Faculty contact emailed me at 3 pm CST

Got waitlisted on the 19th and accepted on the 24th. The funding offer was too good to ignore. I had to decline all other offers.

generic email to check portal

Expected

Thank you very much for applying to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. I regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission. As you know, the very high number of extraordinary candidates far exceeds the number of places we have in each program, and we are not able to admit many excellent candidates. We wish you every success in all your future endeavors.

surprised I wasn't even waitlisted, good gpa from good school, strong essays and recs. only 1.5 years in workforce though (higher education) and only environmental work was undergrad internships.

Do other accepted students intend to take this offer? I have no idea if it's a good program.

I have been applying for a masters degree since 2016, finally got admitted by a top tier school! I'm ecstatic! Canadian undergrad. 4 years of software engineering experience. No pub.

Post-Interview. Reasonably disappointed (interviews went well, was told by multiple interviewers that I stood out in a good way), but fortunate enough to have gotten into Stanford, my other top choice. This is a great time to remember that admissions decisions are a) a very rough measure of academic potential, and b) completely unrelated to personal worth. Congrats to everyone who was offered a spot - you're all amazing and so, so deserving of this oppertunity!

Rejected after interviewing. It hurts because I thought the interviews went well and I had good talks with the professors. Good luck to everyone.

[Not WL] How many students these universities pick up from the waiting list usually?