"… Most of the schools on the list are either National Universities – meaning that they offer a range of undergraduate majors plus master’s and doctoral programs – or National Liberal Arts Colleges, which emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines.
All but two of the colleges on the list also rank within the top 50 in their categories.
Below are the 10 colleges that had the highest percentage of applicants placed on a waitlist for fall 2015." …
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2017-01-17/10-colleges-where-the-most-applicants-are-wait-listed
40% of applicants to the wait list is quite a bit.
Even if the colleges have a hard time predicting yield, do they need wait lists that big?
I was expecting University of Chicago on that list.
Surprised to see Kenyon there.
Maybe the statistic should be waitlist as a percentage of the freshman class.
Chicago would come in at almost 300-400%
Although Lehigh was in that range…