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Are Waiting Lists Out of Control?
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Pakshal_Mehta
May 15, 2018, 3:04pm
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NYU accepted just 150 students… and have closed their waitlist. They had waitlisted 28000 students.
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Excellent article on what a waitlist is and is not (from the GT admissions blog)
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