Waitlist Movement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost all kids I know of that got off a waitlist were full pay. Money talks.

This is definitely a rule of thumb. Almost all waitlists are need-aware, even if the college is need-blind during the regular part of the admission season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost all kids I know of that got off a waitlist were full pay. Money talks.

This is definitely a rule of thumb. Almost all waitlists are need-aware, even if the college is need-blind during the regular part of the admission season.

How can you find out if they are ranked?

Is anyone else seeing a lot of private school deferrals this year (that in previous years would have been an EA acceptance)?

[Anonymous]

Common Data Set for each school has entries for whether the school had a WL, whether it ranked the WL, and how many on/taken from the WL. For many schools, some or all of these entries are blank. E.g., for 2022-23, Wake Forest disclosed that it had a WL but did not publish more info; UVA disclosed that it had a WL, offered 8368 applicants a place on the WL, 4937 applicants accepted a place on the WL, and 7 applicants were ultimately offered a spot to matriculate from the WL; Yale disclosed that it had a WL, offered WL spots to 1000 applicants, had 780 applicants accept a WL spot, and ultimately gave offers to 9 WL applicants.

[Anonymous]

PP: Another Q on Common Data set asks whether ranked, but most leave blank. Even UVA and Yale, which otherwise gave stats, said "N/A" or left blank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost all kids I know of that got off a waitlist were full pay. Money talks.

This is definitely a rule of thumb. Almost all waitlists are need-aware, even if the college is need-blind during the regular part of the admission season.

How can you find out if they are ranked?

Is anyone else seeing a lot of private school deferrals this year (that in previous years would have been an EA acceptance)?

To be clear, deferrals are not the same thing as the waitlist.

Most colleges do not rank the waitlist. Acceptance off the waitlist depends on institutional priorities, for example, they need a tuba player from Wisconsin, or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost all kids I know of that got off a waitlist were full pay. Money talks.

This is definitely a rule of thumb. Almost all waitlists are need-aware, even if the college is need-blind during the regular part of the admission season.

How can you find out if they are ranked?

Is anyone else seeing a lot of private school deferrals this year (that in previous years would have been an EA acceptance)?

To be clear, deferrals are not the same thing as the waitlist.

Most colleges do not rank the waitlist. Acceptance off the waitlist depends on institutional priorities, for example, they need a tuba player from Wisconsin, or whatever.

But isn’t there a correlation btw all of these deferrals we are seeing and later long waitlists?

The assumption in the other post was that lots of 1G/LI seniors are getting numerous admits and waiting on financial aid, causing a bottleneck in the system which won’t be determined until late April-May?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost all kids I know of that got off a waitlist were full pay. Money talks.

This is definitely a rule of thumb. Almost all waitlists are need-aware, even if the college is need-blind during the regular part of the admission season.

How can you find out if they are ranked?

Is anyone else seeing a lot of private school deferrals this year (that in previous years would have been an EA acceptance)?

To be clear, deferrals are not the same thing as the waitlist.

Most colleges do not rank the waitlist. Acceptance off the waitlist depends on institutional priorities, for example, they need a tuba player from Wisconsin, or whatever.

But isn’t there a correlation btw all of these deferrals we are seeing and later long waitlists?

The assumption in the other post was that lots of 1G/LI seniors are getting numerous admits and waiting on financial aid, causing a bottleneck in the system which won’t be determined until late April-May?

Could be. Curious what the experts see happening

[Anonymous]

Curious if ppl are seeing abnormally larger numbers of WL decisions this March?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale overshot their yield and overenrolled by almost 200 so definitely no one came off there. I think Dartmouth also closed w/ no wait list admits.

At my daughter’s school, people have come off the wait list at NYU (multiple), Wisconsin, BU, Tulane and Northwestern. It has seemed like a ton of movement compared to what we expected (next to none).

This is crazy. How does this happen??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a Yale alum and at some event in the past heard that when the weather is beautiful during bulldog days their yield is higher than in years when it’s rainy. This year there was great weather during Bulldog days = higher yield. Unfortunately Harvard’s admit days were the two days prior to Yale’s and the first day was a complete washout and the last day cloudy.

This is why/how they overshot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious if ppl are seeing abnormally larger numbers of WL decisions this March?

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My child has 5 so far. Feels like a lot to us….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious if ppl are seeing abnormally larger numbers of WL decisions this March?

Might be better to start a new thread rather than piggyback on a thread about class of 2023 waitlists.