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Waitlisted? What To Do Next

Berkeley² Academy

Most responses will be a final decision of acceptance or rejection. However, some students may find themselves placed on a school’s waitlist. In this blog, we’ll go through what being waitlisted means, what to do about it, and how to strategically move forward with other college decisions.

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What To Do If You’ve Waitlisted By MIT 2024

The Koppelman Group

MIT is also famous for being one of the hardest-to-get-into schools in the country, with a 4% acceptance rate. If you’re here, more than likely, you’ve been waitlisted by MIT, and because you’re an MIT-minded student, you probably want to know every single step and action item you can do to increase your chances of getting off the waitlist.

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What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by UNC 2024

The Koppelman Group

Last year, the in-state acceptance rate was about 42%, while the out-of-state rate was only about 10%. Many schools maintain a waitlist, and UNC is one of them. Every year, schools accept more applicants than they need. They do this because they know that not every student they accept will choose to attend their school.

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What to Do if You’ve Been Waitlisted by Johns Hopkins 2024

The Koppelman Group

If you’re here, you’re probably a pretty STEM-minded student, and you want to know exactly what you can do to get off the JHU waitlist. With an acceptance rate of 3% for their 2023 freshman class, Johns Hopkins is pretty exclusive. This translates to their waitlist too. Have you been waitlisted by your dream college?

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What to Do if You’ve Been Waitlisted by Middlebury 2024

The Koppelman Group

Picturesque, academically robust, and competitive in athletics but not dominated by them, Middlebury attracts high-achieving students and has (as of last year’s data) an acceptance rate of just 13%. If you’ve landed on this page, you were likely waitlisted and wondering what your next steps are.

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What to Do if You’ve Been Waitlisted by Swarthmore 2024

The Koppelman Group

acceptance rate. It’s a less-than-simple math equation, trying to guess what the yield rate will be — and any students accepted off of the waitlist are a result of that yield guess being off. However, Swarthmore has actively used the waitlist in the past. 1019 students were eventually admitted, for a 6.9%

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Is it Better to be Waitlisted or Deferred?

Solomon Admissions

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?