22 May 2023
Class of 2027 Waitlist Notification Dates and Fall 2022 Stats
UPDATE #2 (5/22)
For those of you who have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's our initial update of Class of 2027 waitlist notification dates and status where available.
To get a sense for what's happening at the macro level, we took a look at recently released Fall 2022 waitlist statistics from 101 private and public institutions. Our analysis paints the following picture:
- The number of students admitted from the waitlist declined 3 percent year over year from 26,000 for the Class of 2025 to 20,000 for the Class of 2026
- On average, 19 percent of Fall 2022 students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted, unchanged from the previous year
- Students admitted from the waitlist accounted for 8 percent of Fall 2022 enrollments, down slightly from 9 percent for Fall 2021
- 62 percent of the schools sampled admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the waitlist for Fall 2022 (vs. 57 percent for the Fall 2021)
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Class of 2027 Waitlist Notification Dates and 2022 Statistics
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| Institution | Waitlist Offered (2023) | Waitlist Accepted (2023) | Waitlist Admitted (2023) | Admit Rate (2023) | Notification Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American | 9,146 | 2,086 | 88 | 4% | by 5/31 | Link |
| Amherst | 1,419 | 902 | 36 | 4% | ||
| Bates | 2,441 | 1,274 | 0 | 0% | most by 6/30, no later than 8/1 | Link |
| Boston College | Expect active waitlist of 4,500 students | ADMISSIONS | ||||
| Boston University | 9,643 | 5,899 | 3 | 0% | ||
| Bowdoin | begins after 5/1 | Link | ||||
| Brown | 15 | PLME filled, expect 1,000-1,500 students to accept WL invitation, conclude by mid-summer | Link | |||
| Bucknell | 3,463 | 1,544 | 10 | 1% | ||
| Cal Poly Pomona | 10,742 | 4,468 | 381 | 9% | by 6/1 | Link |
| Cal Poly SLO | 10,233 | 345 | by 7/15 | Link | ||
| Caltech | by mid-July | Link | ||||
| Carleton | 1,363 | 591 | 30 | 5% | ||
| Carnegie Mellon | priority waitlist begins 5/9, regular waitlist begins 6/1 | Link | ||||
| Case Western | 11,620 | 6,056 | 436 | 7% | ||
| Chapman | 992 | 567 | 0 | 0% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Claremont McKenna | 850 | 538 | 11 | 2% | ||
| Holy Cross | 2,005 | 989 | 1 | 0% | at desired class size, summer waitlist decisions by 8/1 | Link |
| William & Mary | 4,004 | 2,042 | 4 | 0% | all spaces appear filled, will notify any additional wl admits by 8/1 | Link |
| Colorado College | 823 | 193 | 2 | 1% | ||
| Colorado School of Mines | 765 | 224 | 6 | 3% | by 5/18 | Link |
| Connecticut College | 2,484 | 1,103 | 5 | 0% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Cornell | 7,729 | 5,531 | 260 | 5% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Dartmouth | by 6/30 | Link | ||||
| Davidson | 5/1 - 6/24 | Link | ||||
| Dickinson | 974 | 313 | 18 | 6% | begins mid-April; ~600 offered waitlist spot | Link |
| Emory | anticipate 50-70 offers in May | Link | ||||
| Olin | 59 | 48 | 28 | 58% | begins 5/1 | Link |
| Georgetown | 2,455 | 1,804 | 40 | 2% | by 5/15 | Link |
| Georgia Tech | 7,122 | 4,903 | 41 | 1% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Grinnell | by early July | Link | ||||
| Hamilton | 3,054 | 1,586 | 0 | 0% | begins 5/1 | Link |
| Harvey Mudd | 612 | 419 | 17 | 4% | update 2nd week of May; 603 applicants offered spot | Link |
| Haverford | 1,742 | 1,067 | 7 | 1% | ||
| Indiana | 782 | 402 | 25 | 6% | by 6/15 | Link |
| James Madison | 4,666 | 2,594 | 1,198 | 46% | majority in June, as late as 8/1 | Link |
| Johns Hopkins | 3,443 | 2,358 | 0 | 0% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Kenyon | 2,165 | 1,172 | 23 | 2% | by 6/30 | Link |
| Lafayette | 2,456 | 981 | 17 | 2% | ||
| Lehigh | 5,034 | 2,499 | 93 | 4% | Link | |
| Lewis & Clark | 937 | 354 | 69 | 19% | ||
| Macalester | 1,081 | 591 | 0 | 0% | by 5/31 | Link |
| Middlebury | 2,259 | 2,215 | 12 | 1% | ||
| MIT | update by 5/15 | Link | ||||
| Mt. Holyoke | 1,085 | 460 | 7 | 2% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Muhlenberg | by 6/30 | Link | ||||
| NYU | by 8/1 | Link | ||||
| NC State | 7,439 | 2,689 | 0 | 0% | by 6/15 | Link |
| Occidental | 1,470 | 639 | 11 | 2% | ||
| Ohio State | by 6/1 | Link | ||||
| Pitzer | 775 | 276 | 1 | 0% | ||
| Pomona | 866 | 614 | 13 | 2% | update early-mid May | Link |
| Providence | 3,005 | 1,058 | 3 | 0% | update mid-May | Link |
| Purdue | 13,290 | 5,548 | 19 | 0% | Link | |
| Reed | 5,317 | 1,675 | 76 | 5% | ||
| RPI | 1,728 | 1,129 | 2 | 0% | April-June | Link |
| Saint Michaels | 79 | 27 | 7 | 26% | typically by mid-June | Link |
| Saint Olaf | 883 | 310 | 14 | 5% | Link | |
| Santa Clara | typically thru June | |||||
| Scripps | 722 | 358 | 2 | 1% | begins late May | Link |
| Sewanee | 321 | 148 | 10 | 7% | ||
| Skidmore | 3,023 | 1,344 | 0 | 0% | ||
| Smith | 2,254 | 1,132 | 37 | 3% | ||
| SMU | 1,547 | 738 | 3 | 0% | Link | |
| Stanford | 553 | 457 | 8 | 2% | by 7/1 | Link |
| SUNY Stony Brook | 4,253 | 2,332 | 1,028 | 44% | ||
| Syracuse | 12,638 | 4,073 | 321 | 8% | after 5/1 | Link |
| TCU | 1,733 | 529 | 2 | 0% | typically final two weeks of April | Link |
| Trinity College | late April to 7/31 | Link | ||||
| Tufts | Offered WL to <<10% of applicants | ADMISSIONS | ||||
| Tulane | 6,232 | 2,271 | 3 | 0% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Union College | 582 | 231 | 10 | 4% | beginning early May | Link |
| UC Berkeley | 8,456 | 4,655 | 44 | 1% | between May and July | Link |
| UC Davis | between May and July | Link | ||||
| UC Irvine | between May and July | Link | ||||
| UCLA | 16,979 | 11,169 | 367 | 3% | between May and July | Link |
| UC Merced | between May and July | Link | ||||
| UC Riverside | between May and July | Link | ||||
| UCSD | by 6/30 | Link | ||||
| UCSB | 16,340 | 10,163 | 2,793 | 27% | early May - July | Link |
| UCSC | 18,099 | 11,919 | 1,573 | 13% | between May and July | Link |
| Georgia | 3,022 | 1,543 | 34 | 2% | Another 175 admitted from WL on 5/17 4pm ET | Link |
| UIUC | by late June | Link | ||||
| UMass Amherst | 8,531 | 3,681 | 74 | 2% | beginning after 5/1 | Link |
| University of Miami | 20,206 | 8,545 | 115 | 1% | by 6/15 | Link |
| Michigan | 21,078 | 15,076 | 77 | 1% | typically by mid-June | Link |
| UNC - Chapel Hill | 7,258 | 5,392 | 383 | 7% | by 6/30 | Link |
| Notre Dame | begins between 5/3-5/15; expect 50-150 students ultimately admitted | Link | ||||
| URichmond | 3,903 | 654 | 0 | 0% | by 6/30 | Link |
| USD | 3,072 | 1,360 | 37 | 3% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Virginia | Most offers likely to be made to out-of-state Arts and Sciences studenets | Link | ||||
| Washington | 9,450 | 5,453 | 127 | 2% | Link | |
| Wisconsin | 6,449 | 4,006 | 11 | 0% | by 7/31 | Link |
| Vanderbilt | early May - end of June | Link | ||||
| Vassar | 1,336 | 638 | 32 | 5% | ||
| Virginia Tech | 13,311 | 7,587 | 2,458 | 32% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Washington and Lee | after 5/1 | Link | ||||
| WUSTL | by 6/30 | Link | ||||
| Wellesley | 2,578 | 1,304 | 44 | 3% | before 8/1 | Link |
| Wesleyan | 2,754 | 1,557 | 81 | 5% | by 6/30 | Link |
| Wheaton - IL | by 8/1; updates at end of May, June & July | Link | ||||
| Williams | 2,241 | 860 | 0 | 0% | begins in May, typically 500-650 students on WL | Link |
| WPI | 3,109 | 1,347 | 574 | 43% | ||
| Yale | 1,000 | 780 | 9 | 1% | target class size reached | Link |
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