In over 10 years as a college counselor, I’ve seen countless shifts in college admissions. But there’s one trend that absolutely exploded this year: the waitlist. Colleges are no longer using the waitlist sparingly. Instead, the waitlist has become an active extension of the admissions cycle and, for the colleges, a strategic enrollment management tool. Being waitlisted is the college admissions equivalent of an emotionally unavailable situation-ship: they won't commit to you