Waitlist Movements

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

Per reddit, they are exploding offers (expiring next day at 11:59pm).

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At our private, I was told that waitlist offers are made to kids they know will accept. Perhaps our college office is consulted? They know the kids current acceptances, waitlist offers, and the kid's ranked list of which waotlist offers they would take. Last year, my kid waa accepted ed, but several friends received calls during the school day with college waitlist offers. Kind of crazy but schools have goals to reach and they want it done asap.

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Found this extremely useful website:

https://waitlist-watch.vercel.app/

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Anonymous wrote:Our CCO said that WLs are very strange this year. They expect a busy May and early June.

Strange? How so?

For my 2024, they moved a ton. So many friends had WL offers and my kid had an Ivy & T10 WL offer.

Not heating as much for my 2026 and friends.

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People who think colleges using their waitlists is abnormal are the same people who call it a "bloodbath" when schools that have historically rejected 90% of their applications do just that.

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Anonymous wrote:Williams is the surprising one

+1 They take so much of their class ED too. What other schools are people going to? Duke and Cornell I can understand because a lot of kids will go to top tier Ivies, but Williams and Amherst seem like the type of schools that have a strong yield.

Eh, they take legacy and athletes and Questbridge ED. It's very hard for an unhooked kid to get into Williams ED. Fewer than 80 acceptances for unhooked kids ED.

Williams had a flood over Xmas in one of their freshman dorms. They're renovating it and it will be offline for the entire year next year. It's one of their big dorms. So they have the same enrollment target this year but it's a tighter number due to housing. They cant afford to go over by 5 kids. They don't have the beds.

In those cases - where a college needs to land on a specific number for class size - they'll accept a lower number, check yield and then go to WL.

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates on HYPSM

I don't think any of the Ivies have moved yet, there have been some rumors about Brown but looks questionable. I suspect they did a better job anticipating yield and the international issues that happened last year

Brown hasn’t moved. I think only Cornell and Yale so far.

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^ Adding, the Yale is slightly questionable.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any updates on HYPSM

I don't think any of the Ivies have moved yet, there have been some rumors about Brown but looks questionable. I suspect they did a better job anticipating yield and the international issues that happened last year

Brown hasn’t moved. I think only Cornell and Yale so far.

Yale has definitely not moved.

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UVA and UCLA out of state

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

Per reddit, they are exploding offers (expiring next day at 11:59pm).

They're all exploding offers. Just a matter if you have 48 hours, 72 or 96. That's usually the most you ever get.

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Churn and burn baby

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Have Columbia moved?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

Per reddit, they are exploding offers (expiring next day at 11:59pm).

They're all exploding offers. Just a matter if you have 48 hours, 72 or 96. That's usually the most you ever get.

This is correct. And the way they do this at Georgetown is they usually email asking for a quick call with your child. During that call, your child basically needs to say whether or not they will accept an offer (and whatever financial aid they are offering). If they say yes, they receive an email a day later giving them the actual offer. That way, it's basically a 100% yield on these offers. I don't know what happens if they are "on the fence" or "need more time." My guess is that the AO moves on to someone else, but haven't faced that situation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

Per reddit, they are exploding offers (expiring next day at 11:59pm).

They're all exploding offers. Just a matter if you have 48 hours, 72 or 96. That's usually the most you ever get.

This is correct. And the way they do this at Georgetown is they usually email asking for a quick call with your child. During that call, your child basically needs to say whether or not they will accept an offer (and whatever financial aid they are offering). If they say yes, they receive an email a day later giving them the actual offer. That way, it's basically a 100% yield on these offers. I don't know what happens if they are "on the fence" or "need more time." My guess is that the AO moves on to someone else, but haven't faced that situation.

What if they later decline the offer after being put on the spot and saying yes?