Anonymous wrote:I just sent the first semester payment to my kid’s school so there’s no way a last-minute offer from a waitlist will change things. At this point, students have found roommates, selected classes, and finished orientation, so unless a school that has an opening makes it worthwhile ($$$), they’ll have to find another sucker to fill the spot.

I think schools that waitlisted a lot of kids are going to find themselves with vacancies as students reject the spot. Especially this late in the game.

Colleges will refund your money. We had to do that when my son decided at the last minute to take a semester off. They wrote us a check for the full amount back.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know what's going on with Brown's WL? Have they said it's closed? Hearing about quite a few forced triples, which sounds like they purposefully overenrolled to anticipate internationals not coming at the last minute. But who knows.

Current parent, I don't see any signs of more forced tripes than usual on parent page. There are some, don't think many, but I only know about last 2 years. There are two new dorms thankfully that have helped, but it is tough as a city campus and fooprint to expand is only so big without upsetting locals. They did seem to under-enroll my just over 100, don't know why. I believe it is closed.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know what's going on with Brown's WL? Have they said it's closed? Hearing about quite a few forced triples, which sounds like they purposefully overenrolled to anticipate internationals not coming at the last minute. But who knows.

Could you cite a source for that? Thanks!

Anyone know what's going on with Brown's WL? Have they said it's closed? Hearing about quite a few forced triples, which sounds like they purposefully overenrolled to anticipate internationals not coming at the last minute. But who knows.

Interesting. On the opposite of spectrum all of the Cornell WL portals that had disappeared last week, re-emerged as the waitlist is back. Important to know that Cornell has one of the largest international undergraduate populations.

Looks like Harvard waitlist will move or close today, based on portal changes being reported by waitlist warriors on CC...

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Anonymous wrote:Emory closed
Boston College closed
Dartmouth closed

Notre Dame is still open
Cornell too
Harvard
Duke re-opened
?

Dude, it's AUGUST. Move on.

Sure, if you say so. (sarcasm)

If someone wants to wait and see what happens with the waitlists, why not? They're still planning to attend some other college, but if there was ever a year for last minute changes, this is it.

Anonymous wrote:Emory closed
Boston College closed
Dartmouth closed

Notre Dame is still open
Cornell too
Harvard
Duke re-opened
?

Dude, it's AUGUST. Move on.

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Anonymous wrote:From admitted student’s day, it appears BC is overenrolled this Fall and increasing freshman dorm room density.

BC is hot right now!

Yeah with that many kids packed into one room, it’ll be hot there.

Anonymous wrote:From admitted student’s day, it appears BC is overenrolled this Fall and increasing freshman dorm room density.

BC is hot right now!

From admitted student’s day, it appears BC is overenrolled this Fall and increasing freshman dorm room density.

Maybe schools need more money due to taxes on endowments.

An article interviewing a professor at Duke said they are projecting financial losses frim.

1. Having to pay 7% compared to 1.4% tax on endowments.

2. They get money from their hospital so cutting Medicaid means not as much funding as people won’t be able to pay hospital bills if they get dropped from Medicare.

3. Research dollars potentially 200 million dollars getting cut.

So accepting more freshman through turning some double rooms into triples and increasing class size in some classes by a couple of students is an easy way to generate more money.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just sent the first semester payment to my kid’s school so there’s no way a last-minute offer from a waitlist will change things. At this point, students have found roommates, selected classes, and finished orientation, so unless a school that has an opening makes it worthwhile ($$$), they’ll have to find another sucker to fill the spot.

I think schools that waitlisted a lot of kids are going to find themselves with vacancies as students reject the spot. Especially this late in the game.

A decent number of families would double pay the fall to get a spot at HYP, etc. Remember, many of those involved (prep school kids, NYC kids, etc) are have a ton of money. A semester of college tuition is nothing to them.

Well, this just means they have more money than brains. They are being played and yanked around by “selective” schools that don’t necessarily offer a better education or experience.

They have more money than their kids have brains.

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Anonymous wrote:I just sent the first semester payment to my kid’s school so there’s no way a last-minute offer from a waitlist will change things. At this point, students have found roommates, selected classes, and finished orientation, so unless a school that has an opening makes it worthwhile ($$$), they’ll have to find another sucker to fill the spot.

I think schools that waitlisted a lot of kids are going to find themselves with vacancies as students reject the spot. Especially this late in the game.

A decent number of families would double pay the fall to get a spot at HYP, etc. Remember, many of those involved (prep school kids, NYC kids, etc) are have a ton of money. A semester of college tuition is nothing to them.

Well, this just means they have more money than brains. They are being played and yanked around by “selective” schools that don’t necessarily offer a better education or experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did Duke suddenly "find" a decent number of spots (20? 50?) this week and Rice found 10+ and yet other peer schools (Dartmouth, Berkeley, etc) appear confident they are fully enrolled and closed down completely without going to the waitlist at all.

You would think the uncertainty would be equal at peer schools and they would be at a similar point of enrollment at this stage in the game.

So puzzling.

Some schools want to drop their acceptance rate so low that they use the waitlist as yeild management. It backfired this year. Other schools like Emory tend to not use the waitlist in that way.

Wait, do WL acceptances not get factored into yield?

I believe they do not.

Using WL as yield management is like the inverse strategy as using ED, if you think about it.

Brown did that this year. they purposefully under admitted by about 200 kids vs last year and then went to the waitlist to fill these spots.