We've had our suspicions for the last month or so, but the New York Times recently confirmed the fact that Cornell has yet to take a student off the waitlist this summer. Currently, Cornell has has 3,238 students planning on arriving in Ithaca this August. That's 88 students more than the annual incoming class target of 3,150. What's striking is that Cornell over-enrolled despite all of the bad press about suicides this spring. Just imagine how over-enrolled Cornell would have been had only the Sweet Sixteen (which certainly bumped up enrollment at the margins) occurred. Curious to note the number of schools who have had to rely pretty heavily on their wait list to reach their enrollment targets this summer. Duke took 11 percent (!) of its entering freshmen off the wait list. Vanderbilt took 10 percent, while Columbia and Harvard took 5 percent and 4 percent off its waitlists, respectively. Below, some of the data from the Times:
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