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...dancer--ballet six times a week, modern twice, jazz once--and Columbia University in New York City would give her access not only to an exceptional ballet program at its sister school Barnard but also to the epicenter of the dance world. Unfortunately, Columbia has put her on the waitlist. Though she's not whining about her wealth of options, Simon, a senior at Noble and Greenough School, is holding out hope for Columbia, at least through mid-June. "I ended up getting into a lot of great schools," says Simon, "just not the one that would make me disregard...
...they most likely increased this school year. No surprise then that many schools are logging record-low admissions rates. Columbia, for example, let in 8.7% of applicants, compared with 10.4% in 2007. And more schools are hedging their bets by upping the number of applicants they put on the waitlist. That's because the most talented students will probably have offers from multiple schools, but they can attend, of course, only...
Even the most selective colleges end up using the waitlist to fill out their classes. In 2006, colleges admitted on average 29% of students from the waitlist. For the schools, that's not a bad thing. Rather than assign waitlisters a numeric rank and pluck them from the top in order, most schools reassess the whole pool of kids to try to ensure a well-rounded campus. "It's a great way to shape the class and meet our institutional priorities," says Dick Nesbitt, director of admissions at Williams College. "Maybe we could use a few more artists...
...definitely the most competitive of the 25 years we have data for,” he said. Shain suggested that recent trends in higher education like refurbished financial aid packages have made it more difficult to predict yields. “There could be quite a lot of waitlist action because so many schools are doing things differently than in the past,” he said. “No one knows what kind of impact that will have.” Expansions in financial aid may have played a role in the record number of applicants at Dartmouth...
...term bills, but are set and collected entirely within the Co-op. As a result, the savings from board are even more dramatic: $690 at the Co-op versus $2,309 in residential housing. With such steep savings, it seems obvious why there’s always a waitlist of students vying for a spot in the Center for High Energy Metaphysics, as the sign out front of one of the buildings reads. But it’s unclear whether it is ultimately the low-price or group love of the Dudley Co-op that attracts multitudes of Harvard students...