<p>What is a “personality defect”? A lot of times it’s just that the adcom who pulled your file doesn’t like you. Or s/he has been reading apps all day and you unluckily got pulled late in the day. Or they want this other kid more because he was funny in his essay and rides the unicycle.</p>
<p>It’s not a total crapshoot–we call it that because short of eavesdropping on the deliberations, none of us can ever really know what causes a school to take one kid over another. People are fickle and not always logical, and adcoms are no exception to that.</p>
<p>You were waitlisted: that means they thought you were qualified and wanted you in the class…they just thought 600-odd people were more qualified/wanted them more. Don’t read into it too much.</p>