Last year my friend’s son got of the waitlist for Wisconsin on May 26th. He’s finishing his freshman year there and loves it. FWIW.
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Parent of twins that were WL almost everywhere in UC system (CA residents). Saw some great OOS schools during spring break, but would be great to get off the WL’s (Davis, SD, LA, SB). Just not sure how this FAFSA debacle and extended dates is going to play out wrt getting off the WL this year. Could see argument for WL acceptances going up this year, but also arguments against. We’ll see I suppose…
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Best of luck to your twins @cyp238ress ! That must be hard at double the uncertainty🤞🏼
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UConn just extended their deadline by a month to June 1st. I imagine that school will then look to its waitlist after that deadline. So school by school on coming off the waitlist
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We are in CA, and my son is on the UW Madison waitlist. It’s his first choice.
So I’m not crazy for checking every day then. 
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Worrying about whether there will be a lot of waitlist movement this year or not will not change the final outcome.
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I’m pretty surprised that UVA, as a very selective university with high relative yield, is already dipping into their waitlist.
I don’t want to read too much into this anecdote, but it feeds my suspicion that, in an uncertain environment (FAFSA changing aid calculations and divergent decision days), colleges were more conservative in admitting students and more likely to dip into their waitlist. I doubt this will be universally true across all institutions, but maybe true, on average?
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MIT admitted ~15 more students EA+RA this year than last year. I do find this a bit surprising, because assuming the exact same yield rate this year, they will be pulling ~15-20 from the waitlist, which is their normal amount. But this year, due to the FAFSA disaster and SCOTUS ruling, yield rate will be anything but the same, and you’d expect them to be more conservative and waitlist many students they’d normally admit to avoid overenrollment.
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I hope that’s true instead of the other way around. Same argument can be made to say they admitted more this year thinking their yield will drop due to uncertain cost factor.
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nevermind
My son said that University of Washington admitted someone from his class off the WL as well.
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We were invited of UofSC waitlist on 3/27!!! 
After being told no notification updates until May 15th. Huge wrinkle in our planning.
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Daughter told me today that she no longer cares if she gets off the Wisco waitlist. Love the school that loves you back I guess!
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Just remember, back in 2020, people thought there would be huge WL movement due to Covid. That really didn’t happen. I wouldn’t assume that the events of this year will have a large impact.
2020 had huge waitlist movement as people deferred entrance …
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Probably indicates that preliminary yield of those admits who indicated matriculating to UVA or definitely not matriculating to UVA is falling significantly short of expected yield.
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Also sending twins support! I’m on the other side of the US with twins as well, S24 & S24, and don’t quite get the UC system but I def understand application and decision stress x 2. I hope your kids get off some of those lists!
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Cornell was 190, Northwestern 108, Princeton 26, UVA 165. And that impacted everyone. People were not even sure if fall term was going to happen. At 100% meets needs schools, a FASFA issue(the ones talked about on CC)will likely have little impact.
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Are you in-state or OOS for university of Washington?
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