UW Wait-list story update

barrons
Fri, 23 May 2008 11:29:55 +0000

boomer–yes, that’s what good schools do. Also as the article noted predicting yield has gotten much harder as kids apply to 10-20 school instead of the old 3-5. And they may be on more than one wait-list so it’s very hard to tell who will actually enroll. Some of the early UW admits might be on the wait-list at an IVY or similar school. If they get the call from Cornell they might drop UW creating an open spot at UW. In the past the eltite schools never took people from the waitlist–now harvard is taking 200. That’s 200kids dropping their other school.