Whether or not the CC calls a school may have nothing to do with your daughter and her application. My oldest was waitlisted at GW, and his CC told us the boarding school knew no one admitted to GW that year would be attending. GW always wants someone from the boarding school. So the CC offered to have the Head of School call to get my son off the waitlist.
We did not take up the offer as by then my son decided to attend a different school. But you see it was the fact that no other boarding school kids were attending that made the difference â something we wouldnât have known, or been able to control.
Weâll never know, but my hunch is that kids the kids who are the âluckiestâ in terms of WL acceptances may have the following attributes:
Applied to larger schools. (A school with a freshman class of 500 and one with a class of 5000 will have vastly different absolute numbers of WL offers if they both âmissedâ on yield by the same percentage. )
Applied to schools with more variable yields. The tippiest top of schools have relatively predictable yield compared with more mid-tier schools.
Had something truly notable to add to their file â a big prize, perhaps-- or something that may have addressed a concern in the original file.
No or little need for FA. While there may be empty seats in the class, there may not be FA $ to go with them. Thereâs no doubt that needing FA creates a second hurdle.
For the kid like yours, hoping for one school, there is so much serendipity involved. Itâs very hard to not be able to do anything to âmake your own luckâ. I hope she gets lucky.
Just got off the wait-list at UW Madison! oos, data science
Time to decide, Madison vs Va Tech
The biggest difference is 2.5 hours vs 11 hours away. And Tech isnât as cold but weâre from Chicago so weather isnât a factor.
DS waitlisted as an unhooked RD applicant at Brown (his dream school) received an email yesterday advising him to check his portal. Logged in and was thrilled to see that he was accepted off the WL and has one calendar week to reply to the offer. We live in Europe and the email came at 1030 pm our time / 430 pm Providence. The wait was crushing so sending huge wishes that all you worthy and awesome parents and students have your hopes fulfilled soon.
It might also have more to do with some colleges. A schools with only 500 incoming students who had 1 kid from Alaska choose another school might dip into the waitlist to see if there is another Alaska student available.
A school with 5000 incoming students probably made offers to several Alaska applicants so would have no need for this kind of structuring of the class.
Also once the buckets that the school is looking for are filled, this kind of pulling off the waitlist isnât needed so the next question is likely who can pay, what majors or interests are we in short supply for given the kids who did not accept our offer? People say that schools like Yale donât look at intended major but then why do students who are looking to major in Russian at Yale for instance, as some poster pointed out here, not have to have the same tippy top requirements as a student looking to major in biology as a pre-med?
Interesting. I have seen several students get off the waitlist for Brown this year. Is this unusual? Wondering what the stats are normally as i thought most of the Ivy rarely pull students off the waitlist.
Also is there a recent trend of pulling more students off waitlists at some schools since yield is harder to judge due to the number of applications being sent out?
This is the first year I remember Brown going to the wait list before May 1. One can see waitlist stats in each schoolâs CDS (Q #C2)âŠfor class of 2028 Brown admitted 118 students (we donât know how many enrolled) and Cornell admitted 328. Just to take two examples. CC doesnât get enough student traffic to get a good sense of the waitlist picture for a given school or overall.
Well I guess that could be possible, but often the waitlist yield isnât what it is for the RD round (for highly selective schools.) An admitted student is not the same as an enrolled/matriculated student per industry nomenclature and CDS definitions.
There definitely seems to be more movement with Brown this year, mine was a waitlist acceptance last year so followed it closely. They admitted just over 100 less this year also, perhaps why weâre seeing this?