April 14, 2006
Welcome to Admissions Limbo
Unsure how many accepted students will attend, some colleges plan to rely more heavily on their waiting lists this year
By late March, Lee A. Coffin thought the difficult decisions were over. After weeks of long meetings, Mr. Coffin, dean of undergraduate admissions at Tufts University, and his admissions committee had finally selected which 4,073 of the 15,280 applicants would receive acceptance letters.
But then he ran the "yield model," a complicated equation that uses
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