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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t prove Ivy League schools matter. You can argue it’s the high student caliber in those schools that led to the results.[/quote]
This is the reason for the waitlist design, but I agree would be stronger if it was admitted students who decided to go elsewhere. I believe there IS a.study like that but its older (90s?) and showed no effect of attendance choice. The landscape may have changed since then though.[/quote]

[b]The waitlist are high stat, amazing kids that are UNHOOKED, completely unhooked[/b].  The seats available for an unhooked (non-recruit, no legacy, not First Gen, questbridge, Pell Grant, etc).  They are waitlisted due to class shaping and priority kids. That’s it.

All of the schools already out the WL kids through committee rounds and they passed, when it came to class shaping there wasn’t a spot. The WL is unranked and they will fill any need from that list, they do not re-review the application.

I have a kid that got off the WL who is top of his class, winning awards, prestigious internships….i think largely because the path wasn’t paved. They weren’t guaranteed admits. Some of the teams have kids with much lower stats that never would be admitted otherwise. [/quote]

Ummm no the waitlist kids could definitely be hooked? [/quote]

If they were hooked, they would have been admitted. Yes, they could get deferred—but they don’t get WL’d. [/quote]

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