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28 June 2018

Class of 2022 Waitlist Notification Dates and Stats

Posted in Class of 2022, Waitlist

UPDATE #2 (6/28)

waitlist2018For those of you that have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's a list of 2017 waitlist statistics for several popular private and public schools, along with notification dates and latest status where available.  

Our sample of waitlist statistics from 132 private and public institutions paints the following picture:

  • On average, 13 percent of students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted
  • 63 percent of the schools admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the wait list last year
  • 51 percent of the schools admitted 5 percent or less
  • 16 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 2022 Waitlist Notification Dates and 2017 Statistics

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InstitutionWaitlist Offered (2017)Waitlist Accepted (2017)Waitlist Admitted (2017)Admit Rate (2017)Notification DateLink
American 4,049 609 0 0% by 5/15 Link
Amherst 1,144 590 60 10%   Link
Barnard 1,703 1,222 51 4% early May to early July Link
Bates 1,640 773 7 1% typically early May - late June, no later than August 1 Link
Boston College 6,477 3,791 16 0% by 7/1 Link
Boston University 4,399 2,584 7 0%    
Brandeis 1,826 668 8 1%    
Brown     86   by 6/30 (2724 wait list offers extended) Link
Bucknell 2,883 1,301 55 4% by 8/1 Link
Cal Poly SLO 3,168   15   by 5/15 Link
Caltech 376 43 0 0%    
Carleton 1,315 521 41 8%    
Carnegie Mellon 5,609 2,834 4 0% by 6/1 (priority waitlist candidates first) Link
Case Western 7,178 4,252 586 14%    
Claremont McKenna 723 404 1 0%    
Clemson 2,649 924 876 95% mid-May Link
Colby 2,242 957 32 3% late April - early May Link
Colgate 1,500 745 37 5%    
Holy Cross 1,109 444 0 0%    
William & Mary 4,392 2,355 69 3% by 8/1, as of 6/22 all spaces appear to be full Link
Colorado College 763 212 16 8% most by mid-May, some as late as June Link
Colorado School of Mines 391 82 10 12%    
Columbia           Link
Connecticut College 1,260 543 48 9% After 5/1 Link
Cornell 5,714 3,723 75 2% As of 3/28: 6684 waitlist offers made Link
Dartmouth 2,021 1,345 0 0% early May - end of June Link
Davidson     13   5/1 - 6/30 Link
Dickinson 628 252 35 14%   Link
Duke     92      
Emory (Emory) 4,277 2,992 41 1% As of 5/18, not waitlist activity anticipated, formalized by 6/8 Link
George Washington 5,629 2,082 16 1% 5/14: will not go to waitlist this year Link
Georgetown 2,473 1,571 50 3% As of 5/18, only plan to admit waitlist students for School of Nursing and Health Studies Link
Georgia Tech 4,241 2,822 21 1% by 6/1 Link
Grinnell 1,126 534 12 2%    
Hamilton 1,299 629 33 5%    
Harvard         6/30 (40-100 anticipated waitlist admits) Link
Harvey Mudd 510 361 63 17%    
Haverford 1,152 483 37 8%    
Johns Hopkins 2,741 1,628 3 0% majority after 5/1 Link
Kenyon 1,656 766 38 5% update after 5/1 Link
Lewis & Clark 439 181 24 13% late April to mid-May Link
Macalester 356 192 104 54%    
Middlebury 1,259 540 21 4% early May to mid-June Link
Miami - Oxford 2,860 604 45 7% by 8/1 Link
MIT 527 389 14 4% 5/8: will not go to waitlist this year Link
NYU         by 8/1, as of 6/4 200 students admitted off waitlist Link
NC State 2,479 1,043 7 1% by 6/15 Link
Northwestern 2,905 1,892 65 3%    
Oberlin 1,125 752 124 16%    
Occidental 1,088 482 0 0%    
Pitzer 675 287 24 8%    
Pomona 934 541 16 3%   Link
Princeton 1,168 826 101 12%   Link
RPI 4,803 2,662 22 1%    
Rhodes 1,008 214 51 24%    
Rice 2,080 1,328 17 1% by 7/1 Link
Saint Michaels         typically mid-June Link
Santa Clara 2,397 1,479 39 3%    
Scripps 495 239 1 0% beginning late May Link
Skidmore 2,300 461 60 13%    
Smith 931 471 19 4%    
SMU 1,423 582 69 12%   Link
Stanford 842 656 36 5% by 7/1 Link
Swarthmore     44      
Syracuse 9,023 2,601 1,202 46%    
Tufts 1,504 635 0 0% by early June Link
Tulane 5,596 1,672 0 0% by 6/1 Link
UC Riverside 5,499 3,108 321 10% by 6/30 Link
UCSB 6,650 4,000 960 24% by 6/30 Link
UCSC 10,378 6,038 2,236 37% by 6/30 Link
Georgia 889 531 31 6% final decisions by 5/9 Link
UIUC 2,274 1,694 426 25% by early June Link
UMass Amherst 6,736 1,557 44 3% beginning mid-May Link
Michigan 11,094 4,109 468 11% by late June Link
UNC - Chapel Hill 5,097 2,339 35 1% closed 6/5 Link
Notre Dame 1,508 901 96 11% mid-May Link
Oregon 134 79 73 92% by 6/16 Link
UPenn 3,457 2,327 58 2%    
URichmond 3,383 1,281 56 4% 5/1 - 6/30 Link
U Rochester 3,203 1,750 6 0%    
USD 1,913 896 3 0% After 5/1 Link
Virginia 5,961 3,615 117 3% As of 5/14, waitlist closed for all by Kinesiology program Link
Vassar 985 472 74 16% early May to 7/1 Link
Virginia Tech 3,485 2,404 0 0% by 7/1 Link
Wake Forest           Link
Washington and Lee 1,634 737 32 4% 5/8 update: waitlist closed Link
Wellesley 2,032 1,153 36 3% 3rd week in May to 6/30 Link
Wesleyan 2,267 1,233 108 9% by 6/30 Link
Wheaton - MA 96 17 5 29%    
Whitman 998 185 76 41%    
Williams 1,796 673 0 0%    
WPI 2,187 1,093 102 9%    
Yale         1102 offered place on waitlist Link

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