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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

WashU was kind of surprising too. They are pretty popular. Did they under admit in RD?[/quote]

I heard a rumor that WashU routinely under-admits in RD on purpose, and makes heavy use of the waitlist—often using the we-will-offer-you-a-position-but-only-if-promise-in-advance-that-you-will-accept technique. That way they can manipulate the rankings by artificially reducing their acceptance rate and increasing their yield rate.  Pretty sh*tty if true.  Hopefully it’s not. [/quote]
Very true, and Vandy historically does the same. [/quote]

Many schools do this - but not to the same extent. And many highly rated schools that start pulling from the waitlist carefully screen to see how likely that they will commit - they want reasonable stats plus guarantee that they will commit vs  going after the highest stats kids.

Heard WashU also gives better merit to the waitlisted kids as a way to incentivize them to unofficially committing - but heard others do this as well.

The rankings and ratings game is crazy the more you learn about it.[/quote]

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