<p>So last year, there were 760-or-so waitlisted applicants, but only 260-or-so accepted a spot on the waitlist. For a school like MIT last year, there were around 560-or-so waitlisted and nearly all stayed on it (520-ish). Is the waitlist stats of Yale believable?</p>
<p>Or maybe there’s a reason for the small percentage of waitlisted persons staying on the waitlist. I’m conjecturing that most of the people waitlisted from Yale are competitive enough to get into at least one of Harvard, Prinecton, or the such, and thus don’t care enough to stay on the waitlist. MIT prospects tend to love MIT and thus stay on the list, but then I’ve seen some statistics in previous years, and there seems to be drastic changes in the proportion of people who stay on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Eh. I don’t believe in any of these stats anymore. It’s too bizarre.</p>