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<li><p>Colleges have become adept at sticking an extra bed somewhere, and lots of things can happen to kids between May and September that free up a space or two. So I don’t think the numbers are ever exact-exact.</p></li>
<li><p>The kid with the double-waitlist acceptance? I’m sure it has happened, or will happen, sometime in the history of the universe. But probably about as frequently as the monkeys randomly typing Hamlet. (What that kid should do is IMMEDIATELY buy a Powerball ticket.)</p></li>
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