Excelsior Admissions Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

After the long process of college applications, it can be tough to be waitlisted at one of your top choice colleges. The first thing to do is to decide if you want to accept a place on the college's waitlist. Some colleges use their waitlists more than others. You can accept a spot on more than one waitlist.

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Berkeley² Academy

APRIL 6, 2024

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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Dr. Paul Lowe – Admissions Expert

AUGUST 5, 2024

Has your child been waitlisted at top boarding schools and not removed from the waitlist? Do you need help in navigating the boarding school admissions process and completing applications the second time around? Would you like your child to attend top US. boarding schools like Exeter, Andover, Choate, Lawrenceville, Taft, etc.?

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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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College Success

APRIL 14, 2024

As the application cycle ends, some students may be placed on a waitlist—which can feel like an uncertain middle ground. Here are a few things students (and parents) should consider if waitlisted. Why Colleges Have a Waitlist Waitlists are a way for universities to.

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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. We truly appreciate your interest in joining our university community.

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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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Anna Ivey Consulting

MARCH 7, 2023

Here are my top tips for taking control of your law school waitlists — and preserving your sanity in the process. It's important for you to have a process for managing your waitlists (and for managing your applications more generally!). You can take agency over your waitlists and your mindset.

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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. Therefore, we are anticipating enrolling between 50-70 students from the waitlist in the month of May. The waitlist activity typically concludes in June but can be extended through July, on an as-needed basis.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In recent years, Harvard has received over 60,000 applications for first-year admission, and accepted less than 2,000. Each year, Harvard waitlists a group of applicants instead of accepting or rejecting them. Some years, they go deep into the waitlist, accepting, they say , “more than 200 candidates.”

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

” NYU’s notable application growth from first year applicants has led to the private New York City-based university receiving a startling 98,000 Regular Decision applications during the 2022-2023 admissions cycle. Typically, NYU does not review its waitlist until after May 1.

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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

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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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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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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Princeton College Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While being deferred or waitlisted can be disappointing and in many respects can feel like a rejection, it is important to understand what being deferred or waitlisted means. Typically, a student who is deferred may still have a very strong application but the admissions committee feels they need to see a bit more from that student.

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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 25, 2024

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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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The undergraduate program received 27,936 applications in the 2022-2023 admissions cycle, and they admitted 4,077 — or 14.6%. If you are reading this, you probably already know that, as you probably received a waitlist decision. This process doesn’t have to be miserable or even mildly unpleasant…and then there is the Tulane waitlist.

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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%. Get on the Waitlist First, you need to get on the waitlist.

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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 4, 2024

You probably already know that the acceptance rate last year was a mere 7.3%, and while we don’t know the acceptance rate for this application cycle just yet it is likely to be even lower. What you might not know yet, though, are the in’s and out’s of the Cornell waitlist. The Cornell waitlist is historically massive.

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Marks Education

APRIL 12, 2023

And, alongside the clear outcomes—“Admitted” and “Not Admitted”—you might be faced with a less certain offer: the chance to pursue a college’s waitlist. It’s important to keep in mind that the chances of being admitted off of waitlists vary widely from college to college, and, in general, they don’t tend to be very high.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

You were likely among one of the nearly 40,000 applicants who vied for a place in the first-year class. During the 2022-23 application cycle, 1,710 students were offered a place on the waitlist. Some years, like in 2017 , Princeton accepts more than 100 students off the waitlist. Zero (yes, 0) were eventually admitted.

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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

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 6, 2024

In the 2022-2023 application cycle, Dartmouth offered 2098 applicants a place on the waitlist. Of that group, 1,785 claimed a spot on the waitlist — which is unranked. 41 applicants were eventually admitted off of the waitlist. of applicants were waitlisted and 2.3% Literally no one.

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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%. This is where the waitlist comes in. Notre Dame has a waitlist, but they don’t share the numbers.

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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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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. We truly appreciate your interest in joining our university community.

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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. And we’ve got it for you. Thank you, Stanford! Stanford hopes so!

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College Admissions Strategies

APRIL 22, 2024

So why would a student, aware that the chances of admission to a top college’s waitlist are slim, set herself up for another disappointment by joining their waitlist. […] The post What Students Should Do If Waitlisted This Spring appeared first on College Admissions Strategies.

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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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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. For the 2022-2023 year, 8,986 applicants were wait-listed.

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