And I said to her, hmm, let's think about like what would happen if you were wait-listed everywhere?

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Everybody knows one kid who got wait-listed everywhere, or one kid who just, who applied to the wrong set of schools.

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Looking for more, he sent Brooklyn correspondence indicating that he had been wait-listed at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

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Many are "It" shoes, those darlings heralded in the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and thus wait-listed even before they ship to stores.

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My second school, I got wait-listed, and my third school, I got put into - at the University of Texas, it's called the coordinated application program where you go to a satellite school for a year, and then you transfer in.

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German media report that 38 patients with liver problems were falsely listed as dialysis cases in order to shorten their wait for a transplant.

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You wait to see if any of your Facebook friends mentions a job opening or if you see jobs listed through Twitter.

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