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15 June 2017

Class of 2021 Waitlist Notification Dates and Stats

Posted in Class of 2021, Waitlist

UPDATE #3 (6/15)

waitlist2016For those of you that have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's a list of 2016 waitlist statistics for several popular private and public schools, along with notification dates and latest status where available.  

Our sample of waitlist statistics from 163 private and public institutions paints the following picture:

  • On average, 18 percent of students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted
  • 55 percent of the schools admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the wait list last year
  • 37 percent of the schools admitted 5 percent or less
  • 11 percent admitted no one

There are several factors driving the low rates, including the size of the waitlist (often very large), and how well a school anticipates its admissions yield. 

Click Continue Reading for the list.

 

Class of 2021 Waitlist Notification Dates and 2016 Statistics

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InstitutionWaitlist Offered (2016)Waitlist Accepted (2016)Waitlist Admitted (2016)Admit Rate (2016)Notification DateLink
American 3,116 501 0 0% by 5/15 Link
Amherst 1,269 582 3 1%   Link
Barnard 1,615 1,340 59 4% beginning 2nd week of May at earliest Link
Bates 1,063 334 49 15% typically early May - late June, no later than August 1 Link
Bennington 262 255 182 71%    
Boston College 5,689 3,178 112 4% closed 6/9 Link
Boston University 4,107 2,308 0 0%    
Bowdoin         by 7/31 Link
Brandeis 1,478 502 89 18%    
Brown     0   by 6/30 Link
Bucknell 2,592 892 65 7%    
Cal Poly SLO 1,011   675   by 5/15 Link
Caltech 636 468 8 2%    
Carleton 1,366 533 2 0%    
Carnegie Mellon 3,809 1,942 7 0% by 6/1 (priority waitlist candidates first); no waitlist for Engineering, Architecture/Art/Design,Dietrich, IS, Mellon, SCS, Tepper Link
Case Western 9,293 4,732 333 7%    
Claremont McKenna 1,137 668 5 1%    
Clemson 1,794 659 3 0% mid-May Link
Colby 1,864 650 61 9%   Link
Colgate 1,520 780 32 4% by 8/1 Link
Holy Cross 1,074 459 14 3%   Link
William & Mary 4,115 2,037 154 8% in progress, status mid-June, decision by 8/1 Link
Colorado College 784 213 21 10% most by mid-May, some as late as June Link
Colorado School of Mines 1,427 111 9 8% by 5/21 Link
Connecticut College 1,875 915 61 7%   Link
Cornell 4,571 2,874 61 2%   Link
Dartmouth 2,064 1,194 16 1% mid-May to 7/1 (highly unlikely due to strong yield) Link
Dickinson 810 238 29 12%   Link
Emory (Emory) 4,187 2,150 61 3% notifications through mid-summer Link
Emory (Oxford) 1,557 808 2 0% notifications through mid-summer Link
F&M 2,600   16   end of April to end of May Link
George Washington 4,493 1,616 170 11%    
Georgetown 2,134 1,334 80 6% expect 40 accepted from waitlist, 75 of 100 offered spot on waitlist remain, final answer by 6/30  
Georgia Tech 3,830 2,267 470 21% by 6/1 Link
Grinnell 1,032 395 97 25%    
Hamilton 1,071 475 47 10%    
Harvard         highly unlikely due to strong 2021 yield Link
Harvey Mudd 528 342 12 4%    
Haverford 1,079 412 26 6%    
Johns Hopkins 2,387 1,412 112 8%   Link
Kenyon 2,579 971 15 2% update after 5/1 Link
Lewis & Clark 1,374 404 61 15% late April to mid-May Link
Macalester 430 338 148 44%    
Middlebury 1,316 561 7 1% early May to mid-June Link
Miami - Oxford 3,327 954 16 2% by 8/1 Link
MIT 437 437 26 6% closed 5/10; 14 admitted Link
NYU         925 students admitted from waitlist as of 5/22, including 70 spaces for Spring admission. No space in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, SPS, Nursing or GLSP. Final decisions by 8/1 Link
NC State 2,552 427 247 58% by 6/15 Link
Northwestern 2,752 1,760 9 1% by 6/30  
Oberlin 1,700 878 151 17%    
Occidental 821 416 70 17%    
Pomona 990 608 26 4%   Link
Princeton 1,237 840 18 2% ~50 offered as of 5/12 Link
RPI 4,139 2,420 4 0%    
Rice 2,088 1,497 1 0% by 7/1 Link
Saint Michaels 225 53 14 26% typically mid-June Link
Scripps 675 290 83 29% beginning late May Link
Skidmore 2,011 480 7 1%    
Smith 897 432 1 0%    
SMU 2,010 862 40 5%   Link
Stanford 1,569 1,044 55 5% by 7/1 Link
Trinity College         mid-April to 7/1 Link
Tufts         update in May/early June Link
Tulane 3,881 1,168 0 0% by 6/1 Link
UC Berkeley 3,760 2,445 1,340 55% by 6/1 Link
UC Davis 9,381 3,112 2,571 83% by 6/30 Link
UC Irvine 8,366 4,503 835 19% by 6/30 Link
UCLA         by 6/1 Link
UC Riverside 4,642 2,753 0 0% by 6/30 Link
UCSD         by 6/30 Link
UCSB 5,830 3,252 1,351 42% by 6/30 Link
UCSC 9,983 5,707 4,097 72% by early June Link
UChicago         early summer Link
UIUC 2,846 2,092 350 17% by early June Link
UMass Amherst 6,085 1,787 515 29% beginning mid-May Link
Michigan 11,197 3,970 36 1% by late June Link
UNC - Chapel Hill 3,986 2,024 86 4% by 6/30 Link
Notre Dame 1,796 743 85 11% mid-May to late June Link
Oregon 998 444 388 87% by 6/16 Link
U Richmond 3,209 1,236 60 5% 5/1 - 6/30 Link
U Rochester 2,935 1,468 87 6%    
USD 1,756 626 362 58%   Link
Virginia 4,987 2,871 360 13% closed Link
Vanderbilt     71     Link
Vassar 879 409 21 5% early May to 7/1 Link
Virginia Tech 3,588 2,405 1,697 71% by 7/1 Link
Wake Forest         beginning early May Link
Washington and Lee 1,529 652 48 7% beginning late April Link
Wellesley 1,641 957 23 2% 3rd week in May to 6/30 Link
Wesleyan 2,262 1,134 55 5% by 6/30 Link
Wheaton - MA 487 112 1 1% by 7/1 Link
Whitman 922 371 3 1%    
Williams 2,343 864 24 3%    

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