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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It means the school didn't like you as much as the students they admitted but they think you could still be qualified. You'll never know why they liked someone else better. You can look on the CDS to see how often the school accepts from the waiting list.

Most highly rejective schools don't admit by major.[/quote]

Agree with this. 
However, while they don't admit by major, in RD they are shaping the class. So if you are a CS major and someone else is a Comparative Lit major, and well they've only seen a handful of those kids so far, the other kid will absolutely get a leg up. This is the secret sauce of private college counseling by the way. They "strategically position" your candidacy - omit a bunch of ECs and add new ones, to show "authentic alignment" with major.

There was a great longer thread on strategic positioning a while ago. It absolutely works at our private school and our CCO talks to families about it warning folks not to list CS or engineering if aiming for a top private.[/quote]

Where is this thread?[/quote]

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