Word: waitlist
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...admitted to Harvard off the waitlist, and took a year off before enrolling in 2000. Once through the door, even the chairman of the Harvard Corporation couldn’t give Fitzgerald an edge in the housing lottery. After being exiled to Pennypacker as a first-year, Fitzgerald was shipped off to the Quad last year in Pforzheimer house, and now resides in Jordan...
...they could no longer be certain that students they accepted early would attend, they would have to accept and waitlist more students under regular decision...
...virtue of being on the waitlist, Z-list students are by definition borderline candidates, part of the mass of eminently qualified applicants Harvard typically does not have room to accept. That they are capable of excelling at Harvard is not in question...
...Harvard] certainly is not digging down into the dregs of the waitlist,” he says. “I would submit that these kids who are Z-listed are as strong as everybody else...
Other selective universities will often simply “buckle” and take such well-qualified legacies off the waitlist to enroll immediately, according to Ali Bhanji, Melvoin’s successor as director of college guidance at Roxbury Latin...