wait list movement

[Anonymous]

Virginia schools did not utilize their waitlists much at all, except to offer OOS candidates admission. And because those OOS candidates were dealing with waitlists in their own states they accepted Virginia admissions. Just look at the area instagram pages for each senior class and what you will see are so many Loudoun County and Fairfax County kids going to out of state schools in the fall (Penn State, UPitt, U Michigan, Clemson, South Carolina, UGA, Tennessee, etc). Big out of state numbers for this graduating class. And this will impact rising seniors as well. If you are a high achieving kid you better take the SAT's and try and get OOS scholarships because in state Virginia schools are going to be tough to get into for a few years. And race didn't play into many of these admissions decisions. Look at TJ- so many kids going out of state who didn't get into Virginia schools. This was just a rough year. If you aren't happy where you end up you can always transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Virginia schools did not utilize their waitlists much at all, except to offer OOS candidates admission. And because those OOS candidates were dealing with waitlists in their own states they accepted Virginia admissions. Just look at the area instagram pages for each senior class and what you will see are so many Loudoun County and Fairfax County kids going to out of state schools in the fall (Penn State, UPitt, U Michigan, Clemson, South Carolina, UGA, Tennessee, etc). Big out of state numbers for this graduating class. And this will impact rising seniors as well. If you are a high achieving kid you better take the SAT's and try and get OOS scholarships because in state Virginia schools are going to be tough to get into for a few years. And race didn't play into many of these admissions decisions. Look at TJ- so many kids going out of state who didn't get into Virginia schools. This was just a rough year. If you aren't happy where you end up you can always transfer.

This exactly! forget the waitlists. In the old days waitlists gave kids hope. This year they were just a gut punch to disappointment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Virginia schools did not utilize their waitlists much at all, except to offer OOS candidates admission. And because those OOS candidates were dealing with waitlists in their own states they accepted Virginia admissions. Just look at the area instagram pages for each senior class and what you will see are so many Loudoun County and Fairfax County kids going to out of state schools in the fall (Penn State, UPitt, U Michigan, Clemson, South Carolina, UGA, Tennessee, etc). Big out of state numbers for this graduating class. And this will impact rising seniors as well. If you are a high achieving kid you better take the SAT's and try and get OOS scholarships because in state Virginia schools are going to be tough to get into for a few years. And race didn't play into many of these admissions decisions. Look at TJ- so many kids going out of state who didn't get into Virginia schools. This was just a rough year. If you aren't happy where you end up you can always transfer.

This exactly! forget the waitlists. In the old days waitlists gave kids hope. This year they were just a gut punch to disappointment.

Waitlists are almost always a soft no.
It just means that you met the criteria, but they didn’t pick you.
It’s the “it’s not you, it’s me” of college admissions.

[Anonymous]

One friend's kid got of Northwestern's waitlist. To be honest I don't know if it was for a particular school. My cousin got off Vassar's waitlist.

[Anonymous]

College Confidential says one or two got off the Brown waitlist today.

[Anonymous]

One or two doesn't begin to make a dent in these waitlists. VT waitlisted 15,000 kids. How many got off of that waitlist? Does anyone know? I doubt they'll ever say the honest truth. Waitlists were used to imply hope and all they did was deceive students into thinking they had a chance. USA Today did a great article on it this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One or two doesn't begin to make a dent in these waitlists. VT waitlisted 15,000 kids. How many got off of that waitlist? Does anyone know? I doubt they'll ever say the honest truth. Waitlists were used to imply hope and all they did was deceive students into thinking they had a chance. USA Today did a great article on it this week.

A couple hundred. They went big before May 1.

[Anonymous]

Kid’s classmate got into Northwestern today. Guess that means he is not...

Supposedly (according to him) Vassar and WashU as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One or two doesn't begin to make a dent in these waitlists. VT waitlisted 15,000 kids. How many got off of that waitlist? Does anyone know? I doubt they'll ever say the honest truth. Waitlists were used to imply hope and all they did was deceive students into thinking they had a chance. USA Today did a great article on it this week.

This is silly. These stats are reported on the colleges' common data sets every year. For admission in Fall 2020, VT offered a place on the waiting list to 10,800 students, 6990 accepted a spot on the waiting list, and ultimately 3959 were admitted (57%).

The stats for Fall 2021 will be reported out next year, so you can satisfy your curiosity then.

[Anonymous]

Anyone hear from Emory?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One or two doesn't begin to make a dent in these waitlists. VT waitlisted 15,000 kids. How many got off of that waitlist? Does anyone know? I doubt they'll ever say the honest truth. Waitlists were used to imply hope and all they did was deceive students into thinking they had a chance. USA Today did a great article on it this week.

This is silly. These stats are reported on the colleges' common data sets every year. For admission in Fall 2020, VT offered a place on the waiting list to 10,800 students, 6990 accepted a spot on the waiting list, and ultimately 3959 were admitted (57%).

The stats for Fall 2021 will be reported out next year, so you can satisfy your curiosity then.

VT hasn't been transparent at all this application season. And are they going to report how many people deferred their admission and how that impacted this years stats. You obviously don't know what this has been like for students applying to VT this year. There is not way they took 4000 kids this year off the waitlist. No way! When those numbers do come out you're going to see maybe they offered 200-300 kids a spot and I guarantee many are OOS. The admissions department at VT has changed admissions so much. I won't go into further detail, but being in Northern Virginia high schools doesn't help you much at all. It's ridiculous and I can see why this person wanted to know the stats.

[Anonymous]

It seems to me that the schools are causing much of their own problems. They don't want to release kids and close the waitlist because they might need to pull from it yet their own lack of transparency about their numbers causes other schools to do the same thing. It is a Catch-22.

[Anonymous]

I think they are waiting to see what happens with their internationals trying to get visas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they are waiting to see what happens with their internationals trying to get visas.

That may be a long wait...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they are waiting to see what happens with their internationals trying to get visas.

That may be a long wait...

I imagine they'll have some idea in another month or two, but yeah, long wait from now.