Ethics of Huge Waitlists

gardenstategal
Fri, 13 May 2022 20:37:16 +0000

Many schools reduce the WL over time so that the “extended list” for summer is shorter.

The person on hold waiting to climb a few rungs on the list is precisely the type I referred to above who needs to understand how this works. Someone shared a letter from a school (Brown?) to its WL students telling them that they should be getting excited about the school where they had deposited. Nobody should put their life on hold because they are on a WL.