<p>dungareedoll - seems to be a problem everywhere. I suspect with the increase in number of applications, the admissions are also being spread out further. So if your school was receiving 4 admissions in a college in the past, it is being cut down to 2 so they choose some student from a school they have nt picked before.</p>
<p>The waitlist is a lottery for Harvard. They have something like 800 or more (someone on the waitlist thread was making the estimate based on a facebook waitlist group) but have identified only 10-15 spaces to be filled.</p>
<p>[High</a> yield for Class of ?15 | Harvard Gazette](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/high-yield-for-class-of-’15-2/]High”>High yield for Class of ’15 – Harvard Gazette)</p>