<p>Hello guys!
Congratulations to the accepted, my deepest sympathy to the rejected (but come to think of it, I am sure there is a hella great university waiting for you somewhere, so...)</p>
<p>...but what about us, the on-the-fence waitlisted?</p>
<p>Question #1...has anyone found statistics on how many people are in the waitlisted pool?</p>
<h1>2: To my understanding, if any applicant happened to reject Harvard, the candidates for the open spot will be reevaluated all over again - until then, may you add some extra information to your application that could help you in this process?</h1>
<h1>3: How do you proceed in terms of acceptances to other colleges? let's get real, there is a chance that nobody from the waitlist will get admitted at all. Can you postpone committing to a college till June?</h1>
<p>Any experience, articles, case evidence etc. appreciated!</p>
<p>& Heads up, friends...I am sure Harvard is an amazing place...but not the only place. After all, it's up to you to brighten up whichever space you choose for yourself x].</p>
<p>I don’t know how many are in the waitlist pool, but they will DEFINITELY be taking upwards of 200 off the waitlist, so just continue to show interest, and maybe you’ll be one of the lucky ones. </p>
<p>Here’s what you do when you’re wait-listed. Tell Harvard you want to stay on the waiting-list. Then send in your enrollment deposit to your second choice school BEFORE THE MAY FIRST DEADLINE. This is essential. You need to commit to a school. Midway through May, probably, you’ll get a call from Harvard saying yea or nay. If yea and you do want to go, accept your place in the class and tell the school to which you’ve already committed that you have been accepted off of another school’s waiting list and are very sorry but you will not be attending, after all. You will probably not get your $300 enrollment deposit back, but that’s life…</p>
<p>Congratulations on getting wait-listed. I wish you all the best and hope you get in!</p>
<p>thanks for the info amplifiar842.waitlisted too here.How many do u think that are waitlisted?i am quesing about 1000…How are u sure that are going to take 200 of the waitlist?i hope they do so…</p>
<p>They will utilize their wait list pretty heavily because they admitted fewer than they actually want in the class (for example, last year, they admitted about 1100, but they really want about 1250 in the class, I think). I don’t know if I would say a thousand are on the wait-list. I personally would not venture over five hundred, but last year, about one fifty were taken off the list. This year, it should be more.</p>
<p>No, no they take kids over the number of spots they technically have because they know they will not have a 100% yield. Last year the yield was around 70% and I think it has been a little under that in past years.</p>
<p>A girl at my schools dad is on the Board of Trustees at Harvard and is on the Board of Admissions and she told me last year they took something in the like mid-200s off the waitlist and they are expecting to definitely take that, if not more, off the wait list this year. I don’t know how many are on the waitlist this year, but I do know they try to replace the kids that decided to go somewhere else with someone similar to them, in order to keep the balance.</p>
<p>“I don’t know how many are on the waitlist this year, but I do know they try to replace the kids that decided to go somewhere else with someone similar to them, in order to keep the balance.”</p>
<p>This close to Harvard and it’s the one time in your life you actually WANT to be exactly like someone else in the applicant pool instead of standing out…ironic haha</p>
<p>yeah they accepted 2,046 applicants expected a little upwards of the 76% rate at which kids accepted attend. Fitsimmons said for a Boston Globe interview that he anticipates taking more than 200 kids from the waiting list.</p>
<p>um, usually when schools admit students they don’t admit thinking that there will be 100% yield simply because that doesn’t happen. harvard admitted enough this year to cover up to an 81% yield, not 100%, and hence 500 people will not be taken off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Ah, just after I posted this I noticed the larger thread in the general Harvard forum. Well sorry for spamming then.</p>
<p>Amplifiar842, thank you for being informative and very supportive. And to everyone waitlisted…if Harvard is what you want, let’s keep it going, guys. Personally, I am happily depositing the check for my second choice college, but there’s no need to lose hope.</p>
<p>“No, no they take kids over the number of spots they technically have because they know they will not have a 100% yield. Last year the yield was around 70% and I think it has been a little under that in past years.”</p>
<p>You would think that, but actually, they expected nearly 100% last year and so let in fewer, acknowledging that they would use the wait list heavily. The yield rate barely changed from previous years. But they were just being cautious, anyway. Trust me, I’ve done my research :P</p>