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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This all seems VERY early to me. So much movement from top schools.

Reddit is saying Yale moved too. Compared to years past, it is unusual.

Maybe its bc they all cross-admitted?[/quote]

Can you explain why this is early? I would have thought schools would have most of their numbers by May 1.[/quote]

Last year many “top” schools started moving after May 5.[/quote]

So, when people are saying this is early, they mean early by a couple of days? That makes more sense to me - a couple of days to figure out where the gaps are? Or do wait-lists usually move in June? I am trying to understand what more information colleges are gathering. They have all the numbers by May 1. They have the wait-list and all the LOCIs. I would have expected most wait-list offers to go out in early May.[/quote]

They extend offers off the waitlist to people that fill a hole in the incoming class. If they need more boys from VA; girls in STEM; more rural kids; Classics majors; etc. So they have to figure out what they are missing once they see who they yielded and then go back to the WL kids and see who fills the gap. This usually takes 2 weeks (admissions doesn’t work on the weekends). May 12-15th is about normal to start seeing a lot. If they are pulling before May 1 or right away, their yield was way off and they already started figuring out who they wanted. [/quote]

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