Anyone's child get off the waitlist?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone know of any movement on UVA?

The dean said no on tiktok.

Really? There’s been nothing on her blog or on Instagram

Dean J emphasized that you might as well move on. UVA is a small campus. They have very little room and even kids that get into IVY choose UVA instead. So there aren’t as many openings because there’s little growth at their school to expand. I would not count on it.

Then why bother putting people on the waitlist if she already knows they won't get off it? Why give false hope to people and then tell them to just ignore it and move on.

[Anonymous]

My kid got off Tufts waitlist last week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One kid got off Penn waitlist today, school emailed him.

UPenn?

Students call it Penn, parents, UPenn.

I think people in real life know what Penn is. On a forum, it is probably better to say UPenn.

I don’t write much on here as my kids are still young but I would write UPenn on here, not Penn even though in real life I would say Penn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got off Tufts waitlist last week.

Congrats. Will s/he be going?

Tufts doesn’t seem popular around here. DH went to Tufts. It is a much more popular school in the NE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got off Tufts waitlist last week.

Congrats! What major? DD or DS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got off Tufts waitlist last week.

Congrats. Will s/he be going?

Tufts doesn’t seem popular around here. DH went to Tufts. It is a much more popular school in the NE.

I have heard of a bunch of kids going next year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know of any movement on UVA?

The dean said no on tiktok.

Really? There’s been nothing on her blog or on Instagram

Dean J emphasized that you might as well move on. UVA is a small campus. They have very little room and even kids that get into IVY choose UVA instead. So there aren’t as many openings because there’s little growth at their school to expand. I would not count on it.

Then why bother putting people on the waitlist if she already knows they won't get off it? Why give false hope to people and then tell them to just ignore it and move on.

Because they don't really know until after May 1 if they will need to use the WL. If their yield calculation is too low, then they will pull. Without the WL they could end up without enough freshman. In the current climate, most people should assume the WL will not move anywhere, and get excited about their best choice. Then be pleasantly surprised if they do get off a WL

[Anonymous]

Princeton closed their waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know of any movement on UVA?

The dean said no on tiktok.

Really? There’s been nothing on her blog or on Instagram

Dean J emphasized that you might as well move on. UVA is a small campus. They have very little room and even kids that get into IVY choose UVA instead. So there aren’t as many openings because there’s little growth at their school to expand. I would not count on it.

Then why bother putting people on the waitlist if she already knows they won't get off it? Why give false hope to people and then tell them to just ignore it and move on.

Because they don't really know until after May 1 if they will need to use the WL. If their yield calculation is too low, then they will pull. Without the WL they could end up without enough freshman. In the current climate, most people should assume the WL will not move anywhere, and get excited about their best choice. Then be pleasantly surprised if they do get off a WL

They always put way too many kids on the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know of any movement on UVA?

The dean said no on tiktok.

Really? There’s been nothing on her blog or on Instagram

Dean J emphasized that you might as well move on. UVA is a small campus. They have very little room and even kids that get into IVY choose UVA instead. So there aren’t as many openings because there’s little growth at their school to expand. I would not count on it.

Then why bother putting people on the waitlist if she already knows they won't get off it? Why give false hope to people and then tell them to just ignore it and move on.

Because they don't really know until after May 1 if they will need to use the WL. If their yield calculation is too low, then they will pull. Without the WL they could end up without enough freshman. In the current climate, most people should assume the WL will not move anywhere, and get excited about their best choice. Then be pleasantly surprised if they do get off a WL

They always put way too many kids on the waitlist.

Hardly unique to UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know of any movement on UVA?

The dean said no on tiktok.

Really? There’s been nothing on her blog or on Instagram

Dean J emphasized that you might as well move on. UVA is a small campus. They have very little room and even kids that get into IVY choose UVA instead. So there aren’t as many openings because there’s little growth at their school to expand. I would not count on it.

Then why bother putting people on the waitlist if she already knows they won't get off it? Why give false hope to people and then tell them to just ignore it and move on.

Because they don't really know until after May 1 if they will need to use the WL. If their yield calculation is too low, then they will pull. Without the WL they could end up without enough freshman. In the current climate, most people should assume the WL will not move anywhere, and get excited about their best choice. Then be pleasantly surprised if they do get off a WL

They always put way too many kids on the waitlist.

I agree. They do it because they can. There are kids who will commit elsewhere, as they must do and switch later. Some even in July/August at a late date. As long as people are willing to do that, colleges will keep long WL.
Much like many colleges will continue to market so they get 90K applications for 5K or less spots, so they can drive down their acceptance rates. As long as people pay and apply, they will "review" the apps and be excited about so many applications. It makes them look better. It's all a game

[Anonymous]

It seems like most schools did not go very far into their wait lists this year. People I knew were saying how this was an awesome year to be waitlisted because they were definitely going to move. It seems like they have hardly moved and that many are closed at this point. I guess I'm wondering how the test optional wound up playing out. Did top kids wind up getting into fewer schools and waitlisted at schools they would surely have gotten into a few years before? It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in future years.

[Anonymous]

They said the same thing about the waitlist last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know of any movement on UVA?

The dean said no on tiktok.

Really? There’s been nothing on her blog or on Instagram

Dean J emphasized that you might as well move on. UVA is a small campus. They have very little room and even kids that get into IVY choose UVA instead. So there aren’t as many openings because there’s little growth at their school to expand. I would not count on it.

Then why bother putting people on the waitlist if she already knows they won't get off it? Why give false hope to people and then tell them to just ignore it and move on.

Because they don't really know until after May 1 if they will need to use the WL. If their yield calculation is too low, then they will pull. Without the WL they could end up without enough freshman. In the current climate, most people should assume the WL will not move anywhere, and get excited about their best choice. Then be pleasantly surprised if they do get off a WL

They always put way too many kids on the waitlist.

I agree. They do it because they can. There are kids who will commit elsewhere, as they must do and switch later. Some even in July/August at a late date. As long as people are willing to do that, colleges will keep long WL.
Much like many colleges will continue to market so they get 90K applications for 5K or less spots, so they can drive down their acceptance rates. As long as people pay and apply, they will "review" the apps and be excited about so many applications. It makes them look better. It's all a game

I think the increase in people sending deposits to two and three schools is making the schools hold onto those waitlists. They used to lose people to more selective schools going to the waitlists, but now they could lose people much later in the summer because someone wouldn't/couldn't make their decision by May 1.

[Anonymous]

This waitlist game needs to end. They put thousands of kids on the waitlist giving hope when it really doesn't exist. My kid was strung along all summer (until late August) by a school ultimately to say no room.