Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

There are few things more anti clear-cut than decisions like defer and waitlist. Our most viewed blog of 2020 was What does being deferred mean? I think our 2020 blog from Rick Clark says it best: It does not mean they are questioning your ability, talent, intelligence, or potential match for their school.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Factors to Consider When Committing to a College What to Do if You’re Waitlisted Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways How Do You Commit to a College? What to Do if You’re Waitlisted Getting waitlisted can be nerve-wracking, especially when some colleges admit very few students off their waitlist.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Well also give you tips to help boost your odds, break down important deadlines, and share insights into transfer and waitlist stats. 2020 6,855 553 8.1% Caltech Waitlist Acceptance Rate For the Class of 2027, 213 applicants were offered a spot on the waitlist, 199 accepted it, and not a single one was admitted.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 23, 2025

On this day, youll be notified whether youve been accepted, denied, or waitlisted into your chosen school or schools. For example, Harvard received 40,248 applications in the 2019-2020 admissions cycle, but in 2020-2021, that number soared to a record-high of 57,000 ! Rejection is painful, so take time to process your feelings.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 12, 2025

Here’s the deal: If you’ve been waitlisted, you have some decisions to make… Let’s get started! IMPORTANT PSA ABOUT YOUR PHONE: If you accept or have accepted waitlist positions, be sure that your phone is charged and working and that you can accept voicemails. Dont check obsessively. Thats not healthy.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In this post, were going to break down what you need to do if you recently received a waitlist offer from UT Austin, and what else you need to do to close out your college admissions experience strong. What they didnt have that year, or for many years prior, though, was a waitlist. Same goes for fall 2020 admission.

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AdmissionSight

MARCH 20, 2025

On this day, youll be notified whether youve been accepted, denied, or waitlisted into your chosen school or schools. For example, Harvard received 40,248 applications in the 2019-2020 admissions cycle, but in 2020-2021, that number soared to a record-high of 57,000 ! Rejection is painful, so take time to process your feelings.

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Carnegie Mellon Acceptance Rate Trends Carnegie Mellon Regular Decision Acceptance Rate Carnegie Mellon Early Decision Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon Transfer Acceptance Rate Carnegie Mellon Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is Carnegie Mellons Acceptance Rate?

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AdmissionSight

MARCH 3, 2025

In this blog, we break down NYUs acceptance rates, including yield rate, Early and Regular Decision admit rates, transfer, and waitlist acceptance rates. First, it makes things tougher for waitlisted candidates since fewer admitted students are giving up their spots. Back in 2020 (Class of 2024), the acceptance rate was 21.1%.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Brown Acceptance Rate Trends Brown Regular Decision Acceptance Rate Brown Early Decision Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into Brown Brown Transfer Acceptance Rate Brown Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is Browns Acceptance Rate? 2020 32,390 9% 2019 30,397 8.5% 2020 29,360 7.7% 2020 3,030 22.1%

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In this guide, we’ll unpack the numbers behind Stanford’s acceptance rate, looking at everything from Regular Decision and Early Action stats to transfer and waitlist rates. 2020 43,997 4.8% Stanford Waitlist Acceptance Rate If Stanford waitlists you, there’s hope, but no promises. 2026 56,378 3.7% 2025 55,471 3.9%

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 6, 2025

Top Tier Admissions co-founder and CEO, Mimi Doe , spoke to CNN last year about how pro-Palestinian campus protests could affect enrollment and likely resulted in higher waitlist activity. The undergraduate schools received 5,872 early decision applications, a 2.28% decrease from last year’s applicant pool.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 4, 2023

These numbers are immensely helpful when grappling with what it means to be waitlisted by Cornell — and what to do next. Nearly as many (as we’ll dive into more below) are offered a spot on the waitlist. The Waitlist As we mentioned, Cornell offers nearly 10% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. 213 claimed that spot.

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SSA Online College Prep

JANUARY 26, 2024

Make sure to accept your waitlist spot! What should you do if you’re on a college waitlist? Many schools reported significant increases in the number of applications for the 2020-21 application cycle. For example, applications to Harvard were up 42% from 2019-2020. Submit a deposit to another school. MOST IMPORTANT!

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

A 2020 data assessment by Ivy Coach crunched the numbers to determine which Ivy League universities admit ED applicants deferred to the regular admissions pool. Occasionally, deferred students are offered a spot on the waitlist, a kind of double-limbo. Another tool in the enrollment manager’s kit is the elusive waitlist.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, one way that Duke is not super awesome is how secretive they are around their waitlist. They have basically no resources online about their waitlist and publish almost nothing about the waitlisting process. So, if Duke has waitlisted you, you might feel like you have no idea where to start.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

If you’re here, you were probably waitlisted by Brown and want to know what kind of concrete next steps you can take. We did a little digging into Brown’s waitlist history, and it’s a little murky. In 2022, we have no idea how many students were offered a space on the waitlist. success rate of getting off the waitlist.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

If you are reading this, you probably already know that, as you probably received a waitlist decision. We write a lot of these “what to do if you’re waitlisted” posts this time of year, as we’re trying to provide students with as many resources as possible as they face some of the most stressful decisions they’ve made so far in their life.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So you have been waitlisted at UVA; you might be asking yourself, ok, what do I do now? Getting waitlisted isn’t fun, we’re sorry. UVA actually publishes a sizable list of FAQs about their waitlist. They are very transparent about their waitlist, which is honestly refreshing. Who is on the waitlist right now?

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

During the 2022-23 application cycle, 1,710 students were offered a place on the waitlist. So, if you weren’t part of the initial admitted class (a <6% acceptance rate), and were instead offered a spot on the waitlist, you are facing daunting odds. That isn’t because the waitlist was particularly strong in 2017 or weak in 2018.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We aren’t going to sugarcoat it; being waitlisted is not fun. Boston University is one of those schools that is getting more popular every year, which can lead to a long waitlist. For example, in 2020, their acceptance rate was 22%. What's the first thing you need to do when you are waitlisted? You need a backup.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 8, 2024

They report that they do waitlist qualified students, and they report the number of students let in off the waitlist every year, but they don’t disclose the full context. For first-year students incoming in the Fall of 2020, 108 students were let in off the waitlist. What does this mean for you if you’ve been waitlisted?

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 6, 2024

If you’ve landed on this page, you were likely waitlisted and wondering what your next steps are. The number of students admitted from Middlebury’s waitlist varies year after year; it depends entirely on their yield from accepted students. But we don’t need to sell you on Middlebury.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 12, 2024

Introduction of a waitlist for the first time in many years. Still, I shared my thoughts in a summer 2020 post , when this movement accelerated, if you wish to read them. UT-Austin changed their essay topic in 2020 to invite students to “tell us your story.” A Waitlist Like the essay change, I support this modification.

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SSA Online College Prep

JANUARY 26, 2024

What should I write about to get myself off the waitlist and accepted by the college? What should you do if you’re on a college waitlist? Harvard got 42% more applicants in the 2020-2021 cycle than 2019-2020. And that means every college’s waitlist is INCREDIBLY long this year! Need more help? That is HUGE.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 10, 2023

Here’s the deal: If you’ve been waitlisted, you have some decisions to make… Let’s get started! IMPORTANT PSA ABOUT YOUR PHONE: If you accept or have accepted waitlist positions, be sure that your phone is charged and working and that you can accept voicemails. Don’t check it obsessively. That’s not healthy.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2024

Here’s the deal: If you’ve been waitlisted, you have some decisions to make… Let’s get started! IMPORTANT PSA ABOUT YOUR PHONE: If you accept or have accepted waitlist positions, be sure that your phone is charged and working and that you can accept voicemails. Don’t check obsessively. That’s not healthy.

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BestColleges

MAY 18, 2023

And this graduation season, she designed over 150 hand-painted graduation caps and printed an additional 2,000 graduation toppers, all while maintaining an in-demand two-year waitlist. So she started offering graduation cap toppers in 2020 — digital designs that are printed and taped to a graduate's cap.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 22, 2024

Then, after your interviews, you have to wait to receive an admissions decision, possibly after being placed on various waitlists. This is far from unlikely given that some schools place up to 50 percent of interviewees on their waitlist! One month after your interview, whether you’re placed on the waitlist or haven’t yet heard back.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Example: I applied to medical school during the 2020–2021 application cycle. Though I was placed on a few waitlists, I ultimately did not receive an acceptance offer. If you’re a reapplicant , describe your past application attempt(s) in a sentence or two. With just 200 characters on the table, you likely won’t have room for much else.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

2020 – The top blog of 2020, What does being deferred mean? With waiting on our minds, it makes sense that the top blog of this year was all about the waitlist – The Waitlist. With waiting on our minds, it makes sense that the top blog of this year was all about the waitlist – The Waitlist.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Well dig into trends, compare Early Decision to Regular Decision rates, and explore transfer and waitlist stats. 2020 20,675 10.5% 2020 18,748 9% 2019 18,646 8.8% The Dartmouth acceptance rate for RD has steadily dropped, going from 9% for the Class of 2020 to the 3.8% 2020 1,927 25.6% 2027 28,841 6.2%

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

MIT Acceptance Rate Trends MIT Regular Decision Acceptance Rate MIT Early Action Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into MIT MIT Transfer Acceptance Rate MIT Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is MIT’s Acceptance Rate? 2020 19,020 7.8% 2020 11,253 7.4% 2020 7,767 8.5% 2027 26,914 4.7%

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BestColleges

MARCH 16, 2023

Users must sign up for the waitlist for access. Score: 4/6 (54th percentile) The USA Biology Olympiad (USABO) Semifinal Exam 2020 GPT-4 Score: 87/150 (99th-100th percentile) GPT-3.5 GPT-4 is only available to some developers and researchers , but you can join OpenAI's waitlist.

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The Ivy Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

In line with recent industry trends, Dartmouth has gone test optional – students have not needed to submit standardized testing scores since 2020, for the Class of 2024. This is a significant decrease since 2017, when the acceptance rate for the Class of 2021 was 10.4% and the pool of applicants was 20,034.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Mayo offers scholarships for eligible students and states that the average scholarship received in the 2020 incoming class was $38,000. If you are applying for Fall 2023 entrance, this means submitting a score earned between January 2020 and September 10, 2022. News and World Report.

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DC College Counseling

MAY 1, 2024

The drawn-out timeline and increased reliance on waitlists is impacting everyone. YOU’RE IN LUCK Whether you’re dealing with waitlist uncertainty, financial aid confusion, or protest fear, more students than ever have begun to reconsider their college choices for the upcoming year. STILL NEED A HOME FOR NEXT YEAR?

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