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Waitlisted? What To Do Next

Berkeley² Academy

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. A waitlist decision puts prospective students in limbo.

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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 UNC 2024

The Koppelman Group

Many schools maintain a waitlist, and UNC is one of them. Every year, schools accept more applicants than they need. This is when they start to pull from the waitlist. UNC’s waitlist is competitive, and where you live will affect it. UNC is thankfully very upfront about publishing data and FAQs about their 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

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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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?