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04-30-2008, 04:04 PM
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#76 | | Member
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| Has the Crimson written about the number of waitlisted students they feel will be taken from the list this year? several of my son's friends who were waitlisted are very hopeful this year. | 
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04-30-2008, 04:42 PM
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#77 | | Senior Member
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| No, I just checked. I don't think people really should be that optimistic, although I certainly wish we could be. To put it in perspective, I'm assuming the waitlist is probably anywhere between 1,500(Assuming they WL more than Yale and Pton) and 2000 very qualified people. If they have an 81% yield, around 1578 people will get off the waitlist, which leaves around 100 people to be taken off. However, 100/2000 is still only a 5% acceptance rate, and this is among the waitlisted people.
Let's just all hope to get lucky | |
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04-30-2008, 04:48 PM
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| My son's friends feel optimistic at Harvard this year because Harvard didn't have EA, so they feel that students committed to other schools and therefore leaving more room at Harvard for waitlisted students. | |
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04-30-2008, 04:50 PM
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| ^ good point. I really really hope that's the case though (it'd be amazing to get into Harvard). Good luck to your son's friends  | |
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04-30-2008, 04:51 PM
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| Thanks. Good luck to you as well! | |
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04-30-2008, 05:44 PM
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#81 | | Junior Member
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| but...also keep in mind that harvard is trying to control its incoming class size to assure enough freshmen housing | |
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04-30-2008, 06:19 PM
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| also don't forget that this is the HARVARD wait list. | |
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04-30-2008, 06:41 PM
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#83 | | Member
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| I've met 10 or so people who got accepted to Harvard and elsewhere. All but 2 have decided to enroll at Harvard. If this keeps up, the yield rate should be 80%. meaning they'll accept people off the WL. But you know, you gotta check conditions for if n is large enough. | |
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04-30-2008, 06:45 PM
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#84 | | Senior Member
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| Also, let's not forget the Z-list acceptances/people who deferred a year. I doubt those numbers were figured into the 1948 people who were offered admission, as Harvard wants to make the acceptance rate as low as possible.
So.. that's like what, another 20-40 people already in? | |
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04-30-2008, 07:43 PM
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#85 | | Senior Member
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| CNI: Those figures were factored into the 1948 people who were offered admission. | |
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04-30-2008, 07:57 PM
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#86 | | Junior Member
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| 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? | |
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04-30-2008, 08:37 PM
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| hm... since you mentioned financial aid, didn't yale and princeton both counter with similar initiatives? someone even told me that yale's is better. | |
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04-30-2008, 08:39 PM
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| A senior admissions officer at Harvard told me that he will be "very surprised" if Harvard does not resort to the waitlist at all. | |
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04-30-2008, 09:14 PM
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| Yes, they did CNI. The only factor that would more encourage a given student to enroll in Harvard's Class of 2012 over another given student contemplating admission in the Class of 2011 is the improved aid initiative. Otherwise, Harvard's reputation has remained the same: Harvard was and continues to be prestigious. I really think, especially given the choice to drop EA, that Harvard will need to resort to the waitlist. Do you really think that less than 2 in 10 accepted Harvard students will turn down admission for other schools? | |
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04-30-2008, 09:18 PM
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#90 | | Junior Member
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| I do have to say that I have met a higher number of people that I expected who are planning/have turned down harvard.
But it's still the trendsetting college brave enough to introduce the massive financial aid makeover and take away ea(even though i resent harvard for this...lol)
Yet, the yield will still be high, and I predict only a few to get in...maybe? lol | |
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