<p>Being waitlisted can mean one of three things.<br>
- You are denied, but they don’t want to actually say so for fear of offending someone such as your GC, your rich parents, or the volunteer alumni who interviewed you and liked you so much.
- You were close and tried so hard that they want to give you a consolation prize so that you don’t feel so bad.
- You were as good as anybody else that they accepted but they just don’t have room for everybody.</p>
<p>The waitlist situation has gotten totally out of hand. Some schools are waitlisting as many people as they accept, and then end up accepting zero or only a few people from the waitlist. What looks like a kindness is actually a form of cruelty. Colleges are required to provide you with information about the number of people normally waitlisted and then taken off of the waitlist.</p>
<p>cj: Congratuations!</p>