Figured I'd start the thread rather than just talk about it. dont want to bring any more misery to the happy Yale board. So lets talk strategy on how we weasel are way in from here. Also, hopefully this can help some waitlisted candidates in future years. Yale SOM 2013 Waitlist Post in the thread to be added to the rollcall Round 1: aniketdeb (Silver Scholars) Bigblue1010 burgundy2015 - Matriculating at Stern. Dbalks - Dinged with R2. ianczop krudget lfa - Dinged with R2. MoonlightGrahm notenoughtheta - Dinged with R2. NYCFinanceGuy - Dinged with R2. OjilEye/EmBeeAy23 - Dinged with R2. oldmonk rtrhead shushu - Dinged with R2. Stardust sublime4510 Ward2012 - Dinged with R2. Round 2: alphabetagamma chessmaster1234 ctgmat123 - Withdrawn. Matriculating at Duke. forquer genericuser1 - Dinged with R3. junaidjanjua - Dinged with R3. Matriculating at UCLA. mba20155 - Withdrawn. Matriculating at UCLA. Pashya powerpuff rainfall tokugawa86 wp83 --------------------------------------------- As for the SOM waitlist, I'm not sure what to share with ad-com. I started managing another employee right after I submitted my app, so I'm not sure if that's significant or not (I hadn't managed anyone before). I did share this with the person who interview me, so not sure if it counts as an update or not. Also, don't think I can write a whole page about that. I also have no former Yale or prestigious MBA contacts, so I don't think I can come up with the recommendations necessary to impress ad-com. Any ideas out there?

I'm totally feeling this math and bet you're spot on. It will be interesting to see what happens on the R3 deadline. They'll probably accept around 60 or so (I think historically R3 has a higher yield), which means we'll see how big the group swells.

Did anyone else get the email with the link to the question about continuing interest/acceptance of an offer?

Yeah me too. They mentioned that they'd review WL candidates soon but gave no timelines.

Oh wait a minute ... I just realized that decision date for R3 is on May 16th. Could it be possible that they'd release decisions to WL candidates on the same day? I think some WL candidates got rejects on the R2 d-day but I don't think anyone from the WL reported admits.

That sounds possible to me since there were people released from the WL with R2 decisions; hopefully some of you guys will hear better news though!

I just released myself from the wait list. hopefully that's more room for you guys.

Seems like Yale is one of the schools that won't release waitlist candidates until after the round 3 deposit deadline.. does that seem like a fair assessment?

It looks like there were some candidates released with round 2. I don't believe they've accepted any off the waitlist yet. Also, they may keep some folks on the waitlist throughout the summer in case they have people back out at the last minute. From what I understand, only domestic students have the possibility of staying on the list during the summer because of visa issues.