If a school has 50 seats and interviews 200 people. Then, how many acceptance letter does the school send out?
Sorry for such a random question
Sorry for such a random question
How could it be less than 50?
I think each school is different. UF said they send out 83 acceptances (for 83 seats) on Dec 1st and take people off the waitlist as those 83 decline.
However, Harvard accepts 12-16 (for 35 seats) on Dec 1st and fills the rest by February.
I would guess schools would avoid sending out more acceptances than they have seats, just in case, again that depends on the school. Some schools are obviously more likely to have their offer accepted than others so they might bank on those numbers.
How could it be less than 50?
I think each school is different. UF said they send out 83 acceptances (for 83 seats) on Dec 1st and take people off the waitlist as those 83 decline.
I interviewed at UF in October and they said pretty clearly that they won't send out a full 83 acceptances since they feel an obligation to keep some seats for the people they are still inviting to interview. I guess if they know some people are going to deny them they may, but they made it sound like they will keep a good amount open like 15 or so.
I think each school is different. UF said they send out 83 acceptances (for 83 seats) on Dec 1st and take people off the waitlist as those 83 decline.
However, Harvard accepts 12-16 (for 35 seats) on Dec 1st and fills the rest by February.
I would guess schools would avoid sending out more acceptances than they have seats, just in case, again that depends on the school. Some schools are obviously more likely to have their offer accepted than others so they might bank on those numbers.
does anyone know how many students does harvard interview before dec. 1st??
12-16 on Dec. 1st seem very low...
I'm not too sure how many before dec 1st but you can look on predents to see how many interview dates before dec 1st they're having. In average I think they interview 4 -5 people per day. Harvard has a diff. philosophy where they want to give everyone equal opportunity and not hurt anyone's chances for submitting late, so they only accept 14-16 people on dec 1st and put quite a few on the waitlist (quite a few of which become accepted later on but they just wanna wait and see their whole pool before accepting so many). I can tell you that they interview about 120 total, and they accept I think 45-50 people total to fill those 35 spots.
btw how was your interview?
can you give us any interview feedbacks?