Waitlisted & the Statistical Chances of Getting In

<p>bidkid - Thanks for reposting "How to Fish" </p>

<p>and then Posting your "Catch" :)</p>

<p>Yale enrolled nobody on the waitlist last year.</p>

<p>Link to CDS <a href="http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eoir/cds/lucds2005.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/cds/lucds2005.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Fall 2005
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 1984
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 752
Number of wait-listed students admitted 0
Total Class Size 1,223
0 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>In 2004 they 123 from the wait list. Link to Prior year stats <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=869686&highlight=Lehigh#post869686%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=869686&highlight=Lehigh#post869686&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>US News Reports for Fall 2004
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 1,599
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 700
Students enrolled from waiting list: 83
Total Class Size 615
13.5% of the Class came from the Wait List</p>

<p>In 2003 they took 86 from the Wait List
Link to Prior Year Stats: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=634963&highlight=Lafayette#post634963%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=634963&highlight=Lafayette#post634963&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>georgetown SFS</p>

<p>Last year figures may give some clue to a school's wait list policies, but with the * reported * high number of mega-apps (15-20 schools), are there any stats about this year's chances, or is it too soon?</p>

<p>Too Soon,
The colleges don't have the responses back from the accepted students that plan to attend.
The common response date deadline is May 1st. So the colleges will need some time to see what slots they have to fill after that.</p>

<p>Georgetown doesn't seem to have their common data sets posted. But their Office of Institutional Research can be found at <a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/opir/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.georgetown.edu/opir/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>US News Reports for the Class entering 2004
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 1,901
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 1,161
Students enrolled from waiting list: 15
Total Class Size 1542
1% of Class came from the Wait List</p>

<p>They don't break out the Wait List Sats by Programs within the University.</p>

<p>Common Data Set doesn't seem to be posted.
Here's a link to a BC Fact Page <a href="http://www.bc.edu/about/bc-facts/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bc.edu/about/bc-facts/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>US News reports for the Class entering Fall 2004
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 4500
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 2000
Students enrolled from waiting list: 165
Total Class Size 2309
7.5% of the Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>US News reports for the Class entering Fall 2003
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 5000
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 2000
Students enrolled from waiting list: 200
Total Class Size 2208
9.1% of the Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>Good Luck :)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/CDS2005_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/CDS2005_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Fall 2005:</p>

<p>1500 students offered a place on the Emory waiting list</p>

<p>800 accepted a place on the waitlist</p>

<p>25 were admitted from the waitlist</p>

<p>Are you sure 5000 people are usually waitlisted for BC? i could have sworn the letter said 1500...5000 that just seems impossible...could it be a typo?</p>

<ul>
<li>pmsoccerpink
Those are the figures for prior years (post 430: Classes entering Fall 2003 and 2004) that were reported in the US News College Listings. Boston College doesn't seem to post their Common Data Set Online.</li>
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<p>BC very well may have reduced significantly this the number offered the wait list this year. (Class entering Sept 2006) </p>

<p>Or perhaps the letter refers to the number they expect to accept a place on the Wait List. (That was reported to be 2000 students each year for Fall of 2003 & 2004)</p>

<p>In any event the number reported being accepted from the wait list was 165 to 200, so they do make significant use of the wait list.</p>

<p>Good Luck</p>

<p>interested in georgetown? refer to this...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thehoya.com/news/042106/news5.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thehoya.com/news/042106/news5.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Has anyone been accepted from the 2006 Emory waitlist?</p>

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May 09, 2006
Waitlist</p>

<p>At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4 years: we notified 30 students by email that they have been admitted from the waitlist.

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<p>Link to Matt Mc Gann's Announcement <a href="http://matt.mitblogs.com/archives/2006/05/waitlist_1.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://matt.mitblogs.com/archives/2006/05/waitlist_1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>vassar college please</p>

<p>Bates College ?</p>

<p>anyone know any information on Fordham University yet?</p>

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sonymoni -
University of Michigan posts their Common Data Set Information, which includes Wait List info. <a href="http://www.umich.edu/%7Eoapainfo/CDSIndex.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.umich.edu/~oapainfo/CDSIndex.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Fall 2004
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 4,836
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 1,537
Number of wait-listed students admitted 5
Total Class Size 6,373
0.0008 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>Fall 2003
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 4,100
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 997
Number of wait-listed students admitted 0
Total Class Size 5,097
0 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>Fall 2002
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 4,677
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 1,219
Number of wait-listed students admitted 0
Total Class Size 5,187
0 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>Fall 2001
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 3,716
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 1,005
Number of wait-listed students admitted 0
Total Class Size 5,540
0 % of Class came from the wait list.</p>

<p>For Fall 1998 to 2000 they say they use a wait list - but they provide no data on how many applicants were on it , or how many, if any were admitted.</p>

<p>From the available data, it does not seem that they have made much use of their wait list in the past. You might want to contact Admissions and ask them if they intend to go to the wait list this year and what your chances are.

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<p>I do not know what happened to the previous years, but I just got off the waitlist of Umich...</p>