People say this every year. It's not really true. The movement seems significant when you are not involved, adequate when you get the call, and otherwise practically nonexistent.
Honestly, as someone watching with interest from the sidelines for the third year in a row, this year is totally following the pattern of past years. There was a big wave the first two weeks of May. It did slow down last week, entirely as predicted, and as it does every year after the initial surge. It will continue, at a progressively slower pace, right into and through schools' CTE deadlines and up until orientation.
This happens EVERY YEAR. This year is no different. Just go back and look at all the happy people, on this thread as well as on the school specific threads, who reported success from the end of April through this past week. Multiply that by whatever multiplier you think is appropriate to arrive at the true number of WL calls so far. And, it's not over yet, although the initial surge caused by the 4/30 deadline to reduce to one A has now passed.
What did not happen was the huge surge of WL movement caused by schools being conservative with initial As due to a fear of acceptance hoarding facilitated by virtual interviews that some people were speculating might happen. Otherwise, every year people say that movement feels like it is less than prior years. If this were actually true, there would be no movement at all after all these years of less and less movement every year.
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Hang in there. At this point, I'd give it another week and then start preparing for a reapplication if you have not been taking the very prudent advice of the most conservative adcoms among us (I'm looking directly at you
@gonnif 🙂) and been doing so from the moment you hit the "submit" button last May.
