Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 1, 2023

As regular decision notifications are released, we know there are many seniors who will be waitlisted. Unfortunately, for waitlisted students who are interested in schools like the UCs, you’ll be waiting until at least May 1 (decision deadline day) to learn whether you have been accepted off the waitlist. WAITLISTED?

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SSA Online College Prep

JANUARY 5, 2024

How do college waitlists work ? How do colleges decide who is admitted off the waitlist? Waitlisted? Here’s What You Should Know Were you waitlisted and are you now wondering about your odds? How does the college waitlist work? When do I get a decision ? How can I increase my chances of admission ? Don’t panic.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

But, since it’s that time of year in admissions land, I’m going to embrace those two letters to explain a few truths about waitlists. Can I give someone from the waitlist my spot? Is the waitlist ranked? A waitlist for a college is not the same as a line outside of a concert or restaurant. The waitlist sucks.

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road2college

MARCH 16, 2024

Ugh, the dreaded waitlist. The post Parents Share The Ugly Truth of College Waitlists—And How To Handle It appeared first on Road2College. If there’s one thing that drives students and parents crazy, it’s ending up on a college’s.

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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

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

MARCH 2, 2024

When it comes to Vassar’s waitlist, last year they offered 1336 waitlist spots. 638 students accepted their spot and they offered admission to 32 students on the waitlist. This translates to about a 5% chance of getting accepted off the waitlist. That being said, fluctuation is natural with waitlists.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s also a super hard to get into school, and if you’re here, you’ve been waitlisted and don’t know what to do next. Georgetown’s acceptance rate for 2022 was around 12% – a very competitive rate, which translates to their waitlist data. 40 of those students were accepted off the waitlist. Reach out to us today.

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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 29, 2024

When they miscalculate, they turn to their waitlist. That same year, in the 2022-2023 application cycle, they offered 2,389 students a place on the waitlist — which is a massive percentage of applicants (nearly 30%). 1,180 accepted a spot on the waitlist, and 19 were eventually admitted, or.8% What’s the takeaway?

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 10, 2024

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. And unsurprisingly, the odds of getting off that waitlist seem to be better.

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Inside Emory Admission

MAY 30, 2023

We would like to provide a comprehensive update regarding the waitlist activity at Emory University for Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 enrollment. Initially, we had anticipated enrolling approximately 50-70 students from the waitlist to Emory College (the Atlanta campus).

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Many schools maintain a waitlist, and UNC is one of them. 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. If you want to be on the waitlist, you must accept your spot.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

If you are reading this, you probably already know that, as you probably received a waitlist decision. We write a lot of these “what to do if you’re waitlisted” posts this time of year, as we’re trying to provide students with as many resources as possible as they face some of the most stressful decisions they’ve made so far in their life.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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. That same year, in the spring of 2023, Pomona offered a spot on the waitlist to 845 students — even more than they accepted. As far as waitlists go, these aren’t terrible odds.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As they’ve become a preferred college of top high school students, Rice hasn’t had to lean on their waitlist to fill the first-year class. But they also don’t brag about how few students they let in off of the waitlist (which some other schools do — rude, we agree). Get on the Waitlist First, you need to get on the waitlist.

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Dr. Paul Lowe – Admissions Expert

MARCH 5, 2024

Since mid-Februaty our New Jersey affiliate: New Jersey Admissions Advisors , has been receiving many emails and phone calls from anxious and saddened parents who reside in New Jersey whose children have been waitlisted, or worse, rejected from private day schools in New Jersey. Here is a list of some of the schools.

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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. So, if you’ve been waitlisted, it likely has little to do with who you are and has a lot to do with demand for beds.

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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

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. It’s neither a guarantee nor a rejection, so the uncertainty can be overwhelming.

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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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Estrela Consulting Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

However, if you've been waitlisted by a school and you just aren't ready to abandon the possibility that there MIGHT be a chance of admission, here are 5 steps you can take to (potentially) increase your chances: Is this a positive thing? Or just a confusing and frustrating area of limbo for you as you wait for a final decision?

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 7, 2024

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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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

That same year, 2,754 students were offered a place on the waitlist, and 1,557 took them up on the offer. Ultimately , 81 students were offered a place off of the waitlist, or 5.2%. That said, waitlists aren’t really something that can be counted on to be standard from year to year, so it’s hard to track trends.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 3, 2024

But you’re not here to know overall acceptance data – you’re here to learn about the CMC waitlist and how to get off of it. Thankfully, CMC actually shares their waitlist data, so we know that in 2022, 850 students were offered a spot on their waitlist. Out of those 850, 538 accepted spots on the waitlist.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

But you’re not here for that basic knowledge, you’re here for waitlist info. For 2022, which is the most recent data we have, we know that Stanford offered the waitlist to 553 students, and 457 of those students accepted their spot on the waitlist. If you need help with the Stanford waitlist questions, reach out to us today.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, one way that Duke is not super awesome is how secretive they are around their waitlist. They have basically no resources online about their waitlist and publish almost nothing about the waitlisting process. So, if Duke has waitlisted you, you might feel like you have no idea where to start.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is where the waitlist comes in. Notre Dame has a waitlist, but they don’t share the numbers. In the 2022-2023 Common Data Set, they went so far as to omit the waitlist numbers from the reporting form, even though comparable highly-selective schools share them. That’s simply the cost of playing the waitlist game.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

If you’re here, you were probably waitlisted by Brown and want to know what kind of concrete next steps you can take. We did a little digging into Brown’s waitlist history, and it’s a little murky. In 2022, we have no idea how many students were offered a space on the waitlist. success rate of getting off the waitlist.

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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% You don’t even need to rush deciding if you want to be on the waitlist at all.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While we don’t know how many students they offered spots on the waitlist, nor how many accepted spots on the waitlist, we do know that in 2023 they only accepted 29 waitlisted students. If you’ve been waitlisted, don’t give up hope -- give yourself the best chance of securing an acceptance with a letter of continued interest.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If you’ve been waitlisted by Columbia, you know the path to admission is very hard, but not completely impossible. Today, we’re going to talk about the actionable things you can do to get off the waitlist. First, let’s see Columbia’s data on their waitlist! …oh. If you’re on a waitlist and feeling anxious, we can help!

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2024

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. Don’t check obsessively. That’s not healthy.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

During the 2022-23 application cycle, 1,710 students were offered a place on the waitlist. So, if you weren’t part of the initial admitted class (a <6% acceptance rate), and were instead offered a spot on the waitlist, you are facing daunting odds. That isn’t because the waitlist was particularly strong in 2017 or weak in 2018.

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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. If you’re on a waitlist and feeling anxious, we can help!

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

What you might not know yet, though, are the in’s and out’s of the Cornell waitlist. The Cornell waitlist is historically massive. In the 2022-23 application cycle, 5,168 applicants were accepted and 7,729 were offered a spot on the waitlist. Of that group, 5,531 accepted a spot on the waitlist.

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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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