Word: waitlist
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...colleges cannot be confident that all the students they accept under early decision will enroll, they would need to waitlist more applicants to fill the slots left vacant by students who renege on their early decision agreement...
This group of students, known within Byerly Hall as the “Z-list,” are plucked off the waitlist any time from May to August—after they have accepted offers of admission at other universities—and informed that if they are willing to take a year off, they can enroll at Harvard the following September...
...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...