How do waitlists fit into how colleges report numbers? Assuming colleges only admit waitlisted students they feel pretty sure will attend, do they work sort of like early decisions, but on the back end of the process?
<p>NACAC Admission Strategies - Wait Lists
Chapter Three of the Report of the National Association for College Admission Counseling reviews the uses of Wait Lists by Colleges
<a href=“http://www.nacac.com/downloads/ch3_adstrat.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nacac.com/downloads/ch3_adstrat.pdf</a></p>
<p>Table 29 on page 36 notes that in 2004 about 34% of Colleges used wait lists while 66% did not and that the number of colleges using wait lists has remained relatively constant over the last eight years.
For more selective schools acceptance from a wait list is still a long shot
Table 31 on page 37 indicates, a students’ chances of admission off a wait list for different types of colleges.</p>
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<p>This thread has stats on how some colleges use their wait lists
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=45272[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=45272</a></p>
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<p>Colleges Basically use wait lists to fill their classes, so that they don’t end up with too few or too many students enrolling in a given year. Too few and they are wasting resources, too many and they have triple occupancy of double size dorm rooms amoung other problems.</p>