<p>According to Harvard Crimson, "The conservative number of admitted students means that it should be another good year for wait-listed students, said Fitzsimmons."</p>
<p>Will Fitzsimmons be right or just smoke?</p>
<p>Unless you are an admissions officer they won’t divulge any information, more than what they already are saying “hundreds and hundreds are on the waitlist” before May 1.</p>
<p>After May 1 they might post an article of how high the yield was this year.</p>
<p>But if you recall the article about last year before May 1 the Fitz anticipated taking 150-175 off the waitlist whereas today he anticipates taking more than 200.</p>
<p>I emailed a couple of friends of mine in Harvard(students not adcoms!) and asked if they had heard anything about the Yield and they told me that they wud ask and tell me… However, I seriously doubt there are going to say what their Yield is, even unofficially… Can anyone who knows an adcom in Harvard ask him to comment on this year’s Yield? Please understand that there are many wl students who anxiously wait for the Yield so as to know if there will be room for waitlisted students! Any information wud be really helpful!</p>
<p>1991, personally, I do not believe you get any kind of edge in knowing this piece of information before May 1, just as decision letters are sent out on March 31 (even if many students are overly anxious and camp outside by their mailboxes, the letters still arrive when they are supposed to, not earlier). With this said I hope you understand that patience is a virtue and wait till they release the official yield instead of getting others to pull strings and only getting some vague and inoffical number which in the end most likely would be proven to be misleading or wrong.</p>
<p>Wait and see, even if you get to know the yeild today it’s not going to help your chances of admission, which I can assume is your best case scenario. The wait list got its name for some purpose, don’t you agree?</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>