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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is on a couple Ivy waitlists and it's ridiculous. I know that the likelihood is slim to none, but I  still hold out some hope. It's a real schizo state to be in. It makes me question why Ivy's need such a buffer to protect their yield??? And yet, here we are, trying to get in. Ugh. I wish there were some college admissions reform that provides feedback as to why your DC did not get in. I mean they spend so much time on their applications, ECs, grades, etc...I think it's the least colleges can do! Venting.[/quote]

Your DC didn't get in because most Ivy's have 40-50K applications for ~1500 freshman spots.  I'd argue 95%+ of those students are "Highly Qualified"/would make ideal part of the freshman class.  With acceptance rates below 7%, all your stats/ec/grades/essays really do is get you a lottery ticket; then it's the luck of the draw after that.  So there is likely no real reason anyone could provide.  It's simply a mathematical equation, with less than 7% acceptances, there will be 93% disappointed, and 95% of those 93% are "highly qualified" candidates.  This is the same at most T20-30 schools.  
The schools do WL to manage their yield.  But for most Ivy's, they take ~50% from ED, and then defer 60-80% of the ED applicants.  This provides them a pool of "highly qualified" candidates who are extremely likely to say yes and attend if offered admission in RD.  They don't publish #s for this, but I'd speculate that another 25%+ of the freshman classes are filled with ED deferrals offered admission in RD round. So right there you have 75% of the class filled with essentially a guarantee the student will attend.  For a freshman class of 1500, that means only 375 slots are really "up in the air".  Since the school has statistics which tell them how many students they need to offer a spot to yield 375 acceptances, there isn't much error.  So really not much need for drawing from the WL.

Just check out the CDS for Harvard.  2020-2021:  Admission offers: 2015
Enrolled Freshman: 1407 
They took nobody from the WL.  
For Class of 2026 there were 740 accepted ED.  That leaves only 660 slots for RD and I'd assume 330-350 will come from ED deferrals.  
Simply put, they rarely need to use the WL. 
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