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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article in Ny times.. by Jeff Selingo

“That mind-set makes acceptance to a highly selective college feel like a game. The rules are set by colleges, then carried out by admissions offices, and are stacked against the vast majority of teenagers. Fewer than a tenth of applicants win that prize of getting into one of the nation’s most selective colleges. If that weren’t enough, every year elite colleges move the goal line with new rules for getting across it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/college-admissions-seniors-stats.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I doubt most people will learn anything from his book or article. We keep playing this game and colleges keep winning..[/quote]
Selingo says in this article you can’t do anything about the rules set by colleges. It’s called legislation. Abolish ED.[/quote]

Nonsense, they are private institutions. People can choose to apply or not to apply but private schools have every right to create an admissions process that works for their interests.[/quote]
It is a simple act of Congress. Or Mass can do it at the state level to get it started. Or enforce existing anti-trust law.

While we are at it, limit waitlists to some reasonable number — not in the thousands.[/quote]
"A simple act of Congress."

Are you in the DMV and writing that without sarcasm? That's amazing. [/quote]
A “simple act of Congress” just taxed endowments, with huge budget implications. A “no ED requirement” is not an unfunded mandate; it costs nothing. As would limiting waitlists to — I don’t know — 1/4 the size of the previous years fall freshman class? [/quote]

Ok---so then your kid simply wouldn't get on any WL apparently.  You'd rather have that?  Quite frankly, we told our kid WL don't matter, pick a school and get excited about it.  DOn't mull around and hope for "something better" and waste away your summer being miserable
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Didn’t say there should be no waitlists. Reading comprehension is your friend. But it is funny that you felt you had to tell your kid not to be miserable. The fact that you even felt like you had to say it should be reason enough for this practice to be curtailed.[/quote]

My kid wasn't "miserable".  Because we made sure they knew that reaches were highly unlikely (5% acceptance rates where 90% of applicants are qualified means most highly qualified are WL or rejected, so don't take it personally).  My kid got into all of their targets and safeties, ED deferral then rejection, Rejected at another T15, 1st year abroad at NEU and WL at Tufts.  Otherwise they got into 8 other schools including 3 in the 30-50 range, two with $35-40K/year merit. 
My kid was happy because we helped set expectations early in the process.

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You seem awfully defensive. What difference does it make to you if waitlists were curtailed to something more reasonable, giving colleges still plenty of wiggle room to craft the class they want due to yield vagaries? I don’t think you realize that only 1-10% (the 10% only in a very weird yield year) are ever even considered. It’s a scam. [/quote]

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