Calculation regarding wait-list: Do they indicate no hope?

i_wanna_be_Brown
Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:40:43 +0000

also, many kids sending in their cards to Brown are on waitlists at other schools. There will be a cascade of withdrawls and waitlist admits at the beginning of may as say, a kid waitlisted at Harvard coming to Brown gets in, so he pulls out, then Brown goes to the waitlists, lets you in, you pull out from your other school, which now has to go to it’s waitlist, etc.