Waitlist movement

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia accepted a bunch of people today per reddit.

Wow. So many. Thousands?

Thousands? They're enrolling a class of 1400. A large percentage have been locked in since Dec ED.
An online college counselor I follow estimated 100 kids got off.

Its closer to several hundred - based on an online counselor I follow - who predicted a large wave.

No one really knows. These counselors admit to just watching posts on Reddit and College Confidential like the rest of us.

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NYU accepted students from the waitlist on Thursday.

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As someone with a relative in an enrollment management position at a t20 school, I can tell you this year has been the biggest misfire from admissions offices in a long time due to two things: 1)International student issues 2)one of the largest years ever for number of applications.

Yields are down everywhere and 9/10 colleges are digging deep in their waitlists like never before.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with a relative in an enrollment management position at a t20 school, I can tell you this year has been the biggest misfire from admissions offices in a long time due to two things: 1)International student issues 2)one of the largest years ever for number of applications.

Yields are down everywhere and 9/10 colleges are digging deep in their waitlists like never before.

Harvard? Stanford?

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Anonymous wrote:Following with interest. Parent of rising senior who does not plan on applying ED (interest in a REA school). I really hope my DC has good options next spring and makes a choice by May 1,2026 and forgoes any waitlists. Is that realistic?

Not at all.

I have a 2024 HS Grad that didn’t have a final decision until 5-15. Lots of WL action and lots of early winter/early spring acceptances. We went to several admitted student days and it was exhausting.

I’m hoping my 2026 EDs, gets in and see are done mid-December. Fingers crossed.

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^ my 2024 didn’t ED. He did REA, got deferred (so fired off a ton more applications) then was accepted RD to the REA in addition to everywhere else he applied RD.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with a relative in an enrollment management position at a t20 school, I can tell you this year has been the biggest misfire from admissions offices in a long time due to two things: 1)International student issues 2)one of the largest years ever for number of applications.

Yields are down everywhere and 9/10 colleges are digging deep in their waitlists like never before.

Harvard? Stanford?

Neither. But the fear of International Student’s parents are obvious. Those that had offers from a t20 in the US and McGill, Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, UCL, LSE, Bocconi, ETH, Amsterdam, Paris and Science Po are selecting these schools instead for fear of the future.

She told me these are the most often heard university names of Internationals students that also have acceptances to top US Institutions.

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DS told me that he saw at his school’s insta a kid got off the WL for Vandy a couple of days ago.

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Anonymous wrote:DS told me that he saw at his school’s insta a kid got off the WL for Vandy a couple of days ago.

Saw Vanderbilt, Brown, Northwestern and Penn this week. Private HS not in dmv.

One kid was going to UCLA in May, then got into Northwestern from WL last month. Now deciding btw Brown and Penn.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with a relative in an enrollment management position at a t20 school, I can tell you this year has been the biggest misfire from admissions offices in a long time due to two things: 1)International student issues 2)one of the largest years ever for number of applications.

Yields are down everywhere and 9/10 colleges are digging deep in their waitlists like never before.

Been watching this unfold. Brown and Northwestern admitted 100 fewer than the year before. So much uncertainty.

Sigh, this is why schools have huge waitlists. My high stats, full pay kid is still sitting on a few, every day deeper into plans for the school where he will attend - has a dorm assignment, looking at class options, etc. - which makes mentally switching that much more difficult than it was in March or even May.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with a relative in an enrollment management position at a t20 school, I can tell you this year has been the biggest misfire from admissions offices in a long time due to two things: 1)International student issues 2)one of the largest years ever for number of applications.

Yields are down everywhere and 9/10 colleges are digging deep in their waitlists like never before.

Been watching this unfold. Brown and Northwestern admitted 100 fewer than the year before. So much uncertainty.

Sigh, this is why schools have huge waitlists. My high stats, full pay kid is still sitting on a few, every day deeper into plans for the school where he will attend - has a dorm assignment, looking at class options, etc. - which makes mentally switching that much more difficult than it was in March or even May.

My kid is also hanging out on a waitlist but is getting more excited about their committed school. If a call comes from the waitlist, I’m not sure what the answer will be. The more time that passes, the more likely it will be no thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with a relative in an enrollment management position at a t20 school, I can tell you this year has been the biggest misfire from admissions offices in a long time due to two things: 1)International student issues 2)one of the largest years ever for number of applications.

Yields are down everywhere and 9/10 colleges are digging deep in their waitlists like never before.

Harvard? Stanford?

Neither. But the fear of International Student’s parents are obvious. Those that had offers from a t20 in the US and McGill, Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, UCL, LSE, Bocconi, ETH, Amsterdam, Paris and Science Po are selecting these schools instead for fear of the future.

She told me these are the most often heard university names of Internationals students that also have acceptances to top US Institutions.

Why not defer to next year?

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Cornell sent "interest check" emails to the students they intended to take off the waitlist. It's very important to answer those emails quickly!

Vanderbilt, Northwestern and Brown do this too.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell sent "interest check" emails to the students they intended to take off the waitlist. It's very important to answer those emails quickly!

Vanderbilt, Northwestern and Brown do this too.

Yes. If you don't answer those emails, the schools assume you are not interested.

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Anonymous wrote:Got into Penn today! YES!

Congrats!

Thanks - DC is pushing back some, was really excited about going to a LAC (WASP), but I feel like..it's PENN

Such a different experience for 4 years. Curious what major? I would want my kid to go to Penn, but I think it could be a disaster for a kid that really wanted that small, intellectual LAC feel.

Humanities major - possibly history, maybe english. Wanted Ivy (Yale) from the get-go, applied to several other Ivies as well, so I feel like it's not a LAC-or-bust situation, but rather that DC got excited about the LAC when it was clearly the best option. But now it may not be the best option....

Williams or Amherst vs Penn?

What is the goal? Law school or consulting? What is your kids personality? Do they want urban? I truthfully would go with Williams or Amherst and I was a humanities major who went to law school at a T10.

Yeah, no way I'd pick Penn over Williams or Amherst based upon overall academic reputation or quality.