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Accepted students have until May 1st to make their decision, so Admissions will not have a firm number or start going through their waitlist until after May 2nd. In past years, waitlisted students have started to hear around mid-May. </p>
<p>I don’t think that Wait List will be closed without anyone getting off from there.</p>
<p>Did anyone do their CC research about when people started hearing last year? Was it around the 10th? I’m personally choosing to remain hopeful, even though it’s a total long shot. You just never know. Admissions will be turning their attention to the waitlist once the numbers are in tomorrow. </p>
<p>DD met many students at Quaker Days a few weeks back. Many of those students were also accepted to Yale. The majority of those kids committed to UPENN. Roughly 4-5. Many more students were headed out to Palo Alto to visit Stanford last week. I’m sure they will be seduced by what that school has to offer. There are also kids on the Accepted to Yale 2018 FB page & they are deciding to go to other schools. I am not trying to give you guys any false hope but students do make other choices! Not sure if that helps or makes things worse!!</p>
<p>Are you guys doing something extra-new things to add to your profile in order to improve your chances? Maybe letters, additional recs, new SATs or Toefls, new accomplishments or something else? I am really worried because I am doing almost nothing 
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<p>@Sophie1295 Yes I did receive an email.</p>
<p>No additional recs or testing should be sent. Besides a letter of intention to stay and extraordinary recent accomplishments (if any), you should do nothing. The fact is, Yale issues its admissions offers, assuming NO movement off of the waitlist at all. @Eljui7, you should frankly move on, assuming nothing more from Yale. This is the only rational step. No one on the Waitlist should expect to be offered admission – that’s the hard fact of the matter. The only way people will get offers is if Yale underestimates the expected number of matriculants from the RD and EA offers of admission. </p>
<p>I did send in a few updates and recs. It didn’t take much effort and I have nothing to lose so why not? There are however many external factors over which we have no control. So, I agree with T264E -we shouldn’t be expecting anything at all and focus on the colleges we have been admitted at. </p>
<p>Guys, to respond to New Haven mom, they accept a certain number of kids after they’ve predicted their yield. It will probably be northwards of 70% this year, and they know that. A declined offer =/= a kid taken off of the waitlist. I’m assuming that this is common knowledge, but you never know.</p>
<p>@MikeNY5 et al: Yale admitted a total of 1,935 students from the SCEA and RD rounds this year. If 70% of those students accept Yale’s offer, that would mean that 1345 students would be matriculating for the class of 2018. Currently Yale college has a total of about 1360 beds, so it would be almost a full house with spots for about 15 students from the waitlist. FWIW, last year’s yield was 68.3%.</p>
<p>How can we know the yield percantage of this year? It is 2nd of May</p>
<p>@gibby Do the college admisiions accept exactly 1360 freshman applicants? Can you tell me also the number of admitted applicants in last year? Thank you</p>
<p>I don’t know these wait lists are like saying ‘well we MAYBE want you if the kids we really wan’t don’t come here’ . S waitlisted at a couple of schools - we took our business elsewhere - wouldn’t you rather want to go to a school that really wants you?? Personally I feel like its a kick to the curb, but good luck if you decide on that route.</p>
<p>^ I know that we wait listed students are back ups, but getting the opportunity to study at Yale is hard to let go. Assuming that we even make it, as getting off the wait list is equivalent to winning a lottery :P</p>
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The slots projected each year vary – it depends on many factors. If too many people accept Yale’s offer, then the Class of 2019 may only look to matriculate 1300 or 1270 students. </p>
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Indeed, some people feel this way and it’s their perogative. But the WL is deep enough to fill each slot w/grateful students. Plus, once here, no one has any clue if they were a SCEA admit, a Likely Letter recipient, a vanilla RD admit or a WL admit. It doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Thank you T26E4! Does anyone have a sense of when Yale will announce whether they will be going to their waitlist? Or do folks just begin hearing if they are? </p>
<p>^^ Last year, as far as I can tell, Yale did not announce the yield for the Class of 2017 until September 23rd, so I imagine they might do the same for the Class of 2018. Here’s the article from last year: <a href=“Steady yield rate for Class of 2017 - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/09/20/web-yheadline-here-57/</a></p>
<p>Penn’s yield is 66% so I’m guessing Yale’s would be close to 70% , if not more.</p>
<p>any other guesses of what the Yale yield rate might look like this year (based on people you know, what you’ve heard, etc)? </p>
<p>@heyhey2: to even call that exercise a “guess” is to denigrate the definition. That’s not guessing, that’s picking a no. out of the hat. No one knows. </p>