Marcus7 wrote:
Waitlisted as well. I already interviewed though. Anyone know what the average % of people get accepted off the waitlist? I know it depends on yield, but if anyone knows a historical average, it would be great info to have. Thanks.
I heard that they keep ~100 people on the waitlist at any one time. I also heard that roughly 15 get admitted from R1 and R2, but both of those are unsourced.
Officially, Johnson said in the R2 waitlist chat (March 19), "Suffice it to say, the waitlist is constantly changing in size until we have released R4 decisions when we create the final waitlist, which is usually relatively small."
In the same waitlist chat, in reply to "What percentage of waitlisted candidates were eventually accepted on average over say, the past 5 years?", Johnson said, "Jon, it has varied widely in the past 5 years, so I really can't give you a meaningful average."
My totally personal guess, from the bits gathered here and there, is you'll see about 100 people added to the waitlist from the first two rounds, with 10-15 admitted and most of the rest dropped, ending with a final waitlist of ~100 over the summer. Why so high? Remember, they want diversity in their waitlist crowd; if they lose a female South American oil drilling entrepreneur, they won't want to replace her with a white male i-banker from New York...