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The target class size for next year's freshmen is 1080, compared to the class of 2008, which is 1050. Admissions accepted more students than last year so they wouldn't lose students and have to go to the wait list.</p>
<p>Conley said that from the beginning of the admissions process, "We didn't want to use the wait list [because sometimes] not all those kids are still there."</p>
<p>Because they didn't want to "take a chance," according to Conley, the plan was to "go out there and get this class without using the waitlist even if it means being a little less selective."
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Wait list When you get that decision in the mail, youll either get a letter of rejection, a letter of admittance, or a letter offering a place on the waitlist. We think you know what the first two mean. If youre offered a spot on the wait list though, you need to either accept or reject it. If you want to still be considered for admission to Chicago, you should claim your spot on the wait list and start talking to your admissions counselor. Tell him or her how awesome you are, how much you love Chicago, and send in more credentials to prove your wonderfulness. The rates of acceptance of waitlisted candidates vary greatly from year to year.
<p>US News for Class entering Fall 2003
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 1,402
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 82
Students enrolled from waiting list: 68
Total Class Size 1172
5.8% of Class came from the wait list. </p>
<p>riches73cas, you have been so great to post all these waitlist stats.
My hats off to you for your help in relieving some of the stress in the
waiting game!!!! ;)</p>
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Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges. Reed's concern intensified with disclosures in 1994 by the Wall Street Journal about institutions flagrantly manipulating data in order to move up in the rankings in U.S. News and other popular college guides. This led Reed's then-president Steven Koblik to inform the editors of U.S. News that he didn't find their project credible, and that the college would not be returning any of their surveys.
<p>ahh thank you rich. i got this email today: I am writing to find out if you are still interested
in being admitted from the waiting list to enter Reed
in the fall of 2005.
that doesnt necessarily mean i'm in right? just that i am being considered?</p>
<p>wondrlst -
Sounds to me like they are ready to make an offer of admission, if you are still interested in attending there, but I'm not an admissions officer.</p>
<p>Why not call them and see what it is all about.</p>
<p>IMO it would be cruel for a college to send an e-mail like that if they didn't have a spot for you. You already said you wanted to stay on the wait list. </p>
<p>On the other hand; Did you send anything beyond the card back to them. Additional info, current grades, new recommendations, a letter why you want to go there etc... If you didn't, maybe they want to find out if you really are interested before they offer admission to you.</p>
<p>Good Luck and let us know how things turn out.</p>
<p>hm. I did send them things..i even replied to the email saying 'i sent some stuff, did you get it' in a more polished fashion.. oh man this is driving me mad. I am for sure calling them tomorrow but we'll see. thanks for the response rich. here's to hoping reed ain't so cruel.</p>
<p>In response to richs73cas: Her NYU admission acceptance came by UPS envelope. The letter gave her two weeks from the date of the letter in which to let them know. Still waiting to hear from Richmond U, so the heat is on, but it is a pleasant heat! In the meantime, she has been hearing and reading very good things about Clemson. Confusion reigns , but we are VERY happy to have choices!
We are thinking of asking her (very helpful) public school guidance counse. But my D was just advised to call the schools herself. Good idea?
We are told that she may be given only 48 hours to decide if they say yes. The stress of being on a waitlist never lets up! :-)</p>
<p>Part of the last message got lost.
Our D is thinking of calling the remaining waitlist schools (Richmond, Bucknell), or having the HS school conselor call for her, to get a status update. Good idea?</p>
<p>While the GC can call, it is always good to have the student call. My daughter called her waitlist school and found out the waitlist has been activated and the calls will come in the next few days. The woman she spoke to asked her last name, then told her she didn't have the list in front of her. My sense is that her response was an easy let down and that D will not be admitted, but she did not get that impression from the woman's tone. Congratulations on the NYU acceptance.</p>
<p>Nice that your D has some good choices already.</p>
<p>Her HS GC should have some good ideas on how to proceed</p>
<p>(Here's my thought's FWIW)
Maybe the thing for her to do is make believe she's in everywhere.
Rank them in order of preference and decide where she wants to go, if she could go anywhere.</p>
<p>A. If her top choice is someplace she's already in, then she is done.
Tell the rest to take you off the wait list. (IMO No reason to be a trophy hunter if you really aren't going to go if admitted.) </p>
<p>B. If it's someplace where she's still on the wait list. She should call that college, let them know they are still her top choice and see what her status is.</p>
<p>Obviously you don't want to loose a "Bird in the hand" for one still "in the bush". So she may need to send in a deposit before she gets an answer from every college.
If a College that she prefers more offers admission after that she may lose the deposit at the first college. But I don't think there is anything binding her to attend a school if another wait list admittance comes in later.</p>
<p>Ben Jones MIT Admissions Rep posted this on the CC MIT board</p>
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<p>On behalf of the whole office, I'm really sorry. I was 100% convinced that we'd go to the list this year. We just didn't expect the yield to be so high.
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This year, 1,340 students decided to matriculate at Yale from a pool of 1,880 admitted applicants, Yale Dean of Admissions Richard Shaw said, . . . . Because of Yale's high yield rate, it is not likely that any students will be admitted off of the waitlist this year, Shaw said.
<p>US News Fall 2003 Transfer Student Stats
Transfer applications received for Fall 2003: 187
Transfer applicants offered admission for Fall 2003: 50
Transfer applicants enrolled for Fall 2003: 31 </p>
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Out of the 1,807 students accepted for the Class of 2009, 67.6 percent have decided to enroll at the University, Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye will announce today. That number translates to "just over 1,220," slightly above the target class size of 1,220.</p>
<pre><code>"We haven't gone to the wait list yet and it looks like we might not be going to the wait list this year," Rapelye said