| Remember it's not the total number of waitlisted students vs you, it's how many students who are in the same category as you vs you. To paraphrase from the Macalester waitlist letter "If you are a bagpipe player from Arkansas and we are looking for a bagpipe player from Arkansas to fill a slot, you might make it off the waitlist."
Although schools say they don't have quotas, they do try to balance the classes in different ways so it really matters who accepts-- and who takes acceptance somewhere else. |