Waitlist Admission Rates and Notification Dates

Editorial team May 13, 2015 · 5 min read
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waitlistpie1415b127For those of you that have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's a list of waitlist statistics for several popular private and public schools, along with notification dates and links for more detail if available.  

Our sample of waitlist statistics from 127 private and public institutions paints the following picture:

  • On average, 18% of students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted
  • Half of the schools admitted 10% or less of the students accepting a place on the wait list last year
  • 35% of the schools admitted 5% or less
  • 9% admitted no one

There are several factors driving the low rates, including the size of the waitlist (often very large), and how well a school anticipates its admissions yield. 

Click Continue Reading for the list.

 

 

Waitlist Admission Rates (2014-15) and Notification Dates
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Institution Offered Listed Admitted Admit Rate Notification Date Link
American 1,252 73 24 33% by 5/15 Link
Amherst 1,341 600 61 10%   Link
Austin College 12 6 0 0%    
Barnard 1,108 573 21 4% beginning 5/15 Link
Bates 1,595 694 26 4% early May - August 1 Link
Beloit 10 3 1 33%    
Boston College 4,695 2,542 210 8% by 7/1 Link
Bryn Mawr 696 351 33 9%    
Bucknell 1,822 705 57 8%    
Butler 587 175 83 47%    
Carleton 1,275 371 9 2%   Link
Carnegie Mellon 3,104 1,630 73 4% 5/6 for priority waitlist; 5/15-6/1 for regular Link
Case Western 8,493 4,670 792 17%    
Centre College 124 31 8 26%    
Claremont McKenna 614 349 38 11%    
Clark 651 232 90 39%   Link
Colby 1,400 662 31 5% by mid-June Link
Colgate 1,707 766 56 7% by 8/1 Link
Holy Cross 816 343 0 0%   Link
William & Mary 3,603 1,526 59 4% status mid-June, decision by 8/1 Link
College of Wooster 567 83 19 23%    
Colorado College 874 198 24 12%   Link
Colorado School of Mines 1,800 136 6 4% by 5/17 Link
Connecticut College 1,298 560 73 13%   Link
Cornell 3,143 2,026 96 5%   Link
Dartmouth 1,855 1,133 0 0% mid-May to 7/1 Link
Dickinson 801 280 0 0%   Link
Earlham 241 237 93 39%    
Elon 3,193 1,265 208 16%   Link
Fairfield 1,690 429 15 3%   Link
Franklin & Marshall 1,385 411 76 18%   Link
Furman 197 42 17 40%    
George Mason 2,310 1,109 684 62%    
George Washington 3,770 986 113 11%    
Georgetown 2,188 1,301 114 9%    
Georgia Tech 3,900 2,150 174 8% throughout May Link
Gonzaga 555 171 162 95%    
Goucher 56 40 8 20%    
Grinnell 1,532 602 70 12%    
Hamilton 919 438 21 5%    
Hampshire 241 90 27 30% early May Link
Harvey Mudd 596 399 14 4%   Link
Haverford 831 368 5 1%    
Hobart and Wm Smith 763 189 21 11%    
Ithaca College 3,986 709 220 31%    
James Madison 3,684 1,987 166 8% majority in June, as late as 8/1 Link
Kalamazoo 365 111 61 55%    
Kenyon 2,397 642 38 6%   Link
Knox College 52 8 1 13%    
Lafayette 1,827 464 37 8%   Link
Lawrence 101 95 33 35%    
Lehigh 3,691 1,296 2 0%    
Lewis & Clark 396 146 21 14%    
Macalester 510 269 215 80%    
Marquette 5,187 1,784 796 45%   Link
Middlebury 1,525 663 1 0% mid-May to mid-June Link
Mt. Holyoke 440 268 4 1%    
Muhlenberg 1,759 370 19 5%    
Northwestern 2,767 1,587 55 3%    
Occidental 792 297 65 22%    
Ohio State - Columbus 1,397 239 239 100%    
Pomona 651 324 0 0%    
Princeton 1,138 818 41 5%   Link
Providence 1,936 602 163 27% May Link
Purdue 1,215 1,208 368 30% June Link
Reed 829 351 59 17%    
RPI 4,984 2,851 77 3%    
Rhodes 738 154 52 34%   Link
Rose-Hulman 379 131 2 2%    
St. Lawrence 94 21 11 52%    
Saint Anselm 351 134 7 5%    
Saint Michael's 182 51 0 0% typically mid-June Link
Saint Olaf 562 467 75 16%    
San Diego State 4,126 1,945 47 2%    
SCU 2,463 1,337 71 5%    
Sarah Lawrence 546 156 24 15%    
Scripps 683 277 0 0% mid-May Link
Sewanee 238 75 7 9% 4/15 to 7/1 Link
Skidmore 1,692 385 0 0%    
Smith 656 362 79 22%    
SMU 1,345 476 98 21%   Link
Southwestern 92 10 5 50%    
Spelman 364 290 13 4%    
Stanford 958 695 7 1%    
SUNY Geneseo 560 92 10 11%   Link
SUNY Stony Brook 3,271 1,421 623 44% June Link
Stonehill 474 164 79 48%   Link
TCU 1,236 416 64 15%   Link
TCNJ 1,715 520 238 46%    
Trinity College 1,766 664 16 2% 4/15 to 7/1 Link
Tulane 2,774 705 327 46% by 6/1 Link
UC Berkeley 3,375 2,143 437 20%   Link
UC Davis 6,352 2,177 12 1% by 6/1 Link
UC Irvine 3,260 1,479 1,171 79%    
UC Riverside 4,474 2,608 276 11%    
UC Santa Barbara 3,956 2,332 152 7%    
UC Santa Cruz 3,655 1,320 0 0%   Link
University of Denver 1,547 499 74 15%    
UMass Amherst 5,228 1,403 26 2% mid-May Link
UMass - Lowell 553 196 0 0%    
Michigan 12,631 4,457 91 2% late June Link
UNC - Chapel Hill 3,154 1,563 31 2% by 6/30 Link
UPenn 2,651 1,600 136 9%    
Pitt 2,492 572 289 51%    
Puget Sound 477 170 11 6%    
URI 1,452 457 10 2%    
U Richmond 3,621 1,466 12 1% 5/1 - 6/30 Link
University of San Diego 2,028 772 51 7%   Link
UT Austin 769 213 18 8%    
Vermont 3,093 748 175 23% by 6/1 Link
Virginia 5,543 3,456 42 1% 5/7 - 6/30 Link
Washington 2,150 900 198 22%    
Vanderbilt 6,018 4,536 210 5% beginning first week in May Link
Villanova 5,081 1,943 464 24%    
VMI 429 150 15 10%    
Virginia Tech 2,294 1,587 750 47% by 7/1 Link
Wabash College 38 6 2 33%    
Washington and Lee 2,271 827 72 9% beginning late April Link
Wellesley 1,182 687 85 12% by 6/30 Link
Wesleyan 1,995 893 70 8% majority in May, may extend to June Link
Wheaton - IL 449 149 64 43%    
Wheaton - MA 300 90 22 24% by 7/1 Link
Whitman 862 315 59 19%    
Willamette 301 124 46 37%    
Williams 1,238 594 70 12%    
WPI 3,023 1,725 203 12% between 5/1 and 6/1 Link
Yale 1,324 837 14 2%   Link