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[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]

Really depends on the school, in recent years VT has accepted thousands off the waitlist and Lehigh has accepted 90% who opted to stay on the WL. Those who are trying hard to increase their yield/reputation and struggle to manage enrollment put a LOT of people on the waitlist and accept a lot who choose to stay on it.  Sometimes a school swings back and forth--under-enrolls one year and has to take a lot of the WL, overenrolls the next and doesn't take any.  But some schools just use the WL as a strategy always.  With students having 20+ schools on the CommonApp, it's getting harder for schools to predict who will attend (other than ED acceptances).

Here's a list with some stats that give at least a rough sense of the variation:
https://admissionsight.com/the-odds-waitlisted-students-will-get-accepted/ [/quote]

VT significantly over accepted a couple of years ago and struggled mightily to accommodate the influx of freshman.  They had a pattern of over-accepting followed by under-accepting.  That was a bad mistake, and this is what a waitlist is intended to prevent.  It is very difficult for schools to gauge exactly how many they need to accept because the dynamics are always changing with ED/RD and spikes in applicants.  I believe VT's over enrollment caused the ripple effect of schools like JMU needing to go deeper into their waitlist than expected to fill their class.[/quote]

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