thebdouglas wrote:
pinchharmonic wrote:
waitlisted..
congrats to those who got in!
for the waitlisters, anyone have an idea of our chances?
Well, last year it was 0%, considering no one was taken off the waitlist. This year seems interesting...they waitlisted a lot of people (including me) without interviews back in december and are now piling more onto the WL. I wonder if their overbooking of the class last year led them to utilize the waitlist more heavily, but who knows?
It does appear a lot of folks are being waitlisted, but how do we know this number is higher than previous years? In chat transcripts, the waitlist director says they typically keep 75-100 waitlisters. It's entirely possible it's still the same number this year.
I can understand they do not want to oversubscribe this year, but I don't necessarily see how that directly results in a bigger waitlist. The waitlist always appears to be far deeper than they actually need!
And don't forget there were several years where Sloan took no one off the waitlist. IMO, the more folks think the waitlist is bogus (ie they can't get off of it), then the less likely qualified applicants will even bother staying on that waitlist and then Sloan will have a problem of having a talented buffer.