<p>TTG, drinking the bath water=buying the BS. Most people who make it on to a top college wait list will come nowhere close to matriculating. Some schools use the list to not insult the kids they mail ambushed into applying. Others use them to gently let down legacies (oh please, not me) and the otherwise connected. </p>
<p>This year, to have gotten off a top 10 wait list was truly a miracle. Close, but not nearly close enough. Actually, not much closer than actual rejects, just a little nicer.</p>