<p>What is the next step?</p>
<p>Also, does anybody know how many people got accepted from the waitlist last year?</p>
<p>I have the same question. so...BUMP</p>
<p>(WL'ed at Harvard, Yale, AND MIT. Lucky me.)</p>
<p>And how many people are on the waitlist? Is there some priority to the waitlist? Or is it just a big pile and they'd draw from it randomly?</p>
<p>i'm waitlisted too... GO WAITLISTEES!!! :) no, there's no priority in the waitlist; they'll consider every candidate in the waitlisted group when they need to accept someone... btw, i think there are fewer waitlisted ppl at yale than at harvard, just by looking at the number of posts in this thread and a similar thread at harvard's forum...</p>
<p>Apparently Yale didn't even touch the waitlist last year because they had enough people matriculate. Hopefully that is not the trend this year too...</p>
<p>I totally forgot there was even such a thing as a waitlist. I was ready to be either accepted or denied. Being stuck in the middle sucks.</p>
<p>same here. After i didn't see 'congratulations' i thought i was rejected. Then I read the letter and found out I was waitlisted. Any chance for this year ?</p>
<p>i'm going to ask them to take me off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Do not lose your hope.
According to its news release that I posted separately, Yale would likely take a lot of people off the waitlist this year.</p>
<p>About 1,000 students -- approximately 4 percent of the total applicant pool -- were waitlisted this year, Shaw said, who added that he would rather take people off the waitlist than admit too many students. The University is aiming for a class of 1,310 students.</p>
<p>"We're just being conservative," Shaw said. "We're also anticipating that if we're a little bit shy, we have a strong waiting list of kids that would love to be here."</p>
<p>Yale admitted a smaller number of applicants this year than in 2004, in part because Shaw said he expected the overall yield rate to increase slightly this year. While 68 percent of admitted students chose to come to Yale last year, Shaw said he was hoping for a 70 percent yield rate this year -- especially with Yale's new financial aid policy taking effect for the class of 2009</p>