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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Data for Dartmouth in last three years:

19-20 -- 2150 offered WL - O admitted
20-21 --  2661 offered WL - 95 admitted
21-22 -- 2669 offered WL - O admitted

Seriously do not understand why schools like Dartmouth offer WL to so many -- I guess they do because they can -- there is no downside to the school as they have greater pool of talent to draw from to fine tune their class.  But do you need to offer 2600 to fill on average about 30 slots?  Maybe they think it of it as a softer form rejection but it also distracts applicants from otherwise fully committing themselves mentally to the school to which they will attend.

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That is exactly why.  They don't just need to offer a slot to 5 people.  Come May 1, they look at the number of students in engineering/Russian/French/Physics/etc and the number of Male/Female and your racial background/socioeconomic background and many more and then fill what "category" they are looking to complete from the WL.  The goal is to balance out the freshman class and have an "ideal" class, not 90% males or 75% engineers, etc.  They want people from every state, lots of countries, different majors to make a well rounded class

Also, while many get on the Waitlists, I suspect many do it "just to see" but have no real intention of going.  Most kids pick a school and get excited about that.  Once they go down that road, many do not really want to go to the WL school.  So Dartmouth (and others) need a large WL to ensure they have a full class come August/Sept.[/quote]

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