<p>Uchicago is extremely stingy with international aid.
And georgetown is indeed need-blind although they do not meet full demonstrated need (there is a difference between the two if you think about it).</p>
<p>Williams is okayish with international aid. And Gary, it could be wrong to assume they are good with aid because they WL you. It might make sense to assume that they probably would have wanted to select you but waitlisted you because they simply could not afford you. A lot of need aware univs do that to see if you are really interested (by staying on their waitlist) and then make an offer if their budget allows it.</p>
<p>That doesn’t make sense. If their budget allowed it, and if he was qualified, he would have been admitted. If their budget allowed it, but there was someone more qualified, he would be waitlisted. And irrespective of whether their budget allowed it, and if he wasn’t qualified, he would be rejected.
No univ. waitlists hoping their budget will allow it sometime in the future.</p>
<p>“If their budget allowed it, and if he was qualified, he would have been admitted.”
True.</p>
<p>“If their budget allowed it, but there was someone more qualified, he would be waitlisted.”
True.</p>
<p>“And irrespective of whether their budget allowed it, and if he wasn’t qualified, he would be rejected.”
True again.</p>
<p>“No univ. waitlists hoping their budget will allow it sometime in the future.”
Why not?
Sometimes an applicant is qualified enough that the university wants to have him but just can’t do that because of money constraints. In such cases university waitlists- a) To see if the applicant is interested in the university (and just didn’t use it as a backup). b) To wait till May and see if money becomes available later and admit the candidate it wanted to have. This becomes possible if some students with financial aid decline the offer and more full paying students accept the offer.</p>
<p>For example, I was waitlisted at two low level liberal arts college that I had considered as safeties and one decent college that was a match if not a safety. Apart from money issues, there aren’t many reasons I can figure out to explain this thing.</p>