<p>About 20 - 30 students will be taken off the waitlist at this point in time:</p>
<p>“Stanford will be admitting a small number of students (20-30) from our freshman wait list later this month. Students will initially be notified by way of email and we will communicate with all students holding a space on our waitlist at that time. We are no longer considering any new materials (e.g. letters of recommendation), so students holding a space on the waitlist should refrain from submitting any such materials.”</p>
<p>And I suppose the number of students getting off the extended waitlist will depend on the number of students declining the offer, which will be very close to zero.</p>
<p>If you don’t make the first 20-30, then it’s almost impossible to get in.</p>
<p>Not necessarily. I’d actually say your better chance to get off the extended waitlist isn’t to hope someone in the top 30 turns them down, but to hope someone who was already admitted gets pulled off the waitlist at one of their more preferred schools.</p>
<p>You’d think there would be more in the latter category than the former.</p>
<p>@Harvard17: I don’t think they’ve come out with a number yet, but last year they put 1,354 on the waitlist and 934 accepted a spot. So since 998 were offered a place on the waitlist this year, one can guess that ~688 accepted. </p>
<p>Also, just something to think about:
Last year on May 7th they said they would admit 80 from the waitlist. They ended up admitting 127 total. 20-30 might not be the be-all end-all number.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot figsfly! If that indeed is the case, this translates to an acceptance rate of 3-4% (assuming that 20-30 kids are selected out of a batch of nearly 688)!</p>
<p>i know that a lot of schools don’t offer financial aid of any kind to waitlisted students. if stanford is one of these schools, that could really affect the waitlist situation because any student who is waitlisted at stanford has probably already committed to a school that has given them good merit scholarships or financial aid which may make them need to turn down an admissions offer due to their financial situation, letting kids come off the extended waitlist to fill their spot (my friend had to do this for wash u because they gave no aid off the waitlist)</p>
<p>Your waitlist status does not affect your financial aid package. If you’re accepted, your financial aid package will be the same as if you were accepted via regular decision or early action.</p>
<p>i bet we hear something by friday. they announced around the middle of the month last year and it seems like if they are only pulling 20 to 30 off that they probably can decide pretty quickly and have decisions out by the 14 or 15 like their transfer decisions.</p>
<p>I actually think we might hear by tomorrow–the waitlist announcement was posted on May 7th both last year and this year, and tomorrow (May 12th) is the day Stanford sent out emails to waitlistees about their status last year.</p>