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For comparison, I checked the HBS Class of 2014 official page and they have 410 people! Compared to 190 at Wharton. I don't want to get my hopes up but...
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Another 88 in the Wharton Lauder group :/
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For comparison, I checked the HBS Class of 2014 official page and they have 410 people! Compared to 190 at Wharton. I don't want to get my hopes up but...

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Umm, but the people at the Lauder group seem to be on the main W group as well. At least some of them.
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For comparison, I checked the HBS Class of 2014 official page and they have 410 people! Compared to 190 at Wharton. I don't want to get my hopes up but...

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are they mutually exclusive? my guess would be no. either way, though, putting stock in facebook math is a risky endeavor.
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For comparison, I checked the HBS Class of 2014 official page and they have 410 people! Compared to 190 at Wharton. I don't want to get my hopes up but...

Another 88 in the Wharton Lauder group :/
are they mutually exclusive? my guess would be no. either way, though, putting stock in facebook math is a risky endeavor.
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quite a few people in the facebook page of "wharton lauder class of 2014" are from Wharton MBA class of 2013.
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Or Wharton could have accepted a disproportionate number of luddites....

As long as we're wildly speculating. :P
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The vast majority of the people in the Lauder group are from the class of 2013 - not sure why but they are (maybe its to answer questions and what not for the 2014ers). Lauder as a whole only had 65-70 people for the class of 2013.
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This is very productive speculation
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Hey, W'ed people of W.
I believe they deferred many acceptance, which I am one of them.
This costed me 1.000$ deposit to Chicago but anyways.
I expect to receive my acceptance next friday, if not this one.
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Hey, W'ed people of W.
I believe they deferred many acceptance, which I am one of them.
This costed me 1.000$ deposit to Chicago but anyways.
I expect to receive my acceptance next friday, if not this one.
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Maximus81, what do you mean by "they deferred many acceptances"? Did they extend acceptance offers, but then not actually admit these students?
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Hey, W'ed people of W.
I believe they deferred many acceptance, which I am one of them.
This costed me 1.000$ deposit to Chicago but anyways.
I expect to receive my acceptance next friday, if not this one.



Maximus81, what do you mean by "they deferred many acceptances"? Did they extend acceptance offers, but then not actually admit these students?
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He's messing around... relax interwebs.
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Hey, W'ed people of W.
I believe they deferred many acceptance, which I am one of them.
This costed me 1.000$ deposit to Chicago but anyways.
I expect to receive my acceptance next friday, if not this one.



Maximus81, what do you mean by "they deferred many acceptances"? Did they extend acceptance offers, but then not actually admit these students?
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I think Maximus means that they have not offered admission to everyone which they intended on the Round 1 decision date. They waitlisted quite a few people who they intended to admit. The rationale behind it could be the lower yield rate of Wharton. According to Businessweek admitted applicants who enrolled in Wharton newest class is 70% compared to 89% of Harvard. I hope and think that Wharton intends to increase its yield which is an important factor in ranking. The adcom at Wharton knows that if they admit current waitlist applicants, there is more than 95% chance that these students will accept admission. People from the waitlist who already have gotten admission in H/S would have withdrawn from the waitlist anyways.

The only thing that substantiates my theory is lower number of members on Wharton facebook page for Class of 2014 which has fallen to 187 now as compared to HBS 413. Even if we consider the Wharton Lauder 2014 page the total number will be lower than 210. On beatthegmat Wharton page the stats after round 1 decision in December were:

Accepted: 20
Waitlisted: 15
Rejected: 12
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People who have not updated their status are most likely to be reject or waitlisted. This again shows that wharton accepted fewer candidates in Round 1 and waitlisted a big chunk of them.

All of this is just speculation but it has a silver lining for us. Good Luck every one :)
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Eh, who knows. I wouldn't keep my hopes up. I'm going to focus on my other schools. Historically, Wharton has accepted a very small number of applicants from the WL.
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Hey, W'ed people of W.
I believe they deferred many acceptance, which I am one of them.
This costed me 1.000$ deposit to Chicago but anyways.
I expect to receive my acceptance next friday, if not this one.



Maximus81, what do you mean by "they deferred many acceptances"? Did they extend acceptance offers, but then not actually admit these students?

I think Maximus means that they have not offered admission to everyone which they intended on the Round 1 decision date. They waitlisted quite a few people who they intended to admit. The rationale behind it could be the lower yield rate of Wharton. According to Businessweek admitted applicants who enrolled in Wharton newest class is 70% compared to 89% of Harvard. I hope and think that Wharton intends to increase its yield which is an important factor in ranking. The adcom at Wharton knows that if they admit current waitlist applicants, there is more than 95% chance that these students will accept admission. People from the waitlist who already have gotten admission in H/S would have withdrawn from the waitlist anyways.

The only thing that substantiates my theory is lower number of members on Wharton facebook page for Class of 2014 which has fallen to 187 now as compared to HBS 413. Even if we consider the Wharton Lauder 2014 page the total number will be lower than 210. On beatthegmat Wharton page the stats after round 1 decision in December were:

Accepted: 20
Waitlisted: 15
Rejected: 12
No Status: 34

People who have not updated their status are most likely to be reject or waitlisted. This again shows that wharton accepted fewer candidates in Round 1 and waitlisted a big chunk of them.

All of this is just speculation but it has a silver lining for us. Good Luck every one :)
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This is the longer version of what I mean.
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Eh, who knows. I wouldn't keep my hopes up. I'm going to focus on my other schools. Historically, Wharton has accepted a very small number of applicants from the WL.
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this year is different, you will see.
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Another productive speculation

this year W is going to admit around 50% of WL.

let's see what happens...

maximus81 will probably get in ;)
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Another productive speculation

this year W is going to admit around 50% of WL.

let's see what happens...

maximus81 will probably get in ;)
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I will buy you all beer at phili.
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Lol, now my hopes are all high.
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I have been regularly checking the Facebook page of Wharton 2014 admits. The group had about 190 members on 2/27, which shrank to about 187 on 2/29, but has now risen to 198 (as on 3/1). 2/27 was the last day for submitting Round 1 deposits, so this movement was clearly caused by some Round 1 admits declining Wharton and making way for some people on the wait-list to be eventually admitted to the program.
That's about 10-12 people off the wait-list already. What does that mean for the rest of the people who are still on the wait-list? Does anyone know how many people Wharton admits off the wait-list on an average in Round 2?
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I have been regularly checking the Facebook page of Wharton 2014 admits. The group had about 190 members on 2/27, which shrank to about 187 on 2/29, but has now risen to 198 (as on 3/1). 2/27 was the last day for submitting Round 1 deposits, so this movement was clearly caused by some Round 1 admits declining Wharton and making way for some people on the wait-list to be eventually admitted to the program.
That's about 10-12 people off the wait-list already. What does that mean for the rest of the people who are still on the wait-list? Does anyone know how many people Wharton admits off the wait-list on an average in Round 2?
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While I wouldn't be surprised if there was some movement, your logic doesn't really prove it. People agonizing over paying the deposit could have just made it and then just waited a day or two to join the fb group, which is a much simpler explanation. Plus you have to be added by a group admin, so there could have been a backlog (last "wave" of fb additions were 13 hours ago, apparently....geez, I feel stalkerish).

So let's not get too anxious just yet.
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You've got a fair point. Some people might have actually held off joining the FB page till they actually put in the deposit etc. I guess in the absence of any other information on how the wait-list is moving, I end up attributing any change in the group size on FB to people getting admitted from the waiting pool.


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I have been regularly checking the Facebook page of Wharton 2014 admits. The group had about 190 members on 2/27, which shrank to about 187 on 2/29, but has now risen to 198 (as on 3/1). 2/27 was the last day for submitting Round 1 deposits, so this movement was clearly caused by some Round 1 admits declining Wharton and making way for some people on the wait-list to be eventually admitted to the program.
That's about 10-12 people off the wait-list already. What does that mean for the rest of the people who are still on the wait-list? Does anyone know how many people Wharton admits off the wait-list on an average in Round 2?

While I wouldn't be surprised if there was some movement, your logic doesn't really prove it. People agonizing over paying the deposit could have just made it and then just waited a day or two to join the fb group, which is a much simpler explanation. Plus you have to be added by a group admin, so there could have been a backlog (last "wave" of fb additions were 13 hours ago, apparently....geez, I feel stalkerish).

So let's not get too anxious just yet.
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