Waitlists: ranked?

get2langer
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:37:34 +0000

It’s not by chance – it’s that the WL candidates sit in pools. Let’s say there’a a pool for actors for school X with 8 names… And another for Top Science applicants with 25 names. As the matriculating class comes in, five previously accepted actors decline school X’s offer. But only one slot from the science admits remains unfilled.

Five of the eight kids on the actors WL will get follow-on offers. One from the science WL will get an offer. So it’s somewhat random, somewhat not.