1 in 4 respondents were admitted off of the waitlist

Respondents who were either deferred from early decision or applied regular decision were asked: When you originally received your admission decision, were you placed on the waitlist?

With smaller sample sizes, the likelihood of misrepresenting certain groups in a cross tabulation increases. The Herald’s goal is to minimize the risk of representing any group inaccurately, so we omitted or combined certain populations from which we did not collect enough responses. n = 367
Chart: Ciara MeyerSource: The Herald’s First Year PollCreated with Datawrapper