The Koppelman Group

MARCH 10, 2024

It’s a highly-competitive school with an acceptance rate around 11%. And while students do get waitlisted, it’s really tough to get off the Carnegie Mellon waitlist. All waitlists are hard to get off. News & World Report , Carnegie Mellon is one of the top 10 hardest schools in America to get off the waitlist.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Last year, in the 2022-2023 application cycle, the accepted rate was just 15%. In fact, we’re guessing you recently received a waitlist decision from Boston College and are trying to decide what to do next. First, though, let’s get the ‘lay of the land’ for the BC waitlist. Just 13 were eventually admitted —.1%

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 4, 2024

Being waitlisted can be a pretty stressful process, especially if it’s for your dream school. In this article, we’ve put together some tips and information that will help you have the best chance of turning your waitlist notice into an acceptance letter. That’s why we’re here to help! See, it even says “do not publish.”

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Over the past several years, Bowdoin’s acceptance rate has become more exclusive, dropping from 15% in 2013 to a wild 8% in their latest freshman class for 2023. Don’t panic though, their acceptance rate has gone down because their number of applicants has grown over the last 11 years. The first step truly is that easy!

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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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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

. “To save room for more first-generation college students and students who do not feel comfortable making a binding commitment so early, we reduced our Early Decision offers of admission this year and increased Early Action and Regular Decision offers.” Nearly 5% identified as trans or non-binary.

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Next up in our series highlighting early round acceptance rates at top colleges is Vanderbilt University , located just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. For the Class of 2027, RD and overall acceptance rates were both the lowest in university history at 4.2% of early decision I and II applicants were admitted.

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Ivy College Essay

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Early Action or Early Decision: Ivy College Admissions. Choosing Early Action over Early Decision can be confusing. Early Action and Early Decision are both college application STRATEGIES. Early Action versus Early Decision: The Definitions. I think yes.

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Brown will make 1,730 Regular Decision offers of admission to the incoming Class of 2027 in addition to the 879 Early Decision admission offers made in December. The overall acceptance rate for the 2022-2023 admissions cycle was 5%, the Regular Decision acceptance rate was 3.8%, and the Early Decision acceptance rate was 13%.

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Ivy College Essay

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What to Do if You Are Waitlisted – Ivy League College Admissions Letter of Continued Interest: The College Waitlist What to do if you are waitlisted? College waitlists can be a frustrating experience for students. However, being waitlisted is not necessarily the end of the road. The adcom is BUSY.

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Northwestern previously admitted about half of its incoming Class of 2027 through Early Decision, and the university’s overall admit rate will stay roughly 7%. This means that Northwestern’s Early Decisions acceptance rate now hovers around 20%. Northwestern’s Fall 2022 ED applicant pool grew by 3.5%

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 2, 2023

In the 2022 application cycle, they received more than 50,500 applications and admitted just 2,500 students for an overall acceptance rate of just 5% ( a record low , continuing more than a decade-long decline in acceptance rate). Historically, the waitlist has been a key part of Brown’s admissions strategy. Very few will.

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Solomon Admissions

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Instead of a cheery acceptance letter or even a denial, however, you find that you’ve been deferred (or waitlisted). Is being deferred better or worse than being waitlisted? What should you do in response to a deferral or a waitlist decision? Deferred vs. Waitlisted What do these decisions mean?

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Princeton College Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While being deferred or waitlisted can be disappointing and in many respects can feel like a rejection, it is important to understand what being deferred or waitlisted means. With deferrals and waitlists you are still very much in the game but what you do from that point forward can make a significant difference.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 7, 2023

Over the past 20 years , the overall acceptance rate has decreased from 18% to a little over 6%. Most recently, 46% of the class was filled in the early decision cycle and the acceptance rate for that cohort was 19% , an all-time low for the university. This rise in exclusivity has impacted the waitlist process, too.

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StandOut College Prep

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As shared in the post about early admissions, if you apply to college during Early Action and Early Decision cycles , you will face a lot of competition. When more students apply early, you’re also likely to be deferred from at least one college. Have you been deferred or waitlisted from college?

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Berkeley² Academy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Depending on the decision you receive, there are several steps you can take , and understanding how to respond to these different outcomes is crucial. If you are accepted: 1. Assess your options On average, students apply to 10-15 schools. Take into consideration all factors (academic, extracurricular, financial, etc.)

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Ivy Central

JUNE 13, 2023

Admissions Acceptance Rate Williams College received 10,315 applications in the regular decision round and admitted 858 students. Applicants who accept their offers of admission will join the 255 incoming students admitted through the early decision program in December to form the Class of 2027.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 18, 2024

Those of you who have heard good news from your Early Decision and Early Action schools can start looking forward to your freshman year of college. SENIORS: FINISH THE YEAR STRONG Keep your grades up: Especially for students who have been admitted in the Early Decision round, it’s easy to assume you can take the spring off.

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BestColleges

APRIL 23, 2024

Yield is the percentage of accepted students who choose to enroll. Colleges aim to boost their yield through several strategies, including early admissions policies. That, of course, dictates the acceptance rate. But how many accepted students actually decide to attend? But just how does the waitlist affect yield?

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Spark Admissions

MAY 30, 2023

Given that many colleges are not increasing their class sizes, or are doing so in a very limited capacity, this explosion in applications inevitably means that acceptance rates will drop, sometimes precipitously. For these reasons, selective colleges and Ivy League schools have been making more active use of their waitlists in recent years.

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DC College Counseling

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Over the next few weeks, many schools will release their early application decisions - especially those with binding early decision plans (some non-binding early action decisions will not come in until January or even February). Read on for some helpful tips, broken down by decision! Be gracious.

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

Many of these issues come down to Early Decision and Action processes that I discussed in the previous video. Most early applicants are deferred until the regular admissions deadline when their application is considered among all other applicants. Another tool in the enrollment manager’s kit is the elusive waitlist.

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CTK College Coach

MARCH 17, 2022

You may already have some acceptances in hand from rolling, early action, or early decision applications, or you may be waiting for your very first acceptance as colleges release their decisions for the regular round. You Must Release Other Offers After You Accept at a School. Waitlisted– Now What?

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College Essay Guy

APRIL 5, 2024

We’ll explain what deferred means, why colleges defer applicants, the difference between deferred vs waitlisted, and how you can improve your chances of still gaining admission. Deferred vs waitlisted What do I do if I’m deferred? What does waitlisted mean, and how is it different from deferred? Let’s begin. There’s more.

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Elite Open School

DECEMBER 21, 2020

After all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into our college applications, we can’t help but dream of that special moment when we receive our coveted letters of acceptance. there are more potential outcomes to our applications than either outright acceptances or rejections. What does it mean to be deferred or waitlisted to college?

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Schools typically accept standardized test scores from administrations taken up to a month prior their application deadline. For instance, a school with a November 1 early application deadline will accept scores from tests taken through October. They also vary with regard to early action, early decision, and regular decision.

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Spark Admissions

JULY 7, 2022

For most of these schools, their record-low acceptance rates in the 2021-2022 application cycle followed multiple years of increasing selectivity, suggesting these trends will likely be lasting. With nearly 85,000 applications this year, Michigan’s acceptance rate fell to less than 20% for the first time ever.

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

While approximately 78%, of admission offers at Emory are made Regular Decision and roughly 22% of offers are extended to Early Decision applicants, that doesn’t mean an applicant’s statistical odds of getting into Emory Regular Decision are better than getting in Early Decision.

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Whether you have been deferred in the early action round or are just waiting for your regular decision outcomes, it is completely normal to not hear from many schools until March or even the first week of April. Early Admissions Trends for the Class of 2024: How are colleges handling the massive increase in applications?

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Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

Most colleges are not very transparent about the percentage of students they accept with or without scores. Duke was transparent in their Early Decision release this year. So, how many students a college accepts test-optional is not the only statistic colleges don’t necessarily publish. Is it worth it to submit scores?

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DC College Counseling

MARCH 5, 2024

WAKE FOREST CONGRATULATES WAITLISTED APPLICANTS BY MISTAKE Word on the street is that a number of Wake Forest applicants who were waitlisted through the early decision rounds received a email last week that was actually meant for accepted students. Can you even imagine?!

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Try to decide whether and where you will apply Early Decision (ED) or Early Action (EA). December Receive ED and EA decisions from colleges. Accept ED college and submit a deposit, if necessary. Withdraw applications from other colleges if you accept an offer from your ED or EA school. Do summer activities.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Continue reading to discover the Boston University acceptance rate, the Boston University average GPA, and how your child can boost their BU admissions odds. With so many high-achieving students applying to BU, you understand why your child is eager to learn how to get into Boston University.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 9, 2023

Have you, perhaps, applied only to “reach” schools with very low acceptance rates? Do you find yourself wishing that you had applied to one of your schools Early Decision II , rather than in the regular round? Keep in mind, too, that college acceptances are conditional. PREPARE NOW IN CASE YOU ARE WAITLISTED.

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Humbach Education Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When a student's college application is deferred into the regular decision pool, it means that their application was not accepted or rejected during the early decision or early action application process, but has been moved to the regular decision pool of applicants.

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Ivy College Essay

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Have you been deferred from Early Decision? Up until Dec 15th at 7pm EST, everyone who applied Early Decision and submitted their college applications in time for the Nov 1 deadline has been in a holding pattern. Check out my other article too: What Does It Mean to Get Waitlisted: [link].

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