Waitlist movement

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I honestly don't remember what major was put on the Brown application - not CS or Engineering, though. Sent a LOCI on 4/8

Congrats. Brown said WL would not move until after 5/1. What happened to make it move so early?

I've now heard of 3 people who've gotten into Brown this week off WL. And Duke is moving too. And Rice and UChicago.....

Why so early? Are families concerned with the high price tags?

Seems like some first mover behavior to beat the other waitlists.

But admitted students have until May 1st to decide so they could get caught with admitting too many students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I honestly don't remember what major was put on the Brown application - not CS or Engineering, though. Sent a LOCI on 4/8

Congrats. Brown said WL would not move until after 5/1. What happened to make it move so early?

I've now heard of 3 people who've gotten into Brown this week off WL. And Duke is moving too. And Rice and UChicago.....

Why so early? Are families concerned with the high price tags?

Seems like some first mover behavior to beat the other waitlists.

But admitted students have until May 1st to decide so they could get caught with admitting too many students.

They might already have students declining which has opened up enough spots for them to feel comfortable admitting from the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I honestly don't remember what major was put on the Brown application - not CS or Engineering, though. Sent a LOCI on 4/8

Congrats. Brown said WL would not move until after 5/1. What happened to make it move so early?

I've now heard of 3 people who've gotten into Brown this week off WL. And Duke is moving too. And Rice and UChicago.....

Why so early? Are families concerned with the high price tags?

Seems like some first mover behavior to beat the other waitlists.

But admitted students have until May 1st to decide so they could get caught with admitting too many students.

DP. They could, though probably won't. They probably admitted too conservatively from RD and aren't seeing a high enough enrollment deposit rate compared to prior years. They will leave themselves a cushion for making more waitlist offers in May so that they can ultimately hit their class size on the nose.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I honestly don't remember what major was put on the Brown application - not CS or Engineering, though. Sent a LOCI on 4/8

Congrats. Brown said WL would not move until after 5/1. What happened to make it move so early?

DP. Prior to May 1, colleges have a sense of what their yield is looking like by tracking and comparing the current rate of enrollment deposits compared to prior years. Enrollment management consultants are paid handsomely to help them with this tracking.

Brown typically does not move its WL until after May 1, so that is presumably why they told that to WL students. But, every year is different.

Its likely too many students had turned them down early? That would lead to an early mover here.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I honestly don't remember what major was put on the Brown application - not CS or Engineering, though. Sent a LOCI on 4/8

Congrats. Brown said WL would not move until after 5/1. What happened to make it move so early?

I've now heard of 3 people who've gotten into Brown this week off WL. And Duke is moving too. And Rice and UChicago.....

Why so early? Are families concerned with the high price tags?

Seems like some first mover behavior to beat the other waitlists.

But admitted students have until May 1st to decide so they could get caught with admitting too many students.

They might already have students declining which has opened up enough spots for them to feel comfortable admitting from the waitlist.

DP. I tihnk it's less about seeing declines and more about tracking deposits. Depositing data is carefully tracked and compared.

[Anonymous]

If you look at how many kids Brown admitted last year vs this year they seemed to have admitted about 100 less in 2025.

maybe this was the plan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you look at how many kids Brown admitted last year vs this year they seemed to have admitted about 100 less in 2025.

maybe this was the plan?

This seems likely. They weren't sure how yield would go, so admitted fewer, with a plan to go to the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you look at how many kids Brown admitted last year vs this year they seemed to have admitted about 100 less in 2025.

maybe this was the plan?

Interesting.
Some schools admitted 100-200 more. If you follow those random IG college experts.

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Anonymous wrote:If you look at how many kids Brown admitted last year vs this year they seemed to have admitted about 100 less in 2025.

maybe this was the plan?

This seems likely. They weren't sure how yield would go, so admitted fewer, with a plan to go to the waitlist.

Last year (class of 2028) Brown admitted 2521 kids between ED and RD (898 + 1623).
This year (2029) they admitted 2417 kids between ED and RD (906 + 1511).

So last year the admitted 104 more kids prior to even going to the waitlist.
Then last year they took 118 off the waitlist.

So for whatever reason they appear to have chosen to under admit this year and use the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you look at how many kids Brown admitted last year vs this year they seemed to have admitted about 100 less in 2025.

maybe this was the plan?

This seems likely. They weren't sure how yield would go, so admitted fewer, with a plan to go to the waitlist.

Last year (class of 2028) Brown admitted 2521 kids between ED and RD (898 + 1623).
This year (2029) they admitted 2417 kids between ED and RD (906 + 1511).

So last year the admitted 104 more kids prior to even going to the waitlist.
Then last year they took 118 off the waitlist.

So for whatever reason they appear to have chosen to under admit this year and use the waitlist.

Thanks to whomever found these stats. Very interesting!

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Any other selective WL today??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of movement at Va Tech

My kid helped with that

Yep, my kid is about to give up their spot

[Anonymous]

Today, NYU is moving per reddit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you look at how many kids Brown admitted last year vs this year they seemed to have admitted about 100 less in 2025.

maybe this was the plan?

This seems likely. They weren't sure how yield would go, so admitted fewer, with a plan to go to the waitlist.

Last year (class of 2028) Brown admitted 2521 kids between ED and RD (898 + 1623).
This year (2029) they admitted 2417 kids between ED and RD (906 + 1511).

So last year the admitted 104 more kids prior to even going to the waitlist.
Then last year they took 118 off the waitlist.

So for whatever reason they appear to have chosen to under admit this year and use the waitlist.

For whatever reason? Seems like they are trying to juke the stats -- keep acceptedance % down and yield up.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know directly of a Duke WL admit?