<p>I found out today that I was waitlisted and was wondering (as I'm sure many others are too) what would be the smartest thing(s) to do over the next month to maximize the chances of being offered admission in May?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>even i have been waitlisted.
i actually want to know this : i have some good stats (2230 sat1 1560 sat 2, 4.4 gpa, excellent essays & recs) and i gopt rejected from stanford, ucb, duke (with aid) and mit
now i have been waitlisted at hmc.
since hmc is a very small college with a small applicant pool are they waitlisting us bcoz they don't want to disappoint us after we expressed so much interest in their college or is it genuinely because of other usual reasons like yield rate, uncertainity etc...</p>
<p>got waitlisted too....
I'd rather they reject me..</p>
<p>got waitlisted too... sigh...
oh well, since only 200 are expected to enroll it's hard to say how many if any will get off the wait list</p>
<p>"even i have been waitlisted.
i actually want to know this : i have some good stats (2230 sat1 1560 sat 2, 4.4 gpa, excellent essays & recs) and i gopt rejected from stanford, ucb, duke (with aid) and mit
now i have been waitlisted at hmc.
since hmc is a very small college with a small applicant pool are they waitlisting us bcoz they don't want to disappoint us after we expressed so much interest in their college or is it genuinely because of other usual reasons like yield rate, uncertainity etc..."</p>
<p>What is your hook? What do you wish to bring to HMC? Not everything is about numbers.</p>
<p>The applicant pool is relatively small, but very self-selective. The average HMC applicant has better stats than the average MIT applicant. Why? Because HMC effectively cuts off the bottom part of the gaussian distribution by being named "Harvey Mudd" and being a school that only people who are really interested in tech stuff actually know about. HMC does not exist in popular culture so there aren't as many wannabe/fantasizing applicants.</p>
<p>Mudd is upping the numbers a bit and they probably want applicants to fall back on if they do not get the expected yield. I don't think they are playing mind games.</p>