Ethics of Huge Waitlists

sushiritto
Fri, 13 May 2022 20:48:15 +0000

mtmind:

At UM, the percentage in 2020 wasn’t too far out of line with a few other recent years. For the five most recent years, the percentages admitted off the waitlist were <1%, 13%, 2%, 7%, and 11%.

Again, I disagree and that wasn’t even the intent of my OP. My OP was that Michigan keeps an enormous WL and offers relatively few acceptances. Not about WL variability.

The previous 5 years:

2016-2017 36/3970 = <1%
2015-2016 90/4,512 = 2%
2014-2015 91/4,457 = 2%
2013-2014 89/3,523 = 3%
2012-2013 74/4,010 = 2%

So, what I see is that 7 out of the last 10 years, WL acceptance was right around 2%-ish. And one year (2020, the highest %) was certainly an anomaly.

And considering the significant increases in the number of apps over the past 10 years, roughly doubling, I think it’s been pretty “steady eddy.” But that’s just my opinion.