<p>I agree. I don't think it's a good thing either. When all these schools' yield rates drop and they have to take 300 people off the waitlist, they may change their minds.</p>
<p>I applied to Duke, Williams, and Cornell pretty much on a whim because they were on a common app, I wouldve gone to Berkeley over all three of them, and I was pretty sure I'd get in. I was accepted to all three, and I'm not considering any of them. It really was a mistake to apply, but the common app simply made it too easy.</p>