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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Waitlist is often a form of "soft rejection" for legacy applicants, children of donors, faculty kids and so on.

My DS is waitlisted at an Ivy, and admissions officer actually called my ex (a ridiculously active alum) to say he has a very good chance of getting in if his end of semester grades are strong. Ex of course called DS to tell him HE MUST GET STRAIGHT A GRADES THIS SPRING.

I told DS (who is happily planning to attend a top 25 college about which he is excited, and has no real interest in the Ivy) to ignore this, relax, and enjoy his spring.

But this is to say: the waitlists are not "fair" either. My DS probably won't get in off the waitlist— he not gonna have straight As this semester, that's for sure— and is unlikely to accept a waitlist offer in the unlikely event it is extended. But I assume many similarly situated kids would.

All this is to say: if it's an Ivy, and you aren't hooked, assume your child's WL acceptance odds are low.

I know, this sucks. It is just one sucky piece of an incredibly arbitrary, unfair and generally sucky process.[/quote]

Donald Trump’s son is my age. I remember hearing that he was waitlisted at Penn and Donald Trump had to donate a significant amount and he got off the waitlist.[/quote]

How do you think Trump got in to UPenn in the first place?[/quote]

You made it sound like Penn would prefer most likely a plain nerd over Donald Trump? Like it or not, Trump is much more impactful to the country where half of the population think he is right. Penn would congratulate itself for the right decision that they did not solely rely on his test scores to admit him. If you could get so many people to agree with you, every school would regret they did not have you. If anything, it's a success story for Penn.

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