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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the 2022-2023 application cycle , Notre Dame received more than 28,354 applications and accepted about 3,400 students leading to an acceptance rate of 12%. They aim for an enrolled class of about 2,000, and the yield — or the percentage of accepted students who choose to enroll — is about 60%.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the 2021-2022 admissions cycle, they admitted 2,730 out of 31,443 applicants, or 8.7%. The following year, for the 2022-2023 admissions cycle, the number of applications continued on an upwards trajectory to 32,373 — and the acceptance rate with 7.7%. Nearly 50% of students who are offered a spot at Rice choose to enroll.

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Inside Emory Admission

MAY 8, 2023

We would like to provide a comprehensive update on the waitlist activity for Emory College at Emory University. As of May 8, we are pleased to report that the enrolling class at Emory College has met our expected enrollment target and slightly exceeded it.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the 2021-2022 application cycle , 14,707 applicants vied for those 400ish spots. 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.

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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. For some wild reason, that decision made sense to them.

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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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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the 2022-2023 application cycle , Pomona received 12,118 applications and admitted on 817. Pomona aims for 415 applicants per class, so they plan for a 50% yield rate. If that estimate is off and there are spots left open after accepted applicants have made their final pick of school, Pomona fills them off of the waitlist.

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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.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

If you’ve ended up on this post, you’ve most likely been on the receiving end of a waitlist offer from NYU — or you’re nervous you might get one and want to have a plan of action in advance in case you do. In the 2021-2022 application cycle, NYU had a 12.45% acceptance rate. But you probably already know all of this.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

But you are obviously aware of how competitive Penn is because you’re here for something else – waitlist info. Before we talk about how to get off the waitlist, let’s dive into their recent data re: waitlist. Out of those 2,508 students, 147 were admitted off the waitlist. You gotta tell them that you wanna be there!

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The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 29, 2024

If you’re here, you were probably waitlisted by Barnard, and you wanna see what you can do to get off the waitlist and into Greta Gerwig’s alma mater. In 2023, 2524 students were offered a spot on the waitlist, and 1597 accepted a spot on the waitlist. Out of those 1597, 66 students were eventually admitted.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 11, 2024

Anyways, you’re here because you got waitlisted by Colorado College (CC for short), and you want to know your odds of getting off the waitlist and how to get off the waitlist. This is important context for the waitlist because the waitlist is designed to fill spots when not enough accepted students enroll to fill out a class.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The waitlist, though, has shown the opposite trend. Prior to COVID, it was normal for Williams to accept a few dozen students off of the waitlist each year. In the 2021-2022 application cycle, Williams waitlisted 2,241 students (or 14.6% of all applicants). If you’re already feeling overwhelmed, send us an email.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Like almost everywhere else, it’s gotten more competitive as the years have gone by, with last year’s common data set reporting 3,444 admitted students from an applicant pool of 34,002 (an acceptance rate of 10.1%). If you’re here, you likely landed on the waitlist and need to know what to do next.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2024

? Hello, beautiful seniors and other applicants. 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.

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Inside Emory Admission

JUNE 30, 2023

We want to express our gratitude for the time and effort you put into your application. Please know that the decision to limit our yearly enrollment is always a difficult one, as we received many outstanding applications from exceptional individuals like yourself.

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Anna Ivey Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2023

A few thoughts for current law school applicants during this excruciating time of year for you: 1. Law schools keep preposterously deep waitlists. Over the next few months, you can decide which waitlist schools you actually want to fight for during the summer, and which ones you want to let go. Manage your expectations.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

But they also get a landslide of applications. Beyond that, though, nearly 25% of applicants were neither let in nor rejected but offered a spot on the waitlist. Of those 21,078 waitlisted students, 15,076 — or 72% — accepted their spot on the waitlist. That’s an acceptance rate of 18%.

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 19, 2023

Louis will release admission decisions for Regular Decision applicants in the late afternoon on March 23, 2023. Louis university received over 32,000 applications from “wonderful young people around the globe” this admissions cycle. WashU received 33,214 applications last year for its Class of 2026.

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Anna Ivey Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2023

There’s so much advice floating around about waitlists and letters of continued interest. There’s a reason that colleges often call admissions officers “enrollment managers”: they’re managing not just the admitting part, but also the enrolling part.

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Solomon Admissions

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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?

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Ivy College Essay

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What Does it Mean If You Get Waitlisted? Decision day comes and when you see that email from your dream school, you discover that you have been waitlisted. Getting on the waitlist is an accomplishment in itself. Waitlisted and want help developing a strategic plan of action now, moving forward? Depressing.

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Ivy College Essay

MAY 5, 2023

What Are My Chances of Getting Off An Ivy League Waitlist like Harvard? With an acceptance rate of less than 10%, it’s no surprise that many qualified candidates are placed on a waitlist rather than receiving a definitive acceptance or rejection. First, what is a waitlist? You are in limbo, waiting for a decision.

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

One of the worst parts about college admissions is that tens of thousands of applicants will neither be admitted nor denied outright. Most early applicants are deferred until the regular admissions deadline when their application is considered among all other applicants. But hey, better than an outright rejection, right?

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StandOut College Prep

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And when colleges have more applications to read in the regular decision round, this will lead to more students being waitlisted. Have you been deferred or waitlisted from college? But most importantly, you may even be confused about what deferral vs. waitlisted means. Read on to find out! Key Takeaways. What is Deferral?

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This has ranged from explorations of waitlists to examinations of deadlines to explications of supply and demand and institutional missions. Recently, I have also come to appreciate the massive disconnect between how students approach and complete the application and how it is actually read in admission offices. It’s definitely form-y.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 10, 2023

? Hello, beautiful seniors and other applicants. 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.

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Enrollment Catalyst

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

52 enrollment and marketing geeks from 29 schools in 15 states and 2 provinces will gather in Orlando for the first “Geeks on the Road” Workshop. In this phase, the parent will decide to apply, enroll, and onboard. I still find it surprising that schools fail to clearly communicate the application process.

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BestColleges

APRIL 23, 2024

Yield is the percentage of accepted students who choose to enroll. Around this time of year, high school seniors conduct post-mortems on their college applications, trying to make sense of the increasingly unpredictable and seemingly capricious nature of undergraduate admissions. But just how does the waitlist affect yield?

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Anna Ivey Consulting

MAY 1, 2023

Can a law school force you to withdraw your pending applications at other schools in order to accept its offer, thereby effectively forcing you to give up your spots on waitlists? Here’s an example: I submit this commitment form to formalize my exclusive intent to enroll at the XYZ Law School beginning in the Fall 20XX semester.

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Humbach Education Consulting

MARCH 13, 2020

By now, application decisions should be rolling in to your inbox/mailbox. What does it mean to be on the waitlist? Why do colleges have waitlists? Why do colleges have waitlists? Students are being accepted to many colleges – but you can only enroll at one. But what if your “final” decision isn’t so final?

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AHM Advising

MARCH 28, 2022

You may have noticed that this year, in particular, colleges are handing out waitlist decisions like candy. It almost feels like "YOU get a spot on the waitlist and YOU get a spot on the waitlist.". Therein lies the role of the waitlist. Why not just put these poor students out of their misery and just deny them instead?

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CTK College Coach

APRIL 10, 2024

Colleges have an interest in protecting their yield— keeping acceptance percentages as high as possible— as well as managing enrollment— not over or under enrolling the number of students needed per year— so that is one place we see the intersection of yield and wait lists. Thank you for considering my application again.

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Humbach Education Consulting

MARCH 14, 2019

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE By now, application decisions should be rolling in to your inbox/mailbox. What does it mean to be on the waitlist? Why do colleges have waitlists? Why do colleges have waitlists? Students are being accepted to many colleges – but you can only enroll at one. No, thanks!”

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois, finalized is Regular Decision selection process and notified applicants of their decisions today, Friday, March 24. Last year Northwestern reviewed 51,554 applications. Northwestern’s Fall 2022 ED applicant pool grew by 3.5% to just over 5,200 applicants.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 15, 2024

The University of Texas at Austin is a public research university founded in 1883 with an undergraduate enrollment of over 42,000. ENROLL NOW Last year, UT Austin’s Class of 2027 received an all-time high number of applications — around 73,000. News & World Report in 2024. all else equal.”

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