How are people still getting acceptances?

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medicalkid123

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Since it is past the May 15th deadline, I was wondering how people were still getting acceptances off of the waitlists. Obviously an accepted student needs to withdraw from a school to free up a spot, so where is he going if he withdraws?

Did he happen to get off a waitlist because someone withdrew? (because he got off a waitlist... and so on)

So pretty much the acceptances going out now are just aftermath from all the May 15th chaos? I'm confused

Thanks!
 
Since it is past the May 15th deadline, I was wondering how people were still getting acceptances off of the waitlists. Obviously an accepted student needs to withdraw from a school to free up a spot, so where is he going if he withdraws?

Did he happen to get off a waitlist because someone withdrew? (because he got off a waitlist... and so on)

So pretty much the acceptances going out now are just aftermath from all the May 15th chaos? I'm confused

Thanks!

lots of reasons... People are deferring for all kinds of reasons, people got off waitlists before the 15th and had 2 weeks to decide, etc
 
People have the one acceptance after may 15th but stay on a waitlist or two (or more). If accepted to one of these waitlist schools, that frees up a seat at original school. And so on....huge domino effect, traffic jam, whatever analogy you like. I suppose students deferring is also a case.
 
One student at Johns Hopkins defers to do research for a year and the dominoes fall.
 
Logistics also affects things. Many students ask for time to see their financial aide. This request is usually granted, meaning that someone who found out on May 17th that they got off a waitlist may still be waiting for financial aide, so say they get their aide, pick a school on June 3rd, then someone else gets off a waitlist and does the same thing... Picking new students to take off the waitlist takes time too, think weekly meetings at best... This can stretch out all the way to the beginning of school. Generally, though, the later in the summer the less likely they are to give you any time to think about it. I would imagine that filling a spot the day before orientation involves finding someone willing to immediately commit to moving across the country tomorrow!
 
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