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05-20-2008, 08:01 PM
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#946 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: OH Gender: Male
Threads: 127
Posts: 1,512
| updating Occidental, Harvard, and Yale
ACTIVE WAITLISTS*
Amherst(to take 15)
Beloit College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Brown (only one report so far)
Caltech
Case Western
Clemson University
College of William and Mary
College of Wooster
Columbia
Connecticut College
Cornell (Hotel Administration)
Duke (Apparently quite active)
Emerson
Emory
Fairfield
Franklin and Marshall College
Georgetown University (SFS & College)
George Washington
Hamilton
Harvard (take at least 200, mostly done)
James Madison University
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette College
Miami (FL)
Middlebury
MIT(35)
Mount Holyoke
NYU (and Stern)
Northeastern
Northwestern
Oberlin (CAS)
Penn (CAS only? unless someone has heard otherwise..)
Pomona (to take 15-20)
Princeton (To take 90; started calling)
Quinnipiac
Reed (10)
Skidmore
Smith
Swarthmore (to take 15-20, started calling)
Syracuse
Trinity College (CT)
Trinity University
Tufts (only Int and Engineering, so far, they do not know whether they will have to go the waiting list or not.
Tulane
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Miami
University of Pennsylvania (will take ~90)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Richmond
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Villanova
Wake Forest
Washington University
Washington & Lee
Whitman (sending emails on Friday)
Williams
Yale (take ~45, mostly done)
*INACTIVE WAITLISTS*
Carleton (say freshman class is full now, may have a very small number of spots in the next several weeks)
Carnegie Mellon University
Colby College
Dartmouth (keeping short list, although someone posted on this thread on 5/16 about friend of their daughter getting in off the waitlist)
Lehigh
Macalester (overenrolled for now)
Occidental
Rice University
Scripps College
Stanford (for now, although keeping a short list on extended waitlist)
University of Virginia (overenrolled for now)
Ursinus
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05-20-2008, 08:11 PM
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#947 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2008
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| Bryn Mawr College "do anticipate having a few openings in the Class of 2012 between now and the end of June." | |
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05-20-2008, 08:30 PM
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#948 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Threads: 8
Posts: 155
| the day before yesterday, my son's schoolmate got offered a place at wake forest, and he declined. yesterday, another schoolmate was offered a slot at wake, and he had until 3 today to accept. he accepted. | |
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05-20-2008, 08:40 PM
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#949 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Threads: 5
Posts: 70
| anyone heard about colgate? | |
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05-20-2008, 08:49 PM
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#950 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Threads: 0
Posts: 12
| I was in the highest priority waitlist in Umich,but it seems a large number of people are also in this catagory. still waiting.... | |
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05-20-2008, 08:53 PM
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#951 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
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| any updates from Emory? | |
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05-20-2008, 10:13 PM
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#952 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2008
Threads: 2
Posts: 23
| My daughter has been in " highest priority waitlist" in Umich too, her several friends have been waitlisted in Umich ,but they are not in this " highest priority group", she is still waiting. | |
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05-20-2008, 10:17 PM
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#953 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Threads: 29
Posts: 134
| Rice's waitlist is somewhat active. They took seven people:
In April, we requested permission to place your name on the waiting list as an alternate for Rice's class of 2012. We were pleased by your positive response and I am writing to update you on our current situation. Since May 1, seven students have been offered admission from the waiting list, and at present, the class is full.
In our earlier correspondence we indicated that we would close down Rice's waiting list on June 30. As you may have read in the newspaper and other media sources, there is an unusually high number of wait list offers going out from many of our peer institutions. Because of the lack of stability among the nation's most selective schools, Rice has decided to extend the life of the waiting list to July 15.
To update us on your current desire to remain on the waiting list or withdraw from it, please reply online with your login id by May 30, 2008.
Sincerely,
Julie M. Browning
Dean for Undergraduate Enrollment | |
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05-21-2008, 05:15 AM
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#954 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 5
Posts: 327
| I don't know about Harvard being mostly done. My friend got in yesterday. | |
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05-21-2008, 08:19 AM
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#955 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Singapore Gender: Male
Threads: 12
Posts: 364
| Dartmouth is active. | |
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05-21-2008, 09:14 AM
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#956 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Threads: 9
Posts: 57
| Elite Colleges Reach Deeper into Waitlists (Wall Street Journal)
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05-21-2008, 09:17 AM
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#957 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Threads: 24
Posts: 1,464
| That 800 number at Uwisconsin is unbelievable....How do you manage that yield???
Very curious to see what happens at UMich as well; just curious given their strange year....... | |
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05-21-2008, 10:07 AM
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#958 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Threads: 5
Posts: 546
| From WSJ article: Quote:
The wait-list bonanza isn't because colleges have more slots available for students -- in fact, overall enrollment levels at many schools remained the same as last year.
Instead, colleges this year faced more uncertainty in the applications process. For one thing, there's a growing population of high-school seniors -- many of whom submit applications to multiple schools. But for highly selective schools, what really affected the process was the move by two Ivy League schools to end their early-admissions programs. Also at play were policy changes that made more financial aid available to middle- and upper-class students.
"It was certainly a year in which there was more uncertainty than I've experienced in over 30 years in admissions," says Bill Fitzsimmons, Harvard's dean of admissions and financial aid.
| The uncertainty led to an abundance of caution at a number of the top schools. As a result, an additional 200 taken from waitlists at harvard & princeton probably resulted 500 more spots opening up at other schools. When H&P, et al, digest the data from this year, much of that uncertainty will be discounted next year. HS class of 09 keep this in mind. Next year won't be as generous in terms of getting off of waitlists. OTOH, more should be gaining outright admission. | |
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05-21-2008, 10:13 AM
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#959 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: AR Gender: Male
Threads: 28
Posts: 1,129
| Friend got in MIT yesterday.
Another friend got in Duke two days ago. | |
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05-21-2008, 10:14 AM
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#960 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Threads: 4
Posts: 35
| yay, cuRRent! | |
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