July 2, 2004
In the Admissions Game, Students Change the Rules
As applicants use waiting lists to their advantage, colleges find it hard to predict who will enrollHigh-school seniors waiting for acceptance letters from colleges may think that admissions officials have all the power in the world. Yet those gatekeepers have never felt less in control of the final outcome of the admissions process than they do now.
As a growing number of students apply to college each year, and more of them submit applications to multiple institutions,
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