<p>We showed love to all her waitlisted schools, same with her GC. Last year we were lucky that Cornell and Duke miscalculated their yields, so they had to go to their waitlists, Stanford and many other schools didn’t. Our daughter received a very non-descript email from Duke asking her if she would like to receive their acceptance package. Cornell called her GC and wanted answer straigh away. </p>
<p>I think many more schools will go to their waitlists this year due to many more of Princeton and Harvard’s EA/ED candidates in the RD pool this pool. I figure if each of those applicants that would have normally accepted Princeton or Harvard’s ED/EA (assume 700) applied to 10 schools, then they would be turning down (700x 10) - 700 = 6300 spots. I am not certain if lower tier schools would have accepted more students to acct for that because if they assumed incorrectly then they could end up having more students than available space. I would check to see how many(not %) students your waitlisted school has accepted relative to last year. If it’s the same, then it’s a good chance they will go to waitlist.</p>