<p>Based on previous years, the class yield should be announced by the end of this week and if the WL is activated, for the first round, the first students should start to be contacted late this week and the official letters will be mailed next week. A good bunch of people will be released from the WL by the end of next week. Those remaining will move to the next round. I think if they did not plan to accept anybody, they would have announced it by now, as MIT and UChicago did, so there is hope. If you receive calls yea or nay, please state what state/country you are so others have an idea of geographic distribution.</p>
<p>If the yield is almost exactly 80% and Harvard wants a class size of 1661 (the average of the last 4 years), then they’ll take 35 off the wait-list. Probably Z-list a bunch more. This doesn’t bode well for any of us.</p>
<p>ProudDad16, it is not a real 80% of the whole class because they expect about 92% from EA, they usually get more than 90% from the internationals which represent 10% of the class, and the rest is the RD. I assume it went up to 80% from 75.9% last year, because of the EA portion of the class that is expected to be so high.</p>
<p>80%, yikes. That should mean 40-50 students accepted, assuming not everybody in off the waitlist takes their spot. And I was really hoping for a 100+ waitlist year. Oh well. Any idea how many were waitlisted?</p>
<p>It’s starting to look a lot like Georgetown… </p>
<p>The only thing about that 80% number is that I haven’t seen it reported anywhere else and there is a big difference (about 20-25 students per percentage point of yield) between 80 and about 80. At 78.5%, it starts to look like 75-80 off the list. My advice: don’t let the hype get too crazy before the numbers are official–anecdotal, unconfirmed, hearsay is never a good basis for judgment. That said, don’t get too excited; it may be time to fall a little more deeply in love where you’ve deposited. Best of luck to everyone! Why not 35 CC admits in a few weeks?</p>
<p>Matthewcq2 - Well the report was quoting Faust directly from an event in NYC celebrating H’s 375th so it seems pretty legit.</p>
<p>Ana1 - You are right that it can be broken down so that the yield for RD is lower, but bottom line is .80*2032=1625.6. So there will be slots available but not the large amount people here were hoping for.</p>
<p>Okay, I was a little over the top questioning the validity of the source, the point is that it would be tremendously easy to report a 79.1% yield as 80%; the source states also that Faust made the announcement on May 3, meaning not all replies (a la the fact that people actually do use mail–not all, not many, but a few) are in. I’m only trying to point out (now that CC has inevitably done the totally reasonable and in fact necessary reining in) that 80% on May 3 in a speech is different from 80.1% and 1627/2032 on May 12 from the admissions office. Certainly my fault, point taken and hopefully my own clarified.</p>
<p>I called the admissions office yesterday, and they said that official yield would be released either at the end of this week or at the beginning of next. I suppose now we play the waiting game! Good luck to everyone, and let’s see some dreams come true!</p>
<p>Oh gosh, I wonder the yield is so high when Fitzsimmons expected there to be a lot of people taken off the waitlist this year. Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Hey guys. Today someone told me that if fewer than 50 students are taken off the waitlist, then unhooked waitlistees have no hope. I was dismayed to hear this. Is this true? Should I give up on Harvard now? I’m not a legacy and I don’t have anyone pulling for me. Are the only people to get off the WL hooked?</p>
It claims so, but no college really is. It can get an idea how much money your parents make by the stuff you put down in your app, or in case you didn’t make clear, I bet somewhere in your update, you could have stated that. Who knows whether they will contact the FA office?</p>
<p>Harvard’s peers have already begun reporting record-high yields and won’t be taking any off the waitlist (MIT, Stanford). It’s probable that Harvard’s will also be very high, so it’s unlikely that it will be taking any off the waitlist.</p>
<p>^Really? I assume that Harvard would have a high number of cross-admits with its peer schools. So, if its peer schools have record high yields, it seems to me that that would lead to a lower yield at Harvard.</p>
<p>It’s true that they have a lot of cross-admits, but there are probably fewer cross-admits this year since H and P re-started early programs. Even though MIT doesn’t have SCEA, all its main competitors (HYPS) do, so MIT effectively has SCEA as well. Consequently, both MIT and Stanford have reported jumps of 3+ percentage points in their yields, which is a big difference for a single year. I have a feeling that HYP will also report higher yields.</p>
<p>Just called and was told they are taking people off the list for sure. But the numbers are not known. So hope for the best everyone. Hopefully, the peers’ over-enrolled is a good indicator of the shortage for Harvard!!!</p>