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Waitlisted? What To Do Next

Berkeley² Academy

As we move through the Spring semester, more and more college admissions decisions will be available to prospective students. However, some students may find themselves placed on a school’s waitlist. A waitlist decision puts prospective students in limbo. Most responses will be a final decision of acceptance or rejection.

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What To Do If You’ve Waitlisted By MIT 2024

The Koppelman Group

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. Unfortunately, zero students were accepted off the waitlist.

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

The Koppelman Group

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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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. This translates to their waitlist too. In 2022, 3,443 students were offered a spot on the waitlist, and 2,358 students accepted their spot on the waitlist, and JHU admitted none of them.

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

The Koppelman Group

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. While we don’t know how many students were waiting on the waitlist, we do know that not a single student was accepted off the waitlist that year.

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Value (Capture) in College Admissions

Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

Every year we hear stories from students who say they were discouraged from applying to schools ranked below number X; or decided only to apply to schools within the Top 10 in a particular field; or were pressured to ultimately choose the highest ranked school from which they received on offer of admission. Denominator. Still Numerator.

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Is it Better to be Waitlisted or Deferred?

Solomon Admissions

Imagine this: You’ve spent months perfectly crafting your college applications and are anxiously waiting for your first set of admissions decisions to arrive. 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?