Anonymous wrote:Just seeing that UVA closed its waitlist a couple days ago after only accepting six applicants off of it out of thousands. You gotta wonder how they picked the six.

Anyway such a crapshoot. One of my kids got in off the waitlist several years ago, but that year they took a couple hundred.

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Anonymous wrote:Student from a family we are close with got off the CalTech waitlist around a week ago. Was committed to WashU in STL. They were very excited since they were dejected with how the process initially shook out as the kid is extremely talented but got waitlisted/rejected at all their top options.

Does UChicago not take into account legacy status for RD? Was really surprised to hear when this student was rejected from there despite his parent being an alum.

As alum, they should have known to apply ED. 70% of the class is accepted ED, particularly legacies.

It's actually 80%

Then what type of student do they accept that makes up the remainig 20%? Are these the high flyers that may reject UChicgo anyway because they have a lot of offers? Sheesh!

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Anonymous wrote:Student from a family we are close with got off the CalTech waitlist around a week ago. Was committed to WashU in STL. They were very excited since they were dejected with how the process initially shook out as the kid is extremely talented but got waitlisted/rejected at all their top options.

Does UChicago not take into account legacy status for RD? Was really surprised to hear when this student was rejected from there despite his parent being an alum.

As alum, they should have known to apply ED. 70% of the class is accepted ED, particularly legacies.

It's actually 80%

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Anonymous wrote:Student from a family we are close with got off the CalTech waitlist around a week ago. Was committed to WashU in STL. They were very excited since they were dejected with how the process initially shook out as the kid is extremely talented but got waitlisted/rejected at all their top options.

Does UChicago not take into account legacy status for RD? Was really surprised to hear when this student was rejected from there despite his parent being an alum.

As alum, they should have known to apply ED. 70% of the class is accepted ED, particularly legacies.

Anonymous wrote:Student from a family we are close with got off the CalTech waitlist around a week ago. Was committed to WashU in STL. They were very excited since they were dejected with how the process initially shook out as the kid is extremely talented but got waitlisted/rejected at all their top options.

Does UChicago not take into account legacy status for RD? Was really surprised to hear when this student was rejected from there despite his parent being an alum.

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Anonymous wrote:UVAs waitlist is closed as of today.

Did UVA's ever even open this year?

We got an email from W&M a few days ago basically saying no waitlist movement this year.

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Anonymous wrote:DD waitlisted at Case Western. She keeps getting emails asking if it's her first choice, and she says yes. Her stats are way higher than CW's averages, yet they put her on the waitlist. I suspect it's because she didn't visit the school. She was hoping to get accepted before visiting. She's already accepted UVA, but still would go to Case if they accepted her. This waitlist thing is strange.

If you’re a VA resident sticking with UVA is a no brainer.

Why is it a no brainer? Cost isn't everything.

UVA is a far better school. I also find it strange to consider Case for anything in comparison to UVA.

Case is “far better” than UVA in STEM. There, I said it!

+1000 Only reason to choose UVA over Case for stem is finances. Academically there is no comparison

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Anonymous wrote:The ONLY time I can see it as morally acceptable is if it's done way before May 1 (deadline for acceptances at most universities) and it's done at a school where an early deposit helps ensure better housing (or simply on campus housing freshman year at all). So unless you are accepted to several schools with this criteria (my 2 kids applied to 25 universities and only had 1 where this was the case), you can morally put the deposit down at one and then as soon as you decide where you will actually be attending (ie put the deposit at the other), then you pull your acceptance at first school. So really it's not a double deposit, because this would be done before May 1 deadline.

But really the need to secure better housing is the only ethical reason to do it that I can come up with. And any university that does this probably knows this happens, and also probably doesn't refund those deposits---all part of their game. And ethically, you are not going past the may 1 deadline with 2 acceptances, you'd pull one of them by May 1

**I really wish someone had told me this before my oldest went to college. He was accepted at an EA school that was probably his first choice, wanted to see if he got into his reach, so waited, didn't get in and finally accepted EA only to find out he got a shitty place in the housing preference list which we could have avoided with a $500 deposit. Now paying thousands extra in off campus housing even though he was admitted in early round. It is OK to do it in this sense and I will do so with my second kid if she gets the chance.

We did it because D changed mind three weeks after deposit was made. We couldn't get hold of anyone to tell them she wasn't going.

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Anonymous wrote:DD waitlisted at Case Western. She keeps getting emails asking if it's her first choice, and she says yes. Her stats are way higher than CW's averages, yet they put her on the waitlist. I suspect it's because she didn't visit the school. She was hoping to get accepted before visiting. She's already accepted UVA, but still would go to Case if they accepted her. This waitlist thing is strange.

If you’re a VA resident sticking with UVA is a no brainer.

Why is it a no brainer? Cost isn't everything.

UVA is a far better school. I also find it strange to consider Case for anything in comparison to UVA.

Why consider a school other than UVA? For so many, the experience of meeting people from different parts of the country and living in a new area is an extremely positive one for growth and development. For the N. VA student, UVA really is "the 13th year of high school".

My DS doesn't even know the kids in his own school that got accepted to UVA too. I think there's only 6 of them too. That's not exactly the 13th year of HS>

It isn't about knowing specific kids but instead about being exposed to different backgrounds, areas, traditions, etc. With the vast majority of those at UVA being from the same geographical area that is just not going to happen than it will at a school elsewhere. Nothing awful about that and I have had one attend and thrive at UVA but the logistics are what they are.

Have said this a few times, falls on deaf ears, but NOVA is among the most diverse places in the country. You can find every ethnicity in large quantities. But you’re right, not alot of folks from Kansas.

Anonymous wrote:The ONLY time I can see it as morally acceptable is if it's done way before May 1 (deadline for acceptances at most universities) and it's done at a school where an early deposit helps ensure better housing (or simply on campus housing freshman year at all). So unless you are accepted to several schools with this criteria (my 2 kids applied to 25 universities and only had 1 where this was the case), you can morally put the deposit down at one and then as soon as you decide where you will actually be attending (ie put the deposit at the other), then you pull your acceptance at first school. So really it's not a double deposit, because this would be done before May 1 deadline.

But really the need to secure better housing is the only ethical reason to do it that I can come up with. And any university that does this probably knows this happens, and also probably doesn't refund those deposits---all part of their game. And ethically, you are not going past the may 1 deadline with 2 acceptances, you'd pull one of them by May 1

**I really wish someone had told me this before my oldest went to college. He was accepted at an EA school that was probably his first choice, wanted to see if he got into his reach, so waited, didn't get in and finally accepted EA only to find out he got a shitty place in the housing preference list which we could have avoided with a $500 deposit. Now paying thousands extra in off campus housing even though he was admitted in early round. It is OK to do it in this sense and I will do so with my second kid if she gets the chance.

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Anonymous wrote:DD waitlisted at Case Western. She keeps getting emails asking if it's her first choice, and she says yes. Her stats are way higher than CW's averages, yet they put her on the waitlist. I suspect it's because she didn't visit the school. She was hoping to get accepted before visiting. She's already accepted UVA, but still would go to Case if they accepted her. This waitlist thing is strange.

If you’re a VA resident sticking with UVA is a no brainer.

Why is it a no brainer? Cost isn't everything.

UVA is a far better school. I also find it strange to consider Case for anything in comparison to UVA.

Why consider a school other than UVA? For so many, the experience of meeting people from different parts of the country and living in a new area is an extremely positive one for growth and development. For the N. VA student, UVA really is "the 13th year of high school".

My DS doesn't even know the kids in his own school that got accepted to UVA too. I think there's only 6 of them too. That's not exactly the 13th year of HS>

It isn't about knowing specific kids but instead about being exposed to different backgrounds, areas, traditions, etc. With the vast majority of those at UVA being from the same geographical area that is just not going to happen than it will at a school elsewhere. Nothing awful about that and I have had one attend and thrive at UVA but the logistics are what they are.