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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, agree with all this AND if you know you are turning down a school, it really is just best practice to let a school know as soon as you have made that decision. Like anything, admissions offices are competing with other schools and an uncertain local economy. It is not a perfect science. The sooner they have this information, the faster they would potentially look at their wait-pool. It isn't as helpful when people wait until the final day for no real reason.[/quote]

They will only look at the wait pool when all the results are in and they know where they are against their projected yield.

They don't keep a running tally. That's just additional work. [/quote]

Seems like it would be easy enough to keep a running tally - I would bet most admissions software platforms will do this for them. If things are trending towards needing to dip into the pool you might do it sooner to get an offer out better candidate (and give them 12-24 hours to accept). 
That said, I also expect that these software platforms are really good at predicting yield based on past data and characteristics of who offers went out to (sibling, legacy, 1st choice indicated, etc) which is why schools rarely need to dip into the wait list/pool.[/quote]

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