Double take: Univ. offers fewer waitlist spots
Invitations to join Yale’s waitlist for the class of 2013 were harder to come by this year.
Yale offered positions on its waitlist to 769 applicants, down 27 percent from to last year’s total of 1,052. In other words, the percentage of the applicant pool that was offered a position on the waitlist dropped to 3.0 percent of the applicant pool, from 4.6 percent last year.
Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel said this shift is simply a return to past policy, which involved smaller waitlists. Regardless, the reduction in waitlist positions drew praise from five college counselors...
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