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Any advice on WL candidates or when Owen is planning on doing thier initial wave of pulls from the waitlist? Needing to make a decision soon on schools.

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Any advice on WL candidates or when Owen is planning on doing thier initial wave of pulls from the waitlist? Needing to make a decision soon on schools.

Hello, a lil bit of realistic advice for wl - waitlisted pulls are priortaised depending on how many candidates have paid deposits for r2 by deadline. I am not sure what deadline for r2 deposits is. But may 1st week should be good for looking at first pulls. Also I would recommend reaching out to adcoms directly and say explicit that hey owen is my priority but I need decision ro be made for this other school by xyz deadline (please put may 1st week if you don't have deadlines from other school) and take it from there.
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Thank you for this information Kshitija. Out of curiosity, where did you get this great advice from? Have you been through something similar or work with admissions in some way?

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> Hello, a lil bit of realistic advice for wl - waitlisted pulls are priortaised depending on how many candidates have paid deposits for r2 by deadline. I am not sure what deadline for r2 deposits is. But may 1st week should be good for looking at first pulls. Also I would recommend reaching out to adcoms directly and say explicit that hey owen is my priority but I need decision ro be made for this other school by xyz deadline (please put may 1st week if you don't have deadlines from other school)
Thank you for this information Kshitija. Out of curiosity, where did you get this great advice from? Have you been through something similar or work with admissions in some way?

Haha a magician should not reveal her secrets. Let's just say I tried n tested all I could. Networked all I could regardless of results

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Haha a magician should not reveal her secrets. Let’s just say I tried n tested all I could. Networked all I could regardless of results

hahaha does this magician know how many seats will be pulled from the waitlist this year? lol

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> Haha a magician should not reveal her secrets. Let’s just say I tried n tested all I could. Networked all I could regardless of results

hahaha does this magician know how many seats will be pulled from the waitlist this year? lol

That beyond me sorry - but I for a fact know someone from this group who isn't gonna accept - so I would say consider 2/3

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That beyond me sorry - but I for a fact know someone from this group who isn’t gonna accept - so I would say consider 2/3

thanks for that info! only 2/3 getting pulled from the waitlist seems low but i dont know much. Im hoping there are a few more people that get pulled from the waitlist lol fingers crossed.
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> That beyond me sorry - but I for a fact know someone from this group who isn’t gonna accept - so I would say consider 2/3
thanks for that info! only 2/3 getting pulled from the waitlist seems low but i dont know much. Im hoping there are a few more people that get pulled from the waitlist lol fingers crossed.
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Might be I am just saying my relative answers as I don't really have data. Take it w grain of salt

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Might be I am just saying my relative answers as I don’t really have data. Take it w grain of salt

i appreciate it regardless, i assume youre planning on going to Owen?

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> Might be I am just saying my relative answers as I don’t really have data. Take it w grain of salt
i appreciate it regardless, i assume youre planning on going to Owen?

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Wbu?

right now i have a few offers with scholarships. just waiting on Ross and Mccombs to release their R3 decisions but i had Own as my #1.

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Wbu?

hopefully i see you there lol

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> Wbu?
right now i have a few offers with scholarships. just waiting on Ross and Mccombs to release their R3 decisions but i had Own as my #1.

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