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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People DO get off the waitlists but it requires a few things to happen. For example my DC won a national prize : off waitlist when college received letter. Cousin also. It does happen but not frequently. [/quote] DD graduated from a top private this year and will attend Ivy of her choice so this is not sour grapes but I think schools manipulate these things to help kids they want to help. DD's school does not have class rank but at the end of 12th grade school bestows "cum laude" status to 20% of class based on combo of GPA + class rigor. The calculation is not public. This year the class president, popular kid, popular (ie rich) family had a bad college admissions season. Despite not being in the highest level of math, this kid was named to cum laude and admission to aUS news top30 off wait list was announced shortly after. I wonder if they tilted Cum Laude that way to help with the wait list. [/quote]
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