Students are happy to know that all the tears they cried and all the sleep they lost was not in vain... or was it? Students that were wait-listed to schools like Harvard, Princeton and UPenn will be given a second chance as a greater number of waitlisters are being accepted. In an article for The New York Times, everyone is surprised to see that there is an influx of students being taken off waitlists ending their misery with acceptance letters (or phone calls).

Harvard has plans of taking in 150-175 applicants from the waitlist as UPenn and Princeton are both shooting for 90 applicants. As I read the article in The NY Times, I asked myself why are Ivy League schools suddenly so interested in taking so many students off the waitlist? And what does this mean for all the other competitive colleges? Well as you probably guessed it, other schools will be taking in waitlisters as slots are opening up in some of the country’s best schools.

I used to thank my lucky stars that I was accepted into the school I wanted to go to but what about those students who abandoned their dreams of going to their dream school and sent a deposit to their fall-back school? It's now late May and most students already know where they will be going in the fall. Applicants should have been notified of this change weeks ago! Most schools have a deadline of May 1 to accept their offer, and now these students taken off the waitlists have to make a choice between the school that holds their heart or the school that holds their deposit.

Sure, it makes sense for these schools to be more selective about their admissions and set a small quota of the students they will accept but now they are stuck with a significant number of freshmen that were waitlisted. The Ivy Leagues really dropped the ball on this one!