<p>Hey I was waitlisted, so please join me in my confused excitement. Hey how are the rest of you feeling? Anyone turning down the offer? anyone know the waitlist acceptance rate?</p>
<p>Though we were waitlisted we should still be grateful to be considered by a school like penn…</p>
<p>–Best of Outcomes–</p>
<p>I'm not going to stay on the list for a myriad of reasons. Best of luck to you! I admire your optimism</p>
<p>Good luck fellow waitlisters! I am a waitlister myself and it SUCKS because penn is, by far, my number one choice. Today, however, I got accepted to princeton. So I don't know what to do. I've never even VISITED princeton or even really looked at their majors for what I want...I applied just SO randomly and last minute...it all makes no sense.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to, for now, stay on the waitlist because I <3 Penn so much. If something at princeton jumps out at me, I'll take myself off, but penn is still my numero uno.</p>
<p>i got waitlisted too..... but i found a statistic in the princeton review last year.. id like someone to confirm or deny because it would really help.</p>
<p>the princeton review claims univ of pennsylvania accepts 85% of their waitlist. </p>
<p>since im waitlisted too.. it would totally rock if someone could confirm or deny this because i tried looking for the stat myself but i couldn't find anything on my own.</p>
<p>thanx!</p>
<p>if that's true that's FREAKING AWESOME</p>
<p>I think Penn is going to rely heavily on the waitlist to manage yield, so gl guys!</p>
<p>85% seems pretty unrealistic for a waitlist acceptance rate...</p>
<p>Is there any way possible to confirm or deny this statistic, or at least that it came from Princeton Review? </p>
<p>I'd honestly be delighted just to see it coming from any credible source.</p>
<p>Edit: Now that I think about it, it seems more likely that UPenn accepts 85 waitlistees (or less) rather than 85% of the entire waitlist. No way to really know, at least from perusing the web for the last few hours.</p>
<p>I think last year they didn't take any from the waitlist because yield was unexpectedly high and they wound up with 100 more students than they planned for which crowded dorms and food courts and what not...</p>
<p>I hope they don't have the same problem this year. I really want to get lifted off the waitlist . . .</p>
<p>85% is just ridiculous. they even wrote in their letter, we accept "very few" people off of our waitlist.</p>
<p>waitlists really vary from year to year since people might look at previous years' waitlsits and decided to all be on it, thereby decreasing the waitlist acceptance rate. but good luck to everyone</p>
<p>well i checked again and it definitely is 85 PERCENT and not 85 PEOPLE but i have a 2003 version of princeton review, so it is possible this could have changed. i know it seems like a lot that's why i asked. but i did find some other interesting info:</p>
<p>Application Volume Set Records in 2005-2006</p>
<p>Selective colleges and universities across the U.S. saw significant growth in their applicant pools this year. The University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale all saw a record high number of applications come in during the 2005-2006 application season. The University of Pennsylvania received 20,350 applications in its regular round, up by 8 per cent from the year before. Brown received 15,871 regular applications, up by 6.7 per cent from last year. Dartmouth received approximately 14,000 regular decision applications, up by about 10 per cent from the previous year. Stanford received 22,223 applications, 10 per cent more than last year. Duke received 19,282 applications about 11 applications for every seat it has available for freshmen in fall 2006.</p>
<p>Observers cite the usual reasons for this growth: increased recruitment by individual colleges and universities; a growing trend by high school students to submit multiple applications; and demographic trends that are creating a larger applicant pool.</p>
<p>Schools May Issue More Waitlist Decisions This Spring</p>
<p>One consequence of changing patterns in college application volume is that schools are no longer sure about their "yield" the percentage of applicants they can expect to accept admissions offers. Thats a problem, because an incorrect estimate of what yield to expect can mean a school winds up with too many or too few freshmen. Last year, for example, the University of Pennsylvania found itself with an on-campus housing crisis when an unexpectedly high percentage of applicants accepted admissions offers. As a result, the University has said it will err on the side of caution this year, starting off with a conservative number of admission offers and making greater use of the waitlist to round out its enrollment. Other schools are expected to take a similarly cautious approach in making admission offers this spring.</p>
<p>i found it on this website:
<a href="http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/feb152006.asp#college%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/feb152006.asp#college</a> </p>
<p>there's more to the article if you want to read.</p>
<p>i also found this in an article in newsweek called "the new college game" which was published last year: </p>
<p>Finessing the wait list: In January, a report by the National Association for College Admission Counseling reached the unsurprising conclusion that the number of students on wait lists appears to be growing at a faster pace than in previous decades. The survey said 70 percent of admissions officers say they admitted fewer than 20 percent of those on their lists.</p>
<p>But the expanding wait lista maneuver to make sure colleges fill every available revenue-producing spacediffers greatly from school to school. Some Ivies admit almost nobody on the wait list, but some selective schools, like Georgetown, take many. Local zoning laws prohibit Georgetown from growing larger, so it always admits relatively few applicants in the first round to avoid overcrowding. There has been room for about 100 wait-listees nearly every year.</p>
<p>well thats some good news if your waitlisted at georgetown too</p>