<p>to be honest, what i think is that a lot of schools are waitlisting a lot of their applicants, simply because they do not want to be considered ivy reject schools. for example, i know that wash u waitlisted a lot of their stellar applicants/ uninterested applicants simply to build a strong freshman class that actually CARED about wash u. emory may be doing the exact same thing, or there may be other reasons that emory is acting the way it is.</p>