<p>cut-n-paste from the Waitlist thread:</p>
<p>Some numbers from the 2011 admissions round:</p>
<p>PA 3186 applicants, 14% admitted, 79% yield rate
PEA 2600 applicants, 19% admitted, 69% yield rate
SPS 1402 applicants, 16% admitted, 68% yield rate</p>
<p>Yield rate refers to the percentage of admitted kids who actually end up enrolling, e.g., PA had a yield rate of 79% last year, which means 21% of the accepted kids decided to go elsewhere.</p>
<p>To get off the WL, the school will have to have over-estimated their yield rate.</p>
<p>Someone posted on another thread that last year no one came off the PA WL. PA under-estimated their yield, then had to scramble to find beds for 10 kids.</p>