<p>Hey, </p>
<p>Just a quick question - would S check to see if I was admitted at Princeton??? I am on S’s wait-list and so if they checked and saw that I was in at P would they be less likely to accept me? Could s’s office get access to this information-is this even legal?</p>
<p>Thank you- sorry if I sound a bit intense but Im scared :(</p>
<p>PLEASE HELP</p>
<p>Very likely they have your info, but I am not sure at this point how many they are going to take from the waitlist. The best way to do this is to contact them and give them your info and express your desire to come to Stanford. It might help but I am not too sure. The worst to them is that they take you off the waitlist, and you end up with not coming to Stanford.</p>
<p>Would they only know where else you have gotten in? Would they know where you have sent your deposit? How do they know this information?</p>
<p>They could get the info about where you were admitted, not where you sent the deposit. Not every school matters, only HYP, maybe. We will see if they take anyone who crossed with HYP. To the OP, I am sure they know what you think, and act accordingly.</p>
<p>I disagree with the statement that the admission office cares about this. I rather doubt that it does care. It has no sure way of knowing which student was admitted to what other colleges.</p>
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<p>You? or Stanford?</p>
<p>Stanford’s admission committee (or the admission committee at any other college).</p>
<p>How do you know?</p>
<p>How do you know?</p>
<p>I don’t. That is why I used “could” or “very likely”, instead of speaking for them. And you have to pardon my Pekinglish for not explaining it clearly.</p>
<p>Isn’t it your privacy thing? Do they even have right to find out who admitted you from the universities themselves? I doubt it… Some universities say they will release your info if “a reasonable inquiry is made” like if they want to check if you lied on your application or something along the lines, but finding out if you are cross-admitted somewhere else is not really related to dishonesty etc. They would do this only for personal benefits (wanting to admit non-HYP people) which should not be enough for HYP to release your info (unless you wrote in your app that this waitlist is all you have, and you have been rejected everywhere else). Not even to mention that it would be time consuming to check all this.</p>
<p>Well, this may not be an issue within a few days. With a yield of 73%, they may be right at target or over enroll for this class.</p>
<p>OP: The best thing for you to do is contact Stanford and express your desire to attend there. Send them additional info that may enhance your chances. Thus, whether or not they know you have been admitted to Princeton will not be a factor becasue they will know you want to go to Stanford. Don’t the waitlist letters encourage you to put a deposit down at another college? Afterall, they understand that you can’t be left hanging in the wind with the faint hope Stanford will have room to pull from its waitlist.</p>
<p>The OP wants to go to Yale, instead of Stanford. Sorry, even I know this.</p>
<p>^a 73% yeild makes for 1679 enrollees.</p>
<p>for a target class of 1700, that would put Stanford as admitting 21 or so waitlistees.</p>
<p>which is on par for most ivy league institutions, neh?</p>
<p>Well it’s a plus minus thing… Let’s just wait and see. I would be happy for 21 places.</p>
<p>I think their target is 1650. Which would mean that they overenrolled for the 3rd year in a row.</p>
<p>bluebubbles, they have specified on the website that the target was 1700 this year, I think I saw it on one of the web-pages</p>
<p>^ I read in the Stanford Daily that they are aiming for 1700</p>
<p>OK, excellent! The more the better. Did Stanford give out a lot of aid this year? I was predicting that a lot of accepted students would choose one of the better UCs with a lot of merit aid over Stanford.</p>