UMass Amherst Class of 2015 Acceptance Thread

notrichenough
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:49:26 +0000

so slightly less than 8% were accepted off the wait list.

Well, it only means 8% accepted. It doesn’t tell you how many students were offered a spot off of the wait list and then turned it down. Maybe they had to go through 1200 kids on the waiting list to get those 100 acceptances, we don’t know.

Given that the number of students accepting a spot on the wait list was 6-11x the previous two years, one wonders how many students who accepted a WL spot were really serious about it. I wonder why the number increased so dramatically.