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  "textContent": "Getting a \"maybe\" from a college may now be the unkindest cut of all. The Wall Street Journal reports that as students obsess over wait-list emails this month, data show their odds are often worse than they were in the regular admissions pool. University of California, Berkeley, last year placed...",
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