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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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It gives you a sense of just how competitive the process is and helps you set realistic goals for your application. For the Class of 2028 , the university received a record-breaking 65,235 applications and accepted only 3,508 students. Historically, ED applicants have a better shot because it’s a smaller, more committed pool.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Institutional research can help you unlock enrollment insights. I’ve been thinking about these relationships in my work at RNL, which centers on helping institutions advance their marketing and enrollment success. Enrollment data. This may be one of the factors at play for the decline in our applications.”

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IvyWise College Admissions Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

You put time and effort into your application and supplements, only to find out you’ve been placed on the waitlist. What Is a College Waitlist? A college waitlist is a list of students who are waiting for admission into a specific school. What Are the Chances to Get Accepted if You Are Waitlisted?

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Inside Emory Admission

MAY 15, 2024

We would like to provide a comprehensive update on the waitlist activity for Emory College and Oxford College at Emory University. Emory College As of May 15, 2024, we are pleased to report that the enrolling class at Emory College has met our expected enrollment target and exceeded it.

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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. As of May 8, we were pleased to report that the enrolling class at Emory College and Oxford College not only met our expected enrollment targets but slightly exceeded them.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 1, 2025

UChicago Acceptance Rate Trends UChicago Regular Decision Acceptance Rate UChicago Early Action Acceptance Rate UChicago Early Decision Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into UChicago UChicago Transfer Acceptance Rate UChicago Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is UChicagos Acceptance Rate? 2027 38,631 4.8%

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) received a record-breaking surge in applications for the Fall 2025 term. Applications for freshman admission increased 24.3% this year, for a staggering total of 90,562 applications. This decision will be communicated to applicants by January 15.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

MARCH 25, 2023

Admit, deny, waitlist decisions coming out from colleges. At Georgia Tech this year, we admitted 16% of applicants. Some students did not complete their application, some canceled before we could make an admission decision, and some are currently waitlisted. In March and April, college admission is full of decisions.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From my biggest lens of “digital strategy” across our campus partners’ enrollment funnels, marketing strategies, research, and CRM implementations and optimizations, Gen AI can be incorporated to automate, augment, and accelerate current processes.

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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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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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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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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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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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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Last year , in the 2022-2023 application cycle, Wellesley received over 8,000 applications and admitted just 1,138 students for an acceptance rate of only 14%. When they miscalculate, they turn to their waitlist. 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 9, 2024

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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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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Inside Emory Admission

JUNE 14, 2024

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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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 21, 2023

Applicants who accept their offers of admission will join the 255 incoming students admitted through early decision in December to form the Class of 2027. This year, the College received 10,315 applications in the regular decision round, a decline of more than a quarter since last year.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 4, 2023

See highlights from Yale’s official announcement below: Yale College admitted 2,275 students to the class of 2027 from its largest-ever pool of 52,250 applicants, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions announced on Thursday. An additional 1,145 applicants were offered spots on the waitlist. for the class of 2025, 6.54

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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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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 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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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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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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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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