Getting Into College Just Got Easier, If Your Kid Is Wait-Listed
- Colleges open waiting lists with finances roiled by pandemic
- ‘I’ve never seen anything like this,’ says a college counselor
A student walks across The Cut on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Photographer: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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The notoriously maddening college admissions race just got a little easier for one group of students -- those on waiting lists.
Once dubbed the place where students’ dreams go to die, waitlists are opening up as schools contend with the economic fallout of the coronavirus.