Waitlisted ay Yale

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Data: from the Yale Daily News.</p>

<p>1000 (one thousand) were waitlisted at Yale.</p>

<p>"About 1,000 students -- approximately 4 percent of the total applicant pool -- were waitlisted this year, Shaw said, who added that he would rather take people off the waitlist than admit too many students. The University is aiming for a class of 1,310 students.</p>

<p>"We're just being conservative," Shaw said. "We're also anticipating that if we're a little bit shy, we have a strong waiting list of kids that would love to be here."</p>

<p>As Mr. Shaw put it, he wants a long line of people waiting till the last minute so that he can fill every seat on his plane the way he wants. </p>

<p>I call it HEARTLESS.</p>

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<p>You have to realize that many students will choose not to remain on the waitlist...</p>

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<p>duplicate post</p>

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<p>And even those who do will have agreed to matriculate elsewhere and paid a deposit. Moreover, they may be on more than one waitlist.</p>

<p>Before anyone is admitted from the waitlist, Yale will check "informally" to see if they are ready to enroll if admitted.</p>

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<p>it is Yale though. Approximately how many would turn down the waitlist offer?</p>

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<p>Yale is quite similar to Harvard, and in the Harvard letter, they said about 2/3 choose to remain on the waitlist. So presumably Yale would have about the same "yield" on the waitlist...so around 667?</p>

<p>there were many assumptions (some may be faulty) made...so i really dont know for sure. just a guess.</p>

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<p>dont give up hope guys, the YDN article mentioned that they expected a higher yield this year, hence accepting less students overall. Perhaps they may need to take more from the wait list.</p>

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<p>There is always hope - and there is a good education waiting at many places in addtion to Yale. </p>

<p>But the commments of Yale's admissions officer, Mr. Shaw, crossed a line for me. Do the math: assume a 50% yield on the waitlist, assume that Yale will admit the maximum they have ever admitted of the waitlist - say 100. Says they ought to have 200 on the waitlist. Even 300 for a margin of error of another 50%. But 1000! I am sorry, I realize that Yale has something thousands want, but there is no need repeat Pavlov's experiment. </p>

<p>My adivice to all is to get settled with your choices and move on. You will make your life - not Yale, nor any other college.</p>

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<p>Seems like being put on the wait list was more like a polite rejection. Something along the lines of "You are good enough, we just dont want you."</p>

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<p>You are right run4fun. </p>

<p>I am not sure how polite it really is; I think it is more polite to be forthright and not cut off a finger with a slow dull knife.</p>

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<p>I'll never give up hope! I love yale! For god, for our country, and for yale - until I get an official rejection letter or notice, I'm still pulling for the Blue and White Y. And I'm going to make that extremely clear to them.</p>

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<p>The reason the waitlist is so large is that it is not ranked. They need a range of people, geographically, ethnically, EC strengths, etc, because they don't know who will or will not turn them down, and they want to be able to fill slots with folks needed to retain their "diversity" targets.</p>

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<p>Byerly, not to mention the old US News statistics...well now, don't we look ultra competitive with such a low accept rate?!! It is numbers-management.</p>

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<p>What are you guys planning on doing for the Yale waitlist? They seem pretty ambiguous in their letter.</p>