Considering Deposit at Two Universities Due to the Unknown - Anyone Else?

[Mwfan1921]

@SJ2727

@Mwfan1921

Good luck with the waitlist, there very well might be more students getting off waitlists this year than in previous years…mostly due to students not able to attend any more for financial reasons. Schools won’t be able to meet all of the ‘professional judgment’ requests they are currently receiving.

I haven’t looked at the numbers across colleges in depth for this year, but I know the college my daughter is at made more absolute admits than last year for the same number of expected students, so it seems part of that is already accounted for in the calculations. I have no idea what the size of their waitlist is (it’s not been on the CDS), but a lot of people on CC are also waitlisted there. However the FAQ says that in the past, between zero and “hundreds” of students have come off it - in that context, the 700 extra admits this year looks pretty ample.

I see this “more waitlist likely to come off” this year being cited often here on CC, but if many schools also expected lower yield and made more admits as a result - then that may not actually be the case.

I agree that it’s not a blanket statement…waitlist use will likely vary by school.

Some schools released RD decisions before the pandemic became a ‘thing’, while others released after it became apparent that it would be bad. The schools in the former bucket are more likely to not have over accepted, while the second group may have increased their admits as you mentioned.

The schools that over admitted are also the ones that may be less likely to extend their May 1 deadline. I listened to a webinar where a UCLA director of admission said no way they will extend the deadline to June 1 because if they did they would be over enrolled.