| I believe the waitlist is smaller than many of you assume. The Dean would not refer to the waitlist as having many hundreds of students if it included 1500 - 2000 students. To me, many hundreds perhaps qualifies for 1000, but that's just an opinion ...
The only factor which would drive the yield up this year is the new aid initiative. However, not many on the board who are attending Harvard indicated that their package from Harvard was the deciding factor which influenced their decision. Harvard has always given good aid. I honestly believe that Harvard will take many students from the waitlist this year.
Does anyone know whether the Crimson will release details concerning the yield? Harvard should have a good inclination as to whether it will need to resort to the waitlist by next week, right? |