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Valuable insights from Lynn O’Shaughnessy
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Waitlisted

The Odds of Getting Off a Wait List

This weekend I heard from old friends who wanted to share with me stories of brilliant students who got shut out of elite universities. At a party on Friday night, a former colleague of my husband’s mentioned that he was stunned that his son’s friend didn’t get into Stanford University. The boy is a stellar student and he only missed...