<p>I've been waitlisted at almost every college I have applied to this year. I swear it's a conspiracy against me. LOL</p>
<p>I've been waitlisted at Johns Hopkins, Cornell (CAS), Vanderbilt, and now UVA. </p>
<p>What in the world is happening?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>A logical implication of more applications per student is that colleges will have more difficulty predicting their yield, so that they will therefore choose to use waitlists more intensively. I have been expecting this to happen for several years. It is too soon to tell for sure, but this may be the case this year.</p>
<p>I am a high school teacher and see this trend as well. Hang in there and show the admissions officers why they should take you off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Just from reading these threads, it seems as though some students got into EVERY school they applied to, it is almost like the same 3500 kids got admitted to ALL the schools!!! :) (leaving the rest of us in waitlist limbo)
Logic would be that there has to be SOME movement on the waitlists, unless the schools were very good at estimating how many students would accept their invitations.</p>
<p>The schools are very good at estimating. Everyone said the same thing last year and wait list acceptances at top schools were very low.</p>
<p>How many years has the common application been used? How many people out there applied to a school that maybe they might not have applied to, if there was not the common app?</p>
<p>I am also waitlisted at pretty much every LAC i applied to.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted at 4 schools, JHU, Brown, Cornell, and Upenn. I was stunned, I really thought getting waitlisted was a rare occurance.</p>
<p>I, too, have been surprised at the number of people I know who have been waitlisted places this year. However, I do not know for sure whether this is truly unusual, or I simply haven't heard much from past waitlisted people.</p>
<p>My D applied to 12 schools due to the common app, otherwise probably would have applied to only half that.</p>
<p>Add me to the list...I've been waitlisted at WashU@STL, Brandeis, and Claremont McKenna so far. I thought waitlisting was rarer.</p>
<p>Perhaps because number of apps has increased everywhere.</p>
<p>sunshadow... how many of those 12 schools did your D get into?</p>