Waitlisted & the Statistical Chances of Getting In

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Link to Common Data Set
<a href="http://cfdev.wm.edu/IR/common_dataset.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://cfdev.wm.edu/IR/common_dataset.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>2003
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List..........1534
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................736
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted..........................9</p>

<p>2002
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List...........1854
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................1278
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted..........................42</p>

<p>2001
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............1754
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List......................1168
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted..........................27</p>

<p>2000
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............1991
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List......................735
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.........................28</p>

<p>1999
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............1532
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List......................1136
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.........................132</p>

<p>1998
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............1666
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................1246
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted...........................97</p>

<p>1997
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............1659
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.......................437
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted...........................29</p>

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<p>College hopeful, try calling Dukes administration or admissions. They don't post it on the web and they tell US NEWS NA - No Answer</p>

<p>Duke University
2003
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............NA
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................NA
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted........................NA</p>

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<p>Link to Common Data Set <a href="http://oir.richmond.edu/Databases.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://oir.richmond.edu/Databases.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>2004
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List..........1603
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................536
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.........................99</p>

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<p>Wellesley College has it's Common Data Set info for 1999 thru 2004 behind a password protected link: <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/InstResearch/surveyresults.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.wellesley.edu/InstResearch/surveyresults.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>US News has 2003 Wait List Data
Wellesley College
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 708
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 352
Students enrolled from waiting list: 93</p>

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<p>Link to Common Data Set: <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eire/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.gwu.edu/~ire/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>2003
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List..........1601
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................770
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.......................178</p>

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<p>swarthmore pleaseeee :*(</p>

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<p>richs73cas
thanks for the info on F&M</p>

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<p>UNC-Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>Northeastern University please</p>

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<p>livintolive - see post 86 of this thread for the info on Northeastern you want.</p>

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<p>Common Data Set Link
2004 <a href="http://www.bates.edu/x2294.xml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bates.edu/x2294.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>2004 CDS
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List..........1055
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................253
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted........................109</p>

<p>From US News
2003
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 800
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 300
Students enrolled from waiting list: 0</p>

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<p>Sara306
Gettysburg College
They don't seem to have the Common Data Set Posted.
Here's a link to their Office of Institutional Analysis
<a href="http://www.gettysburg.edu/administration/institutional_analysis/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.gettysburg.edu/administration/institutional_analysis/&lt;/a>
You could e-mail or phone the contact listed for the Common Data Set and the Wait list info. Another place to call would be the admissions office.</p>

<p>US News
Class entering Fall 2003</p>

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

<p>It look like Gettysburg chooses not to provide Wait List info to US News</p>

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<p>Link to Common Data Set
<a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/Admin/institutional_research/cds.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/Admin/institutional_research/cds.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>2004
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List..........NA
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List...................NA
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted......................50
Total Class Size......................................................366
13.6% of Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>2003
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List..........NA
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................NA
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.......................21
Total Class Size......................................................368
5.7% of Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>2002
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List...........NA
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List....................NA
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.......................42
Total Class Size......................................................371
11.3% of Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>2001
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............NA
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List......................NA
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.........................20
Total Class Size......................................................381
5.2% of Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>2000
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............NA
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List......................NA
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.........................51
Total Class Size......................................................367
13.9% of Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>1999
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List............NA
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................NA
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted........................38
Total Class Size......................................................378
10% of Class comes from the wait list</p>

<p>It looks like Swarthmore makes extensive use of the waitlist to fill the classes!!
Good Luck</p>

<p>(This is the first post where I compaired the number of Wait listed students admitted to the total class size- You can check this our for yourself on prior posts by following the links to the Common Data Set for the college and going to Section C First Year First Time "Freshmen" )</p>

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<p>Tufts please...</p>

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<p>Tuft's doesn't have the Common Data Set Posted on the Web and they don't give waitlist info to US News.</p>

<p>USNews
Fall 2003
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: N/A
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: N/A
Students enrolled from waiting list: N/A </p>

<p>N/A - no answer</p>

<p>Call their Admissions office, maybe they can give you an idea of what the chances are, based on their knowledge of prior years.</p>

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<p>UNC - Chapel Hill (thanks in advance!)</p>

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<p>Rice? thanks</p>

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<p>
[quote]
Why not just come out and reject those students? A rejection letter @ least brings closure, whereas, the waitlist extends hope.

[/quote]
agree with you 100%, but that's life. Adcoms feel that the waitlist "softens the blow" of an outright rejection. Many, many people have commented that it would be fairer just to reject, so the student could move on.</p>

<p>BTW Purgatory is not really between heaven and ell. There are two "places" in the afterlife in Catholic theology: hell and heaven. Purgatory (and this is METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING) is the "anteroom" of heaven, and there is a GUARANTEE that you will go from there into the "full" heaven. There is no such guarantee that you will get off the waitlist! This was understood from the beginning: for example, in Dante's "Divine Comedy" there are only two gates - one to Hell and one to Heaven. Passing through the gate of heaven leads to purgatory.</p>

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<p>Office of Institutional Research link
<a href="http://professor.rice.edu/professor/Office_of_Institutional_Research.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://professor.rice.edu/professor/Office_of_Institutional_Research.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Rice has lots of info in their Rice Facts from 1995 to 2003
link to 2003 Rice Facts
<a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Einstresr/ricefacts/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~instresr/ricefacts/index.html&lt;/a>
but it doesn't include wait list info.</p>

<p>US News reports for Fall 2003
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: N/A
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: N/A
Students enrolled from waiting list: 121
Total Class was 715 so 16.9% of the Class Came from the Wait List that year.</p>

<p>Good Luck</p>

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<p>Link to Directors of Institutional Research
<a href="http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/assessment/reports/student_info/dir.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/assessment/reports/student_info/dir.htm&lt;/a>
Page with University North Carolina - Chapel Hill Reports - the Common Data Set does not appear to be posted. There is lots of info here, but a search for "wait list" does not return any thing relevant.
<a href="http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/assessment/reports/student_info/uncch.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/assessment/reports/student_info/uncch.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>US News Reports
For Class Entering Fall 2003
Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 1,671
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: N/A
Students enrolled from waiting list: 209
Total Class 3516 students, so 5.9% of the class came from the Wait List that year.
Good Luck</p>