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U.S. News and World Report recently reported that although universities expect to admit more students from their wait lists this year, more students currently on the wait list would have been admitted in previous years. Wait-listed students do have a few rights however, and the colleges should:

• Provide the wait-listed student with information such as the number of other students wait-listed and what happened to wait-listed students in previous years.
• Clear their wait list by August 1.
• Not require a financial deposit to remain on the wait list.

Further reading: U.S. News and World Report