Anonymous
05/05/2026 12:02
Subject: Waitlist Movements
a kid off ND waitlist last night. I think a counselor call may have been involved.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 11:59
Subject: Waitlist Movements
know a full pay boy who got off Vassar WL yesterday and took the spot over Wash U (so maybe that WL will move too)
Anonymous
05/05/2026 11:56
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ahhh!! All these waitlist movements but DC hasn’t heard anything from his 4 schools. Sigh 😔
Note that most are saying that they know people who have gotten off a waitlist or can confirm movement, but most are not saying that their kid was contacted. Again, it’s not just hyperbole, most of the toughest admits waitlist large numbers of kids and somewhere less than 10% and often much less than 5% get in.
Some years zero get off the HPYS waitlists.
Seriously hoping not this year.
Princeton already moved right?
No
Some mom claimed it did but that was shutdown. I think they confused a spring commit athlete with a WL. There is nothing out there on Reddit or elsewhere that indicate any movement.
Other than Cornell I’ve yet to hear about any Ivies moving yet. Cornell is different because it has 10k more undergrads than other ivies and has a second year transfer-admit program.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 11:54
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ahhh!! All these waitlist movements but DC hasn’t heard anything from his 4 schools. Sigh 😔
Note that most are saying that they know people who have gotten off a waitlist or can confirm movement, but most are not saying that their kid was contacted. Again, it’s not just hyperbole, most of the toughest admits waitlist large numbers of kids and somewhere less than 10% and often much less than 5% get in.
Some years zero get off the HPYS waitlists.
Seriously hoping not this year.
Princeton already moved right?
No
Some mom claimed it did but that was shutdown. I think they confused a spring commit athlete with a WL. There is nothing out there on Reddit or elsewhere that indicate any movement.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 11:53
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ahhh!! All these waitlist movements but DC hasn’t heard anything from his 4 schools. Sigh 😔
Note that most are saying that they know people who have gotten off a waitlist or can confirm movement, but most are not saying that their kid was contacted. Again, it’s not just hyperbole, most of the toughest admits waitlist large numbers of kids and somewhere less than 10% and often much less than 5% get in.
Some years zero get off the HPYS waitlists.
Seriously hoping not this year.
Princeton already moved right?
No
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:27
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Word is many top tier publics are already full with little WL activity expected.
DC has gotten off of 3 wait lists since April 30/ May 1. All of them are schools mentioned on this thread. I'm really surprised, as this was not the case at all with DC1 five years ago and DC2 three years ago.
We are rethinking the deposit put down last week and plan to visit at least one of these other schools.
Wow. That's amazing. Congratulations.
Can you say what schools, and also your DC's major?
Good luck.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:20
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Word is many top tier publics are already full with little WL activity expected.
DC has gotten off of 3 wait lists since April 30/ May 1. All of them are schools mentioned on this thread. I'm really surprised, as this was not the case at all with DC1 five years ago and DC2 three years ago.
We are rethinking the deposit put down last week and plan to visit at least one of these other schools.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:17
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Word is many top tier publics are already full with little WL activity expected.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:17
Subject: Waitlist Movements
I think it makes sense they're moving before may 1st. Fill the class earlier if they always go to waitlist and win over students before they're too mentally committed to their current schools.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:05
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This all seems VERY early to me. So much movement from top schools.
Reddit is saying Yale moved too. Compared to years past, it is unusual.
Maybe its bc they all cross-admitted?
Can you explain why this is early? I would have thought schools would have most of their numbers by May 1.
Last year many “top” schools started moving after May 5.
So, when people are saying this is early, they mean early by a couple of days? That makes more sense to me - a couple of days to figure out where the gaps are? Or do wait-lists usually move in June? I am trying to understand what more information colleges are gathering. They have all the numbers by May 1. They have the wait-list and all the LOCIs. I would have expected most wait-list offers to go out in early May.
They extend offers off the waitlist to people that fill a hole in the incoming class. If they need more boys from VA; girls in STEM; more rural kids; Classics majors; etc. So they have to figure out what they are missing once they see who they yielded and then go back to the WL kids and see who fills the gap. This usually takes 2 weeks (admissions doesn’t work on the weekends). May 12-15th is about normal to start seeing a lot. If they are pulling before May 1 or right away, their yield was way off and they already started figuring out who they wanted.
The list of top schools moving in April seemed higher than last 2 years.
Actually seems less to me.
That college confi link seems to think it's more and earlier.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:03
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This all seems VERY early to me. So much movement from top schools.
Reddit is saying Yale moved too. Compared to years past, it is unusual.
Maybe its bc they all cross-admitted?
Can you explain why this is early? I would have thought schools would have most of their numbers by May 1.
Last year many “top” schools started moving after May 5.
So, when people are saying this is early, they mean early by a couple of days? That makes more sense to me - a couple of days to figure out where the gaps are? Or do wait-lists usually move in June? I am trying to understand what more information colleges are gathering. They have all the numbers by May 1. They have the wait-list and all the LOCIs. I would have expected most wait-list offers to go out in early May.
They extend offers off the waitlist to people that fill a hole in the incoming class. If they need more boys from VA; girls in STEM; more rural kids; Classics majors; etc. So they have to figure out what they are missing once they see who they yielded and then go back to the WL kids and see who fills the gap. This usually takes 2 weeks (admissions doesn’t work on the weekends). May 12-15th is about normal to start seeing a lot. If they are pulling before May 1 or right away, their yield was way off and they already started figuring out who they wanted.
The list of top schools moving in April seemed higher than last 2 years.
Actually seems less to me.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:01
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This all seems VERY early to me. So much movement from top schools.
Reddit is saying Yale moved too. Compared to years past, it is unusual.
Maybe its bc they all cross-admitted?
Can you explain why this is early? I would have thought schools would have most of their numbers by May 1.
Last year many “top” schools started moving after May 5.
So, when people are saying this is early, they mean early by a couple of days? That makes more sense to me - a couple of days to figure out where the gaps are? Or do wait-lists usually move in June? I am trying to understand what more information colleges are gathering. They have all the numbers by May 1. They have the wait-list and all the LOCIs. I would have expected most wait-list offers to go out in early May.
They extend offers off the waitlist to people that fill a hole in the incoming class. If they need more boys from VA; girls in STEM; more rural kids; Classics majors; etc. So they have to figure out what they are missing once they see who they yielded and then go back to the WL kids and see who fills the gap. This usually takes 2 weeks (admissions doesn’t work on the weekends). May 12-15th is about normal to start seeing a lot. If they are pulling before May 1 or right away, their yield was way off and they already started figuring out who they wanted.
The list of top schools moving in April seemed higher than last 2 years.
It's just a snowball effect. A few move, the rest don't want to be late.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 09:39
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Tulane updated WL applicants yesterday that for all practical purposes fall 2030 class is full and while WL will remain open offers are highly unlikely.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 08:15
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This all seems VERY early to me. So much movement from top schools.
Reddit is saying Yale moved too. Compared to years past, it is unusual.
Maybe its bc they all cross-admitted?
Can you explain why this is early? I would have thought schools would have most of their numbers by May 1.
Last year many “top” schools started moving after May 5.
So, when people are saying this is early, they mean early by a couple of days? That makes more sense to me - a couple of days to figure out where the gaps are? Or do wait-lists usually move in June? I am trying to understand what more information colleges are gathering. They have all the numbers by May 1. They have the wait-list and all the LOCIs. I would have expected most wait-list offers to go out in early May.
They extend offers off the waitlist to people that fill a hole in the incoming class. If they need more boys from VA; girls in STEM; more rural kids; Classics majors; etc. So they have to figure out what they are missing once they see who they yielded and then go back to the WL kids and see who fills the gap. This usually takes 2 weeks (admissions doesn’t work on the weekends). May 12-15th is about normal to start seeing a lot. If they are pulling before May 1 or right away, their yield was way off and they already started figuring out who they wanted.
The list of top schools moving in April seemed higher than last 2 years.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 08:14
Subject: Waitlist Movements
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ahhh!! All these waitlist movements but DC hasn’t heard anything from his 4 schools. Sigh 😔
Note that most are saying that they know people who have gotten off a waitlist or can confirm movement, but most are not saying that their kid was contacted. Again, it’s not just hyperbole, most of the toughest admits waitlist large numbers of kids and somewhere less than 10% and often much less than 5% get in.
Some years zero get off the HPYS waitlists.
Seriously hoping not this year.
Princeton already moved right?