Re Dartmouth's plea for knowledge about progress on the waitlist for NAQT ICT invitations: In past years NAQT has put the status of invitations and acceptances on our website, updating that promptly as anything changes. I assume we'll be doing that again, though I am not the webmaster and cannot promise myself. So far, the list of invitees is there, but no indication as to who has accepted or not. What I can promise is to report myself, until that would be made redundant by having the information on the website. To this moment: Division I has had 15 acceptances. (Carleton, Oxford-tentatively, Princeton, Texas A&M, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan A and B, Oklahoma, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Wichita State, Wisconsin, and Yale. That's counting as acceptances some earlier messages from SCT hosts telling us which division they wished to receive a bid in.) Division I has had nobody decline as yet. (From three years of doing this, I recognize that as the normal pattern; the earliest responses are almost always all acceptances.) Duke, 3rd on the waitlist, has also confirmed they will come if invited. Division II has had 10 acceptances. (Brandeis, Carleton, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri-Rolla, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, and Yale.) Division II has had nobody decline as yet. Duke and Dartmouth A, 4th and 5th on the waitlist, have indicated they will come if invited. Dartmouth: past history is no guarantee of anything, but it would suggest that 5th on the waitlist is *likely* eventually to be invited. I do not believe Div. I has ever failed to go so far (and farther) in past years, and Div. II has only failed to go so far once--last year. What has been difficult for all concerned has been when some of those invitations have come to late to be meaningful -- too late to be accepted by teams needing to find affordable flights. Sometimes these have been caused by teams taking too long to decide; other times by late withdrawals from teams that initially accepted. We are making a concerted effort this year to speed up the process and get commitments early, out of fairness to those waitlisted. Eric H., NAQT ICT invitations coordinator
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