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Top Colleges – Waitlists, Acceptance Rates and Yields

Earlier this year, I wrote a post about my daughter’s experience with getting waitlisted by The University of Chicago.  You can read it here, The Pros and Cons of Being Waitlisted.  I want to circle back to the waitlist topic in light of a recent post on “The New York Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 10 years ago
Applying to Colleges

The Pros and Cons of Being Waitlisted

Yesterday, my daughter and thousands of other applicants received their Regular Decision results from The University of Chicago.  She, along with thousands of others, was waitlisted.  It was another record year for UChicago – over 30,000 applicants for approximately 1,500 spots.  This was a 20% increase in applications over 2012, Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 10 years4 years ago
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