Waitlist movement

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WashU was kind of surprising too. They are pretty popular. Did they under admit in RD?

I heard a rumor that WashU routinely under-admits in RD on purpose, and makes heavy use of the waitlist—often using the we-will-offer-you-a-position-but-only-if-promise-in-advance-that-you-will-accept technique. That way they can manipulate the rankings by artificially reducing their acceptance rate and increasing their yield rate. Pretty sh*tty if true. Hopefully it’s not.

Very true, and Vandy historically does the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to go to Duke.

No not everyone.

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Northwestern moved to WL yesterday.

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Emory went to waitlist.

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Reddit said a Princeton WL on Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WashU was kind of surprising too. They are pretty popular. Did they under admit in RD?

I heard a rumor that WashU routinely under-admits in RD on purpose, and makes heavy use of the waitlist—often using the we-will-offer-you-a-position-but-only-if-promise-in-advance-that-you-will-accept technique. That way they can manipulate the rankings by artificially reducing their acceptance rate and increasing their yield rate. Pretty sh*tty if true. Hopefully it’s not.

Very true, and Vandy historically does the same.

Waitlist can be used to select full pay students as well. Guarantee that happens a lot now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surprised to see schools like CMC, Haverford, Davidson and Colby going to WL so early. Those are pretty selective schools.

WashU was kind of surprising too. They are pretty popular. Did they under admit in RD?

Yes, but they might have been Plan B for kids aiming for a WASP or an Ivy+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised to see schools like CMC, Haverford, Davidson and Colby going to WL so early. Those are pretty selective schools.

WashU was kind of surprising too. They are pretty popular. Did they under admit in RD?

Yes, but they might have been Plan B for kids aiming for a WASP or an Ivy+.

Yes, that was the case for my kid admitted to CMC and Davidson, but going to a T10.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone's kid gotten off the UVA waitlist? I wonder if the lucky ones are mostly In state, OOS or a mix of both

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone's kid gotten off the UVA waitlist? I wonder if the lucky ones are mostly In state, OOS or a mix of both

I've been wondering too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised to see schools like CMC, Haverford, Davidson and Colby going to WL so early. Those are pretty selective schools.

WashU was kind of surprising too. They are pretty popular. Did they under admit in RD?

Yes, but they might have been Plan B for kids aiming for a WASP or an Ivy+.

Yes, that was the case for my kid admitted to CMC and Davidson, but going to a T10.

And my kid attending WASP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory went to waitlist.

Proof? Emory sent and email yesterday saying no waitlist decisions have been made. But made decisions the next day? On a Saturday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory went to waitlist.

Proof? Emory sent and email yesterday saying no waitlist decisions have been made. But made decisions the next day? On a Saturday?

I haven't seen anything about Emory on Reddit or College Confidential or posted by any of the top College Admissions Instagrammers.

[Anonymous]

Lots of movement from many schools last 24 hours:

https://www.tiktok.com/@tineocollegeprep/video/7500268601299979551

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WashU was kind of surprising too. They are pretty popular. Did they under admit in RD?

I heard a rumor that WashU routinely under-admits in RD on purpose, and makes heavy use of the waitlist—often using the we-will-offer-you-a-position-but-only-if-promise-in-advance-that-you-will-accept technique. That way they can manipulate the rankings by artificially reducing their acceptance rate and increasing their yield rate. Pretty sh*tty if true. Hopefully it’s not.

Very true, and Vandy historically does the same.

Many schools do this - but not to the same extent. And many highly rated schools that start pulling from the waitlist carefully screen to see how likely that they will commit - they want reasonable stats plus guarantee that they will commit vs going after the highest stats kids.

Heard WashU also gives better merit to the waitlisted kids as a way to incentivize them to unofficially committing - but heard others do this as well.

The rankings and ratings game is crazy the more you learn about it.