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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do schools reject/accept on the same day?  Do they hold anyone back for wait list or not really?

I figure the schools reach out by phone to people in advance of this to make sure they have a group who will accept the offer? or does it not work that way.

If we haven't heard yet i figured getting rejected. (non-high school admissions....we are new to this)[/quote]
No, not having heard in advance does not mean it’s a rejection. I’ve heard that some schools will give a courtesy advance heads-up to the family of a sibling that is being rejected, a couple days to a few hours before the official release of info. Not all schools even do that.

There are no advance notifications to “ensure a group who will accept the offer.” The schools have scads of data and have a good sense of their expected yield. They admit more students than they have spots for based on that data (some schools may be more conservative if the previous year was overenrolled, etc).

You’re overthinking it. [/quote]

We got a call from a big 3/4/5 admissions director today, "just checking in" and asking if we had any more questions about the school that they could answer. It felt like a good sign. Who knows whether we'll get in next Friday, but it did seem like they were probing us about our continued interest and perhaps trying to protect yield. [/quote]

Which school?[/quote]

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