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Folks who were rejected, also hate the school. [b]This is one reason the school is waitlisting so many kids now. They recognize the animus that might be generated from a rejection.[/b]

It's just intense jealousy[/quote]

Oh, here I thought Chicago putting 10,000 unqualified kids on a waiting list was another one of their deceptive marketing scams, or as Inside Higher Ed coined it "cruel and insane."

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/04/02/colleges-and-high-schools-again-debate-use-waiting-lists-admissions[/quote]

[b]What UC does is to offer a gap year to waitlisted students as a condition.  Those who accept gap year are then locked in for the next year USNews yield stats.[/b] This is one reason why Chicago's relatively high yield rate is deceptive.  (See College Confidential on Chicago waitlist practice.)  And with a very large waitlist, Chicago can pick and choose who they offer spots to, probably based academic and income stats.  [/quote]

Not unique to Chicago.  Cf Harvard’s Z-list.[/quote]

Harvard's Z-list is by invitation only to about 20 a year. Sounds like it's there as a soft landing for people like Obama who couldn't make the cut during the regular round. Chicago's mandating a gap year to waitlisters looks more like a systematic way of ensuring higher yield stats. [/quote]

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