<p>Someone at my school got off of Lafayette list. So I suppose it is active as well.</p>
<p>Bard
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
California Polytechnic State University
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Duke
Elon University
Emory
Georgetown
Hamilton College
Ithaca College
Juilliard (violin specifically; not sure of other disciplines)
Loyola Maryland
Middlebury College
Princeton
Providence College
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute (RPI)
Rice
Texas A&M University
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Miami
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Washington & Lee
Yale</p>
<p>Adding Georgia Tech–a classmate just got off there.</p>
<p>Bard
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
California Polytechnic State University
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Duke
Elon University
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Hamilton College
Ithaca College
Juilliard (violin specifically; not sure of other disciplines)
Loyola Maryland
Middlebury College
Princeton
Providence College
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute (RPI)
Rice
Texas A&M University
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Miami
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Washington & Lee
Yale</p>
<p>Adding Tulane - know of someone off the waitlist who now plans to attend…</p>
<p>Bard
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
California Polytechnic State University
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Duke
Elon University
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Hamilton College
Ithaca College
Juilliard (violin specifically; not sure of other disciplines)
Loyola Maryland
Middlebury College
Princeton
Providence College
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute (RPI)
Rice
Texas A&M University
Tulane
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Miami
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Washington & Lee
Yale</p>
<p>Wow, thats surprising, fendrock, since Tulane is overenrolled (they’ve received 1687 paid deposits for a class of 1500-1550). Every school suffers a little “summer melt” (attrition) with waitlist movement or other reasons for summer dropout, but its surprising that Tulane would go to the waitlist when already overenrolled by well over 100 students and they are also having a little bit of a housing crunch.</p>
<p>Adding Furman to the list</p>
<p>Bard
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
California Polytechnic State University
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Duke
Elon University
Emory
Furman
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Hamilton College
Ithaca College
Juilliard (violin specifically; not sure of other disciplines)
Loyola Maryland
Middlebury College
Princeton
Providence College
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute (RPI)
Rice
Texas A&M University
Tulane
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Miami
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Washington & Lee
Yale</p>
<p>Didn’t many of the colleges on this list claim they don’t prioritize their WL’s and that they would start the WL selection process after May 1st (or May 3rd) when they know for sure they need to go to their WL? How can they immediately pick kids off their non-prioritized WL’s of hundreds or thousands just couple days after May 3rd? In the competition for better students, I guess there must be an advantage in getting to the WL sooner.</p>
<p>In contrast, I think MIT is much more honest and transparent. They determined they need to go to their non-prioritized WL yesterday and told their WL’d students it’ll take them a couple weeks to go through the selection.</p>
<p>I predict there’ll scarcely be a college in the country that won’t be going to their waitlist this year.</p>
<p>I seems that Lafayette needs to be added to the list… someone posted late last night that there was movement on their waitlist.</p>
<p>Different colleges handle their WL differently. Some do not prioritize, some pre-rank their WL. So depending on the college. My son is waiting on a school that does not prioritize and to date, they have not been listed as going to their WL yet. We are hoping we hear they have begun today or tomorrow, but most likely it would be next week at the earliest.</p>
<p>This is all ridiculous and not sustainable long-term. Everyone’s admitting fewer people for the sake of a low admissions rate, yield isn’t up to par, so then they go to their wait lists. It’s a whole 'nother admission cycle season. It’s completely ridiculous. They need to back the train up. Applications due Jan 15 - decisions March 1. Then let this all take place during April as opposed to May.</p>
<p>updating for Lafayette:</p>
<p>Bard
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
California Polytechnic State University
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Duke
Elon University
Emory
Furman
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Hamilton College
Ithaca College
Juilliard (violin specifically; not sure of other disciplines)
Lafayette College
Loyola Maryland
Middlebury College
Princeton
Providence College
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute (RPI)
Rice
Texas A&M University
Tulane
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Miami
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Washington & Lee
Yale</p>
<p>I agree. Let the kids know earlier so they can make their plans.</p>
<p>updating for Smith College from a posting in their forum:</p>
<p>Bard
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
California Polytechnic State University
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Duke
Elon University
Emory
Furman
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Hamilton College
Ithaca College
Juilliard (violin specifically; not sure of other disciplines)
Lafayette College
Loyola Maryland
Middlebury College
Princeton
Providence College
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute (RPI)
Rice
Smith College
Texas A&M University
Tulane
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Miami
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Washington & Lee
Yale</p>
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<p>It would be quite interesting to know the schools that are accepting far fewer applicants in the regular cycle than they have the realistic hopes of obtaining given their yield patterns. Perhaps US News and World report should use a magnifier (1.x) on each kid accepted off a school’s wait list to show a truer yield. That change might stop much of this nonsense particularly for a UC school accepting hundreds off their waiting list.</p>
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<p>Good luck to your son. However, I truly wonder about these schools that say they don’t prioritize. Perhaps for some schools, it’s just a bit of word-smithing/semantics where they can say with a straight face that the list is not prioritized but each admissions officer comes to the meeting with his or her top candidates already prioritized. Certainly after the Regular decision are made there has to be kids that just missed the cut. After all of that hard work to decide on a class to then TRULY start from scratch again is so mind-blowingly idiotic, that I would really wonder whether I’d want to trust such a school with my kid’s education.</p>
<p>Well, to me a waitlist should be truly those handful of kids “on the bubble.” So a school with more than a hundred on a waitlist isn’t really creating a waitlist at all. Either have the cojones to reject them, or accept them. This is all let-me-wait-around-and-see.</p>
<p>Looks like Williams will be taking a few off its WL.</p>
<p>[Admission</a> yield exceeds 44% : The Williams Record](<a href=“The Williams Record – The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887”>The Williams Record – The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887)</p>
<p>Reading the article Williams is close to their goal. They want a class size of 550 and already have 533 with more responses “trickling in”. As they said they would expect some students to defer or some to get off other waitlists, so how far above 550 will they go on the waitlist to ensure their yield is protected? I would guess that means they would take 20 at a minimum, maybe 50 at a maximum?</p>
<p>p’girl,
Not so sure that this is such an easy thing to do. Yes, the system is out of control and perhaps some colleges do like to brag about their low acceptance rates, but IMO much more important is the fact that as unpredictable as this process has become for applicants, it may be even more so for the Adcomms. If you were in their chair, I suspect you’d also opt for greater use of the WL.</p>
<p>First, they get a lot of very good apps. Admit/Deny/WL is not so easy when you have so many qualified applicants (at least on paper). Second, Adcomms increasingly don’t know who’s going to come due to a variety of factors (not least of which is the increasingly important financial component) and this is a further reason to admit fewer and waitlist more. Third, if these colleges really do want to “build a class,” then the current process makes plenty of sense to me as they can use the WL to flesh out the areas that they have identified as short. This includes the publics who are definitely using the WL as a way to increase revenue via offering admission to OOS students and perhaps developmental students (this is also happening with privates). </p>
<p>I think that until the applicant patterns change, we’re likely to see these WL assignments being used more actively by the colleges.</p>
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<p>Overall, I agree with you but it does depend where a college sits in the ‘pecking order’ of things. So, there is a lot more potential variability for a college ‘down the list’ so to speak. Also, even an increase in the average of applications submitted by just (1) one more is not just one more app. It’s an exponential increase in the complexity of the process. </p>
<p>So, waiting lists like Duke and Carnegie Mellon … just awful. Meanwhile they will be teaching classes about the ‘ethical treatment’ of this or that. They should take their own classes. Meanwhile, word spreads like wildfire when a school goes to its wait list, even if it’s just for one kid and hope becomes just another four letter word.</p>