Waitlisted: Behnke is optimistic

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<p>from: Chicago</a> Maroon | U of C acceptance rate hits record low</p>

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“Because the group we admitted is so strong, I’d imagine they have lots of attractive offers, particularly from the Ivies,” Behnke said. “Harvard and Yale were even more generous to upper-income families than the Odyssey Program” which eliminates the family tuition contributions for students from families earning less than $60,000 per year.</p>

<p>Due to the uncertain yield, there is a relatively large waitlist of 1,200 students, compared to 800 students last year. The unusually large list stems from a pervasive caution in admissions offices in highly selective institutions.</p>

<p>“When you have such a selective institution and you’re looking at students that are going to get offers from other places, you have to be cautious,” Behnke said. “I’d be shocked if we didn’t take students [from the waitlist] this year.”

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<p>hooray!</p>

<p>10c</p>

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<p>I can assure you from the Admitted Student’s message board that a number of admitted students are not attending because they received large aid offers from schools such as Duke, Yale, and Harvard.</p>

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<p>^^ right… but doesn’t the college expect a certain number of people to take up other offers, and build that into their acceptance rate?</p>

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<p>^ya they expect about 2/3 to go elsewhere</p>

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<p>Last year the College had a waitlist of 800 and, I believe, took no one from it. It will be interesting to see what happens this year.</p>

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<p>Right, but if last year the college had initially accepted the same number of students it did this year, it probably would have wound up taking 50 or so students off the waitlist.</p>

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<p>I love UoC. </p>

<p>(LET ME IN!!)</p>

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<p>JHS, you also have to take into account the fact that this year, there are only about ~1100 or so spots, since we have to compensate for the huge class of '11.</p>

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<p>The university over-admitted two years in a row, so I think they were super-conservative this year.</p>

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<p>phuriku, I would be shocked and amazed if the college enrolled fewer than 1,200 students in the class of 2012, and I expect it to be more than that. Based on the number of students they initially accepted, it would be surprising if they didn’t get more than 1,100 from the existing pool. If the yield for the last few years held, it would produce about 1,200 enrollees. I believe the Harvard/Princeton effect will reduce yield a point or two, but other factors could easily offset that.</p>

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<p>If they do get that many, it will begin to tax resources, and result in even fewer admitted outright next year.</p>

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<p>Anyone have any experience of getting picked off the wait list? How do they really do it?</p>