Anonymous wrote:My kid's is at a nyc private. A lot of waitlist movement among private school kids - brown, columbia, harvard, northwestern, michigan, cornell, vandy, washu, duke, etc, etc. Every day, they come home to say kid x is now going to college y. They have friends at many different schools, and i can barely keep up. I don't know if this is typical, but lots of great admission news still coming.

Anonymous wrote:Brown seems to be pulling from the WL like crazy. I've seen at least 5 Insta posts from kids who got in.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of movement at Columbia, not much of a surprise given all that has gone on at that school.

Where did you hear that?
There is zero posted anywhere on Reddit, College Confidential, College Navigators or Tineoprep and lots of posts on Reddit of kids asking when/if the waitlist will move since there has been no report of movement (anywhere) since May 16th.

I've read on several sites that Columbia College admissions officers stated on the accepted student days that they "overshot their yield this year" because they admitted 10% more upfront and are overenrolled outright. They are also apparently going to restrict Barnard freshmen from taking Columbia classes this fall because they have too many kids?

The barnard class restriction from certain columbia classes was a policy change planned based on contractual agreements - has nothing to do with yield. I read about it a year ago. Regarding waitlists, yes i heard Columbia accepted more kids (due to yield uncertainty) and still using waitlist. (I'm an alum and follow our class news)

I personally know of 3 students who recently got off the waitlist... At least one decided to stay with the school where she put down a deposit. I don't know about Reddit or the other sites you list.

I really don't believe that you know 3 kids off at Columbia unless maybe you're posting from a NE boarding school (as I heard back in mid May that there were 3 kids taken off then from the same school). There is literally nothing online--on the four corners of the internet-- about waitlist movement over the past week+. And when Brown or Northwestern have moved (as they have) there has been stuff posted everywhere. Tons and tons of posts. The big college Instagramers are saying that Columbia has only moved a tiny trickle of spots. The internet in general is radio silence about it and super puzzled about it because everyone expected a lot of movement. There are several people reporting that college counselors have been told that Columbia really over estimated their yield, especially at the College.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of movement at Columbia, not much of a surprise given all that has gone on at that school.

Where did you hear that?
There is zero posted anywhere on Reddit, College Confidential, College Navigators or Tineoprep and lots of posts on Reddit of kids asking when/if the waitlist will move since there has been no report of movement (anywhere) since May 16th.

I've read on several sites that Columbia College admissions officers stated on the accepted student days that they "overshot their yield this year" because they admitted 10% more upfront and are overenrolled outright. They are also apparently going to restrict Barnard freshmen from taking Columbia classes this fall because they have too many kids?

The barnard class restriction from certain columbia classes was a policy change planned based on contractual agreements - has nothing to do with yield. I read about it a year ago. Regarding waitlists, yes i heard Columbia accepted more kids (due to yield uncertainty) and still using waitlist. (I'm an alum and follow our class news)

I personally know of 3 students who recently got off the waitlist... At least one decided to stay with the school where she put down a deposit. I don't know about Reddit or the other sites you list.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of movement at Columbia, not much of a surprise given all that has gone on at that school.

Where did you hear that?
There is zero posted anywhere on Reddit, College Confidential, College Navigators or Tineoprep and lots of posts on Reddit of kids asking when/if the waitlist will move since there has been no report of movement (anywhere) since May 16th.

I've read on several sites that Columbia College admissions officers stated on the accepted student days that they "overshot their yield this year" because they admitted 10% more upfront and are overenrolled outright. They are also apparently going to restrict Barnard freshmen from taking Columbia classes this fall because they have too many kids?

The barnard class restriction from certain columbia classes was a policy change planned based on contractual agreements - has nothing to do with yield. I read about it a year ago. Regarding waitlists, yes i heard Columbia accepted more kids (due to yield uncertainty) and still using waitlist. (I'm an alum and follow our class news)

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of movement at Columbia, not much of a surprise given all that has gone on at that school.

Where did you hear that?
There is zero posted anywhere on Reddit, College Confidential, College Navigators or Tineoprep and lots of posts on Reddit of kids asking when/if the waitlist will move since there has been no report of movement (anywhere) since May 16th.

I've read on several sites that Columbia College admissions officers stated on the accepted student days that they "overshot their yield this year" because they admitted 10% more upfront and are overenrolled outright. They are also apparently going to restrict Barnard freshmen from taking Columbia classes this fall because they have too many kids?

Anonymous wrote:Lots of movement at Columbia, not much of a surprise given all that has gone on at that school.

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Anonymous wrote:I know one kid who got called from Northwestern, Duke, Brown and Vanderbilt already this month.

They are admitting all the same kids. Not unusual, but in a year with so much international uncertainty, why didn’t they just over admit domestic (with the exact same need profile as international) - some of this looks like poor planning to me.

I’d imagine turnover in these offices (at the top) if any of them under enroll .

My guess is that the uncertainty is what prevented them from over-admitting domestic RD. They have a lot more control admitting via the waitlist.