/cds.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/oir/cds.pdf</a></p>
<p>If they're not reliable... then... I don't know. Haha.
Though... it still strikes me as weird.</p>
<p>anyone, who mailed the waitlist repy card or fax the card with intend to stay on the waitlist, ever received a confirmation mail from Yale to confirm that you are remained on the waitlist? I have the card faxed a week ago, and I called the admission office today, and I was told that Yale will send a confirmation letter by mail.</p>
<p>a friend that was waitlisted at yale told me that he got his e-mail confirmation today</p>
<p>Perhaps more of the people applying to MIT see it as an overwhelming first choice, while applicants to Yale are applying to several highly competitive places, and if they get into one of those they are less likely to stay on the list.</p>