<p>Question:</p>
<p>Is it easier to make it off the waitlist for a less competitive school than it is for a very competitive school, or vice versa, the same, or unclarified?</p>
<p>Well, I’m thinking that the bigger more prestigious the school is (e.g. Exeter), the shorter the Wait-list their more likely to keep, as the yield rate is very high and they really do not need a large waitlist. However, for maybe a lesser-known school like, say NMH, their waitlists will be longer as they know people are bound to reject them. </p>
<p>But, I’m guessing it varies from year-to-year. You never know if this year Exeter will lose a lot of their students to Andover or maybe NMH does a fantastic job at the Revisit Days really impresses their students-to-be.</p>
<p>NMH may not have a longer wait list - they realize their yield will be lower and so accept more students to begin with - this may be an odd year due to the economy - but in general, schools are fairly accurate in predicting their yields and accepting an appropriate number of students</p>
<p>At schools that have more competition they may have a shorter list but they have amazing yield.</p>