College enrollment is up, which means Bad News for Wait-Listed Students:
A number of the nation’s most-selective universities, including Princeton, Yale and Johns Hopkins, aren’t admitting any students at all off their wait lists this spring. And many others are taking only a handful.
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At Princeton and Johns Hopkins, the lack of wait-list admissions is a sharp contrast to last year, when Princeton admitted 99 wait-listed applicants and Hopkins took about 150. Yale took eight last year.Duke University admitted just 22 students from its list, compared with 86 last year. The University of Chicago says it admitted only 34 students from the wait list, compared with 150 last year. The University of Pennsylvania took 10 students this year, compared with about 30 last year.