Waitlisted & the Statistical Chances of Getting In

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Link to Common Data Sets <a href="http://www.colby.edu/ir/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.colby.edu/ir/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Fall 2005
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 624
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 320
Number of wait-listed students admitted 1
Total Class Size 511
0.2 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>Link to Prior Year Colby Wait List Stats
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=744948&highlight=colby#post744948%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=744948&highlight=colby#post744948&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Colby's use of the Wait list has varied considerably. For the fall of 2004 they took 53 from the wait list.</p>

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<p>US News Reports for the Class entering Fall 2004</p>

<p>Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: N/A
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: N/A
Students enrolled from waiting list: 81
Total Class Size 1638</p>

<p>5% of the Class came from the Wait List</p>

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<p>Union Doesn't seem to have the Common Data Set Posted on their web site.</p>

<p>US News Reports for the Class entering Fall 2004</p>

<p>Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 681
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 211
Students enrolled from waiting list: 105
Total Class Size 552
19% of Class came from the Wait List</p>

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<p>F&M does not seem to have their common data set posted.</p>

<p>USA Today article from May 3 2005 quoted F&M's Dean of Admissions
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-05-03-waitlist_x.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-05-03-waitlist_x.htm&lt;/a>

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Last year (2004), Franklin & Marshall offered a place on the list to 914 students and admitted 76, says Dennis Trotter, dean of admissions. This year (2005) it listed 1,067 and expects to take only about 30.

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US News Reports for the Class entering Fall 2004
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 982
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: N/A
Students enrolled from waiting list: 76
Total Class Size 531
14 % of the Class Came from the Wait List</p>

<p>US New Reported for the class entering Fall 2003
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 686
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 686
Students enrolled from waiting list: 59</p>

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<p>UC San Diego, UC Berkeley and UCLA do not use wait lists according to their Common Data Sets.</p>

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<p>Rice (
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<p>For Year 2005-2006:
Number of qualified applicants offered a placed on waiting list:945
Number accepting a place on the waiting list:322<br>
Number of wait-listed students admitted:7 </p>

<p>For Year 2004-2005:
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list:586<br>
Number accepting a place on the waiting list:284<br>
Number of wait-listed students admitted:8 </p>

<p>Source: <a href="http://ir.kenyon.edu/commondataset.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ir.kenyon.edu/commondataset.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Rice doesn't seem to have the CDS Posted on their web site.</p>

<p>US News reports for Fall 2004
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: N/A
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 514
Students enrolled from waiting list: 40
Total Class Size 726
5.5% of the Class came from the Wait List</p>

<p>Link to Prior Year Info:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=615629&highlight=Rice#post615629%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=615629&highlight=Rice#post615629&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>how about goucher college waitlist?</p>

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<p>Wake Forest please?</p>

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<p>University of Cambridge- Kings College?</p>

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<p>Either they don't use a wait list, or they don't release stats on its use.</p>

<p>US News has NA (No Answer/ Not Applicable) for the wait list questions.</p>

<p>Link to Wake Forest Fact Books <a href="http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Link to Common Data Set <a href="https://www.goucher.edu/x697.xml%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.goucher.edu/x697.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>They don't report the Wait List Stats for the Class that entered Fall 2005</p>

<p>Class that entered Fall 2004
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 355
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 135
Students enrolled from waiting list: 9
Total Class Size 402
2.2 % of the Class came from the Wait List</p>

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<p>Rich:</p>

<p>Thank you for the Union information.</p>

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<p>They actually publish a book with these statistics? How about BU, Emerson College, and Princeton?</p>

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<p>Link to Princeton's Common Data Set <a href="http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/common/cds2005.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/common/cds2005.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>2005
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List...........1207
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................794
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.......................0
Total Class Size.............................................. .......1229
0 % of Class came from the wait list</p>

<p>In 2004 Princeton took 79 from the Wait List
Link to Prior year Wait list stats
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=629259&highlight=Princeton#post629259%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=629259&highlight=Princeton#post629259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>gettysburg, hobart and william</p>

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<p>Link to Boston University CDS <a href="http://www.bu.edu/oep/cds.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bu.edu/oep/cds.html&lt;/a>
Fall 2005
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 3,551
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 1,824
Number of wait-listed students admitted 9
Total Class Size 4,209
0.2 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>In Fall 2004 they took 51 Students from the wait list
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=717626&highlight=boston#post717626%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=717626&highlight=boston#post717626&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>They don't seem to have their CDS Posted</p>

<p>US News for Class entering Fall 2004
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 900
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 374
Students enrolled from waiting list: 94
Total Class Size 700
13.4 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>In 2003 they didn't go to the wait list
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=666254&highlight=emerson#post666254%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=666254&highlight=emerson#post666254&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Williams' CDS are posted here: <a href="http://www.williams.edu/admin/provost/ir/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.williams.edu/admin/provost/ir/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>2005
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............1123
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................724
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted........................23
Total Class Size 536
4.3 % of the Class came from the Wait List</p>

<p>In 2004 they took 51 from the wait list
Link to Prior year Wait list Stats <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=607300&highlight=williams#post607300%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=607300&highlight=williams#post607300&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>