<p>Don’t lose hope!! Let’s wait for April 1.</p>
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<p>Hey daddy-o, why the animus? I don’t get it. You seem like the kind of “dad who cares” about stuff that is none of his business to make yourself feel special.</p>
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<p>So what? Tons of 2nd-rate schools try to “aim for the top.” The difference is that some do so with integrity; some don’t.</p>
<p>Well I hope many people who are waitlisted find a place they love. But Wash U was my dream school…</p>
<p>@greenseaturtles
As you can tell, I’m fairly new to CC, so when the WashU waitlisting “controversy” started a couple of weeks ago I read all the comments with an open mind. I looked at the limited data available and decided that there was not enough evidence to suggest that WashU was resorting to waitlisting in an effort to boost yield and/or rankings–the so-called Tufts syndrome.</p>
<p>Since then, I saw similar threads emerge in connection with other schools, most recently Rice and even Swarthmore. Surely you don’t consider Rice and Swarthmore 2nd rate schools that engage in some cruel numbers game… The truth is, although stats can only get one so far when it comes to being admitted to a highly selective school, there will always be applicants who will consider a top 20 school a safety, only to be disappointed.</p>
<p>For the record, S was admitted to WashU, Rice, Pomona, Davidson, Washington & Lee, USC, among others, and waitlisted at Swarthmore. For him, being admitted to WashU doesn’t seem to have been a harbinger of rejections at his other schools.</p>
<p>DadWhoCares: Why are you on here arguing with 17 year olds who are ranting about not getting into WuSTL? If you honestly think you’re the more mature one, then, no offense, you shouldn’t be the one arguing. People will always complain about why they didn’t get in and bash schools. I got waitlisted at WuSTL but I don’t consider it a school trying to increase its rank because of that. “Let barking dogs bark.”</p>
<p>That being said, WuSTL has had a history of waitlisting many students who DO end up going to better schools and that is a fact. I personally don’t feel I will be getting into an Ivy League school but there will be many who were waitlisted at WuSTL and will get in somewhere tomorrow.</p>
<p>Dadwhocares why are there so many moms and dads on CC anyway? It puzzles me that parents would even post to this site. </p>
<p>I saw a comment on the Wellesley site where a mom was giving advice on how her daughter got off the waitlist…LAST YEAR? Frankly, it made me think twice that maybe people answering and posting to Wellesley are not real.</p>
<p>“why are there so many moms and dads on CC anyway?”</p>
<p>LOL, SrlkHolmes, maybe you think parents should just sign the tuition check and make themselves otherwise invisible 
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<p>Anyway, CC is open to students, parents, alumni, college counselors, etc. That’s what makes it such a valuable source of information. For example, parents of current USC students post all kinds of helpful information and advice on the USC forum and get thanked by current applicants all the time. And who knows, maybe some waitlisted student will actually benefit from that information posted on the Wellesley forum…</p>
<p>Yeah probably the info is useful. I just think that if I had a kid and they got into a school, I wouldn’t be so motivated to stay on CC a full year later 
But I am not a partent, so who knows how they think.</p>
<p>Getting off any waitlist seems to be a feat.</p>
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<p>My statement allows for the possibility that other schools also practice yield protection. That said, neither Rice nor Swarthmore seems to waitlist more applicants than they accept and/or deny. If you look at their forums, there are not multiple waitlist threads year in and year out. Furthermore, Rice is fully transparent about its waitlist numbers. In fact, it took no one off the waitlist last year.</p>
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<p>Congratulations to your son. But with all due respect, none of these schools are HYPSM or even non-HYP ivies. So his acceptance does not speak to the present argument.</p>
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<p>Thanks, greenseaturtles, and sorry if I misunderstood what the argument was about. I thought we were talking about highly selective schools in general, not just the Ivies. For example, Pomona, Swarthmore, and Washington & Lee had lower acceptance rates in 2009 than UPenn and Cornell, with WashU, USC, and Rice following and within 1% or 2% of Cornell’s. I think that admission to ANY of these schools, whether Ivy or non-Ivy, should be viewed as hard to predict.</p>
<p>BTW, good luck to all of you waiting for the decisions from the Ivies tomorrow!</p>
<p>You’re right. No more comments to/about turtle guy. He obviously had a bad experience of some kind vis Wash U, so sorry for picking on him.</p>
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<p>Someone’s off his meds.</p>
<p>Gotta love ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>I don’t see how dadwhocares is ■■■■■■■■. I think greenseaturtles is the one-- this poster has several times aimed barbs at WashU. </p>
<p>greenseaturtles you gotta stop bashing on WashU. It’ll be good for karma. </p>
<p>I think it’s hard to deny that WashU is an excellent school and fulling deserving of its place in academia. Those who say otherwise often have not even been to the school, nor have gotten the WashU experience.</p>
<p>I didn’t say dadwhocares was ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Sorry atemporal. I had a feeling you meant greenseaturtles was ■■■■■■■■ but wasn’t sure.
<em>extends hand of friendship</em>
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<p>Gotta love tufts syndrome.</p>
<p>gotta love greenseaturtles who spends time on CC bashing colleges or specific schools</p>
<p>What is the motive?</p>
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<p>Perhaps. You might consider it to be ensuring high matriculation rates, but just because your region had incidentally high waitlist numbers does not mean the entire population suffered the same fate.</p>