Waitlists are based on state funding in many ways, and international students don't take up that funding allotment, and in many ways increase the number of subs

Waitlists are based on state funding in many ways, and international students don't take up that funding allotment, and in many ways increase the number of subsidized students. If it's a place like stanford which hasn't increase it admission count much since the 1960s, that is a completely different issue.