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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got off one of the waitlists listed in the OP a few weeks ago. While we were waiting, I was looking at this issue. Those who had an F1 visa appointment that was scheduled prior to May 27 will still have that appointment. The schools probably know exactly which students did not get an appt booked before then. My ballpark guess (based on nothing in particular!) is that perhaps a third of the international freshmen might not have gotten their appt scheduled before appt scheduling was paused. [b]So, there are probably less than a hundred internationals who might not get their visa in time to start freshman year in time.[/b] For Harvard, this really is no big deal.

For the other schools, this is a bigger deal due to lower yield coming off the waitlist, combined with the fact that some of them may have admitted fewer students overall this year due to mistakes by enrollment management consultants, so they've already been making heavy use of the waitlist. But then, this is exactly why even top schools have such large waitlists, a hedge against just this sort of risk.

Separately, students coming from particular countries are blocked, as far as I am aware, though I have not checked the news on this issue in a few weeks.[/quote]

100 per school?

Does this explain what’s going on with Brown and Northwestern?[/quote]
I was referring to Harvard specifically. Each school has a different number of internationals.

Brown and Northwestern both accepted fewer students in ED/RD and that seems to be behind their waitlist use this year seeming to be more extensive than typical. I would blame their enrollment management consultants failing to predict well. Or perhaps they strategically planned to use the waitlist more.[/quote]

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