<p>What are the chances of getting in after being waitlisted. I heard they waitlist most applicants who are not from the east coast</p>
<p>Based on last year’s statistics, the chances of getting in after being waitlisted aren’t bad. 3,281 students were admitted, and the freshman class size was 1,530 students. When RD acceptances are sent out, the acceptances cannot exceed the number of spaces available. Since so many students choose to matriculate at other colleges, Georgetown must draw around 50% of its applicants from its waitlist.</p>
<p>To put it another way, only about 10% of the students who applied last year ended up attending Georgetown, but Georgetown had an acceptance rate of 22%. So about half of the accepted students must have been waitlisted first.</p>
<p>Approximately 54% of last year’s freshman class was from the east coast. I assume that means that more people applied from the east coast than anywhere else and not that Georgetown selected applicants based on their location. Since more people applied from the east coast, it must be assumed that more people on the east coast are waitlisted than those from other regions.</p>
<p>Your chances of being accepted after being waitlisted are probably better if you are not from the east coast because it is in Georgetown’s best interest to achieve greater geographical diversity in its freshman class.</p>
<p>This is just me reading into the numbers Georgetown has posted on its website. The odds would vary by school as well, but I don’t know the admittance rates for each school. The admissions office might be willing to tell you what last year’s yield was, which would give you a better idea of your chances after being waitlisted. I think they are pretty good.</p>
<p>Um, I’m going to respectfully disagree with the above post. Some years only a small percentage of applicants (maybe 1-3%, as high as 10-11%) are taken from the waitlist (though it varies by school). A couple of years ago, no students were taken from the waitlist.</p>
<p>It’s my understanding that an acceptance rate of 22% means that out of 15000 applicants, about 3300 are offered admission and a little less than half of those are expected to enroll. When the university cannot fill the incoming class from the initial pool of 3300, then students from the waitlist are offered a spot in the class.</p>
<p>thank you for your expert response, maybe we will get on the waitlist then just in case.</p>
<p>AiHy, you seem to know what you are talking about, so I am sure you are right. My response was based on the assumption that Georgetown could not promise spaces to more people than it had room for in the incoming freshman class.</p>
<p>What would happen if 2,500 of the 3,300 students chose to enroll? Would Georgetown then have to tell some of the admits that they must go elsewhere?</p>
<p>Escage, I actually have noo idea what would happen in that instance. Colleges’ admit rates are based on predicted yields to try to get the desired class size, and I’m guessing they err on the side of caution, which is where the waitlist comes into play.</p>
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<p>Simply put, that would not happen. GTown’s matriculation rate historically is about 46% of accepted students for all the schools (SFS is way higher, and the College is substantially higher). Statistically, though, based on the law of large numbers with such a large “sample” of accepted students I think they are pretty much guaranteed to keep hitting about .46 proportionally. Granted that’ll change a bit from year to year, but I’m sure a 95% confidence interval would invariably include .46 time after time.</p>
<p>It’s basically the same idea as how insurance companies, if enough people are insured, are essentially guaranted to make a specific amount of money per person enrolled in the insurance plan, pretty much regardless of anything else.</p>
<p>I hope this helps; it’s from one of those big issues of Newsweek called America’s Hottest Colleges.
These stats are from the 2004-2005 school year so they can’t be completely accurate.
for Georgetown it says:
total number of students applied: 15,420
Admitted: 3,505
Enrolled: 1,528
Number of students waitlisted: 2,039
Students accepting place: 1,216
Waitlisted students admitted: 138</p>
<p>I guess it helps to know that only about half of the kids that are waitlisted actually stay on the waiting list.</p>
<p>why does the SFS have a higher waitlist acceptance rate than the College?</p>