Top Schools Not Pulling From Waitlists

College Search & Selection
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A number of the nation's most-selective universities, including Princeton, Yale and Johns Hopkins, aren't admitting any students at all off their wait lists this spring. And many others are taking only a handful.

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<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05167/522674.stm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05167/522674.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>There are too many brilliant students chasing after the same opportunities.</p>

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<p>northeastern didnt take any either</p>

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<p>Kimmiebee16 - </p>

<p>How do you know about Northeastern?</p>

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<p>an alumni on princeton review said so</p>

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CHAPEL HILL -- Prospective college students hoping to squeeze into one of the last wait-list slots at Duke or UNC may want to seriously consider Plan B.</p>

<p>This isn't the year to hold out too much hope.</p>

<p>At Duke, Carolina and plenty of other top colleges across the country, the response to enrollment offers has proven so great this year that there is little need for many institutions to go to their wait lists to fill holes in this fall's freshman class.</p>

<p>Duke has admitted just 23 applicants off its wait list for the fall, down from 86 last year. UNC's numbers are even more pronounced: A year ago, the state's flagship public university grabbed 249 applicants off its wait list; this year, it won't take any.

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From the Herald-Sun</p>

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<p>that's weird, b/c i was admitted off the waitlist at unc.</p>

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<p>So, really, who's to know if the schools are being entirely upfront about the waitlist. Is UNC just trying to look amazing?</p>

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Syracuse University will stretch its classroom space, student housing and food service this fall as it welcomes as many as 490 more new students than anticipated.</p>

<p>"We were clearly not expecting the numbers to go as high as they are, but it's in the category of what we think of as a positive surprise," said David Smith, SU's vice president for enrollment management. "What it really says is SU is a really hot place right now."</p>

<p>Chancellor Nancy Cantor had asked admissions officials to increase new student enrollment by 100 students, to 3,035, Smith said. Currently, 3,524 students have accepted SU's offer of admission. About 100 to 150 of those students will likely not show up come Aug. 29, the first day of classes, making the increase more manageable, Smith said.

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<a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1120898719192720.xml&coll=1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1120898719192720.xml&coll=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>See what happens when you join the ACC.</p>

<p>thanks to frazzel for the link</p>