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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of DC who applied last year. We said the same thing. The waitlists will move. They didn’t. Focus on the acceptances, have hope for the remaining, but don’t hold out for a waitlist. The chances are so small.[/quote]

they may be small but still there, I know one kid from DC private that got off WL at Vandy in May couple of years ago[/quote]

Yes, my friend's son got off WL at UPenn & Brown in [b]2020[/b][/quote]

2020, a year tons of kids got off waitlists because people changed plans due to covid, not to be confused with 2021 or, perhaps, 2022.[/quote]

Kids got off WL a lot in 2021 too--maybe not as much at schools like Penn, Brown and Vanderbilt--but at a lot of other schools.  Enrollment is just getting harder to predict as top kids are putting in so many apps.[/quote]

Am not familiar with a single kid who got off a WL in 2021 and I know a lot of kids, across many schools, in that class.[/quote]

Well, the data say otherwise. [/quote]

My DC currently has 5 WL results. I looked up prior years, and two of them took no one off the WL, one took 16 students out of thousands waitlisted, and the other two took 40% off the WL and 90% off the WL (meaning they did not WL many students and had a pretty good handle on what yield would be).[/quote]

Yes, this is exactly what you should do--look at the actual schools you're waitlisted and their track record for the past few years.  For some it's a reasonable chance, for others you should just let it go.[/quote]

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