<p>Hi - Does anyone know how many people, if any, Yale typically takes off the waitlist. I am wondering whether to even bother hoping....</p>
<p>I just got my call that I got accepted off of the waitlist</p>
<p>I also got my call today.</p>
<p>hmm it looks like i'm 99.99% not getting off the waitlist if people are already getting calls. that sucks...i really wanted to go to yale more than anything. did you guys do anything after you found out you were waitlisted in the way of sending letters, etc? also, are you guys going to go to yale now that you were accepted?</p>
<p>I have a close alumni who contacted the the admissions office frequently and I also sent a letter of intent detailing any new information as well as how I will spending the rest of the summer.</p>
<p>I found out that i was accepted off the waiting list today. It took me completely by surprise. It's going to be really hard for me to choose. I had already identified myself with Northwestern and made plans to go there. Both schools both have excellent science programs.</p>
<p>and to answer the question above, apparently this is the 'first batch' of wait list acceptances. I think that if some of the wait list kids that were accepted decide not to enroll, they'll go to the 'second batch' students and so on. But the decision deadline is may 25th, so it might take a while</p>
<p>Benlong89: FYI, Northwestern is #28 overall in the recent COHE ranking of research universities. </p>
<p>In the individual department rankings, 4 of Yale's science departments are ranked #1 in the nation (and many others in the top five). For comparison's sake, 4 of Harvard's, 3 of Stanford's, 2 of MIT's, 1 of Princeton's, and none of Northwestern's departments are ranked #1.</p>
<p>TOP RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES IN THE 2005 FACULTY SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY INDEX (COHE)</p>
<p>The 2005 index compiles overall institutional rankings on 166 large research universities.</p>
<p>Large Research Universities </p>
<p>Rank Institution Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index Number of programs </p>
<p>1 Harvard U. +1.68 38
2 California Institute of Technology +1.59 19
2 U. of California at San Francisco +1.59 15
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology +1.44 26
5 Yale U. +1.35 55
6 Carnegie Mellon U. +1.18 27
7 Washington U. in St. Louis +1.16 33
8 Vanderbilt U. +1.09 48
9 Johns Hopkins U. +1.08 49
10 Duke U. +1.07 52
11 U. of Pennsylvania +1.06 55
12 Princeton U. +1.03 43
12 U. of California at Berkeley +1.03 70
14 U. of Wisconsin at Madison +0.90 83
15 New York U. +0.89 56
15 Stanford U. +0.89 52
17 U. of Washington +0.82 79
18 U. of Virginia +0.81 48
19 State U. of New York at Stony Brook +0.80 41
20 Cornell U. endowed colleges +0.73 68
20 Dartmouth College +0.73 21
22 Emory U. +0.71 41
22 Rice U. +0.71 27
24 Georgia Institute of Technology +0.69 29
25 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill +0.67 56
26 Columbia U. +0.66 59
27 U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor +0.65 74
28 Northwestern U. +0.64 46
28 Pennsylvania State U. +0.64 85
28 U. of California at San Diego +0.64 33</p>
<p>posterX,</p>
<p>Why don't you also give the NRC or US News sciences rankings? They may have flaws but I'd think they are much better than this one you put out. Vanderbilt is better than Berkeley and Stanford? UCSF? I thought that's mostly a med school. There's nothing special about publishing papers (productivity). Even undergrads can publish a few journal articles these day. It's about quality, not quantity.</p>
<p>You didn't even go to Yale. Are you on their payroll?</p>
<p>You are correct that UCSF does not have undergraduates. There are many other rankings out there, of course, but Chronicle's survey is the most recent and statistically valid, with the possible exception of Thomson ISI's highly-regarded ScienceWatch rankings (which have Harvard, Yale and Caltech as the top three universities for the sciences, also with Northwestern not in the top ten). </p>
<p>The US News rankings are based solely on a flawed survey method, and due to that, it has been extensively shown that the largest programs always end up on the top (kind of like how the Mercedes is often cited as the best car and Applebee's as the best restaurant, even though there are clearly better cars and restaurants out there). The NRC's rankings suffer from a similar flaw though not as badly. However, they are 14 years outdated.</p>
<p>"statistically valid"? I don't think you know much about statistics. Can you answer my question? Are you on their payroll? New Haven resident? A clerk in one of their admistractive offices? You've been known to be a troll making ridiculous claims over and over. It's also very strange a non-Yale student/alum would promote Yale in such over the top manner. So I am curious what it is behind your action.</p>
<p>No, I'm not, thanks.</p>
<p>FYI, here are the others in the table of the top 50. </p>
<p>31 U. of Maryland at College Park +0.60 68
32 U. of Southern California +0.57 58
33 U. of Chicago +0.56 40
34 U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign +0.55 71
35 Case Western Reserve U. +0.54 34
36 City U. of New York Graduate Center +0.52 31
37 U. of Iowa +0.46 66
38 Michigan State U. +0.43 76
38 U. of California at Los Angeles +0.43 64
38 U. of California at Santa Barbara +0.43 46
41 U. of California at Davis +0.41 60
41 U. of Kentucky +0.41 50
43 U. of California at Irvine +0.40 36
44 U. of Illinois at Chicago +0.34 43
45 Indiana U. at Bloomington +0.31 62
46 Boston U. +0.30 32
46 Purdue U. +0.30 57
46 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute +0.30 23
46 U. of California at Riverside +0.30 36
50 U. of Texas at Austin +0.28 68</p>
<p>Wow. Congrats to those who got in off the waitlist. </p>
<p>Hey do you think you could chance me? I'm not getting any responses
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=362114%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=362114</a></p>