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Edit: I was waitlisted but now admitted into the program.......yet the program is still accepting applications. What was the point of the waitlist?

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Um, can you provide some more context? I'm assuming you're talking about rolling admits, right?

 

I'll take a stab at answering your question for now with my own anecdote on why this may be the case. Before I was accepted to UIUC, I considered applying to Brandeis's terminal MA program in late January. The review apps until late March/April, so I thought I could take my sweet time. 

 

I kid you not - less than a week after the deadline, my POI was already making decisions. He had already drawn a list of prospectives up and said he would review my application to see if he wanted to add mine to it. 

 

Also, a lot of profs assume second-round, post-deadline applicants are using them as a backup. I suspect my Alabama POI believes this to be the case [turned in my app a a month late]; she's wrong, but the damage is done. Don't screw around with deadlines.

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Edit: I was waitlisted but now admitted into the program.......yet the program is still accepting applications. What was the point of the waitlist?

At least in biomedicine/biosciences, programs have X number of spots to fill and X amount of funding for said spots. They want to fill those up with their top applicants first. However, top applicants typically have a lot of choice in where to go to grad school and have equally good offers from other schools. This is why biosciences send out programs in waves. Maybe most years they need to make 50 offers to fill 20 spots. Maybe some years they need to make 40...or 60. But they can't make them all at once because they're not sure how many of the initial round of invites (say, 30 top candidates) are going to accept.

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