08-11-2020, 03:18 PM
20% of Harvard's incoming freshman class will not be incoming this fall. Those empty spots will not be backfilled from the waitlist.
Stanford probably doesn't have any ability to deny a leave of absence request, so it will be what it will be. Stanford can backfill from their waitlist if there's a plan to accommodate a population bulge throughout the next four to six years. They've been trying to expand the undergraduate population anyway...who knows what the GUP allows in four to six years anyway. (I don't know how often that GUP is renegotiated or where Stanford stands right now in terms of allowable undergrad population size on campus.)
Stanford probably doesn't have any ability to deny a leave of absence request, so it will be what it will be. Stanford can backfill from their waitlist if there's a plan to accommodate a population bulge throughout the next four to six years. They've been trying to expand the undergraduate population anyway...who knows what the GUP allows in four to six years anyway. (I don't know how often that GUP is renegotiated or where Stanford stands right now in terms of allowable undergrad population size on campus.)