schools that OVERaccept

[drmota]

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njbmd- thanks for the response. what did you mean by "the class being filled". does that mean that there are at least as many deposits sent in as there are classes in the class or that the maximum number of acceptances have been sent out to the point where no more will be until there is waitlist movement?
-mota

 

[njbmd]

You know I read a lot about undergrad. admissions and I hear that something similar to this happens at some colleges. Students show up for orientation with all their stuff (when they were blatantly rejected or waitlisted) and pretend they are supposed to be there. I have no idea how, but sometimes they slip through the tracks and get added to a residence hall.

To the poster above, did the dean call these four and tell them they were next up on the list before orientation and they were in if no one showed up?

Hi there,
The Dean of Admissions did notify the next two people in line on the waitlist to show up. Two other people showed up hoping for the best. Like I said, one of the two did make it into our class.

njbmd 🙂

 

[njbmd]

njbmd- thanks for the response. what did you mean by "the class being filled". does that mean that there are at least as many deposits sent in as there are classes in the class or that the maximum number of acceptances have been sent out to the point where no more will be until there is waitlist movement?
-mota

Hi there,
The class being filled means that there are enough acceptances sent out to fill the class. The rest are placed on the wait-list and ranked. Some wait-list folks are sent general rankings such as waitlisted and likely to be accepted or waitlisted and unlikely to be accepted.

At my school, you had two weeks to either send in a refundable deposit or release your seat. When the class was filled, all people holding seats had sent in deposits. Again, if you are having difficulty choosing between schools, being able to hold a seat until you make your decision is helpful. Once I had narrowed my choices down to my top two, it was not difficult to release the other seats.

njbmd 🙂

 

[Surgeonizer]

The University of Michigan overaccepted last year also (I think about 5-10). They accept about 300+ for a class of 170 with nobody being accepted off the waitlist. They base the number accepted on statistics from past years. They overshoot it by a lot and ended up having to take in the extra students. This year they are being a lot more conservative about acceptances, so some students might be taken off the waitlist.

Last year the admissions office accepted approximately 215 students for the 170 spots. They managed to shave the number of matriculants down to 177. Last year's admission cycle was a bit anomalous, as Michigan usually pulls people off the waitlist. In fact, Michigan has traditionally been a bit stingy with the number of initial acceptances, with the result that many people are typically pulled off the waitlist. Who knows what will happen this year.