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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of a kid that really really wanted Duke and didn’t get in, this thread is enraging. [/quote]

i think 'enraging' is a bit strong but I kind of get the sentiment.  In a typical year waitlists and rejections are both rejections.  This year, not so much.  And yet the kids we know who were waitlisted and those who were rejected were pretty much the same kids, qualification wise.

My own kid applied to about 10 top20 schools with top grades, stats, extracurriculars, yada yada.  Was admitted outright to 2, waitlisted at 3 and rejected at 5.  He's since been admitted to all the waitlisted schools (insane year) but his top choice was one of the rejections. There is no way he wasn't qualified to go to the rejected school but for whatever reason, he wasn't chosen and as such, his story at that school ended there.  But kids from his school with identical or lesser stats who were waitlisted there have since all come off.  So there is definitely a sense this year that falling on the right side of the waitlist/rejection divide (which in any other year are both rejections) meant everything.

I get it that this is all a first world problem and life will go on. Just sharing the psychology of it all to a teenager. [/quote]

kids have been getting off waitlists since forever. [/quote]

Yep. I went to HLS 30 years ago. I can think of at least 2 people who got in off the wait-list a month before school started and changed all their plans to attend. [/quote]

LOL.  How often IRL do you drop that you went to HLS?  I'm betting a lot.  [/quote]

jealous much? [/quote]

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