Waitlist movement

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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.

[Anonymous]

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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?

[Anonymous]

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.

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UChicago has been strangely quiet.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been strangely quiet.

Since it's a comparatively easier ED admit, a lot of students don't have the option to go elsewhere, even where waitlists have moved in their favor.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been strangely quiet.

Since it's a comparatively easier ED admit, a lot of students don't have the option to go elsewhere, even where waitlists have moved in their favor.

Students who were admitted ED wouldn't be on any waitlists.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been strangely quiet.

Since it's a comparatively easier ED admit, a lot of students don't have the option to go elsewhere, even where waitlists have moved in their favor.

Students who were admitted ED wouldn't be on any waitlists.

Yep. Most of Chicago's matriculants are locked into their spots.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been strangely quiet.

Since it's a comparatively easier ED admit, a lot of students don't have the option to go elsewhere, even where waitlists have moved in their favor.

Students who were admitted ED wouldn't be on any waitlists.

Yep. Most of Chicago's matriculants are locked into their spots.

+100 and they have ED2 round too. So almost all students are locked in with ED1 and ED2. It protects their yield.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been strangely quiet.

Since it's a comparatively easier ED admit, a lot of students don't have the option to go elsewhere, even where waitlists have moved in their favor.

Students who were admitted ED wouldn't be on any waitlists.

Yep. Most of Chicago's matriculants are locked into their spots.

100% true. My Chicago kid sees that as a positive, though. He has friends losing potential roommates and feeling ongoing uncertainty. He's happy to be locked in and assembled a friend group that's locked in as well.

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UPenn had waitlist movement last week

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been strangely quiet.

Since it's a comparatively easier ED admit, a lot of students don't have the option to go elsewhere, even where waitlists have moved in their favor.

Students who were admitted ED wouldn't be on any waitlists.

Yep. Most of Chicago's matriculants are locked into their spots.

100% true. My Chicago kid sees that as a positive, though. He has friends losing potential roommates and feeling ongoing uncertainty. He's happy to be locked in and assembled a friend group that's locked in as well.

Sounds like jail.

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Columbia still moving this weekend

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been strangely quiet.

Since it's a comparatively easier ED admit, a lot of students don't have the option to go elsewhere, even where waitlists have moved in their favor.

Students who were admitted ED wouldn't be on any waitlists.

Yep. Most of Chicago's matriculants are locked into their spots.

100% true. My Chicago kid sees that as a positive, though. He has friends losing potential roommates and feeling ongoing uncertainty. He's happy to be locked in and assembled a friend group that's locked in as well.

Sounds like jail.

It is a risk averse group/mentality. Kind of sad at only 18 years old