06 Apr Class of 2020 Waitlist Admission Rates and Notification Dates
For students waitlisted at their top choices, we found a list of 2015-16 waitlist statistics for several popular private and public schools, along with notification dates and links for more detail if available.
Sample of waitlist statistics from 160 private and public institutions paints the following picture:
- On average, 17 percent of students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted
- 58 percent of the schools admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the wait list last year
- 41 percent of the schools admitted 5 percent or less
- 12 percent 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, it’s financial aid budget and specifically yield from Jamaica could make a difference.
Waitlist Admission Rates and Notification Dates (2015-16)
| Institution | Waitlist Offered | Waitlist Accepted | Waitlist Admitted | Admit Rate | Notification Date | Link |
| American | 2,778 | 269 | 8 | 3% | by 5/15 | Link |
| Amherst | 1,398 | 643 | 33 | 5% | Link | |
| Barnard | 1,195 | 130 | 6 | 5% | beginning 5/15 | Link |
| Bates | 1,535 | 671 | 11 | 2% | typically early May – late June, no later than August 1 | Link |
| Boston College | 7,072 | 3,897 | 351 | 9% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Bowdoin | by 7/31 | Link | ||||
| Cal Poly SLO | 1,888 | 134 | by 5/15 | Link | ||
| Carleton | 1,350 | 442 | 16 | 4% | ||
| Carnegie Mellon | 5,526 | 2,835 | 4 | 0% | by 6/1 (priority waitlist candidates first) | Link |
| Claremont McKenna | 919 | 453 | 75 | 17% | ||
| Colby | 1,497 | 634 | 42 | 7% | ||
| Colgate | 1,896 | 913 | 49 | 5% | by 8/1 | Link |
| College of William & Mary | 3,552 | 1,676 | 187 | 11% | status mid-June, decision by 8/1 | Link |
| Colorado College | 1,119 | 232 | 24 | 10% | most by mid-May, some as late as June | Link |
| Colorado School of Mines | 1,654 | 236 | 6 | 3% | by 5/21 | Link |
| Connecticut College | 1,306 | 637 | 61 | 10% | Link | |
| Cornell | 3,583 | 2,231 | 81 | 4% | Link | |
| Dartmouth | 1,852 | 963 | 129 | 13% | mid-May to 7/1 | Link |
| Emory (Emory) | 3,809 | 1,910 | 45 | 2% | by 6/1 | Link |
| George Washington | 3,827 | 1,354 | 62 | 5% | ||
| Georgetown | 2,188 | 1,301 | 141 | 11% | ||
| Georgia Tech | 3,397 | 2,031 | 38 | 2% | by 6/1 | Link |
| Hamilton | 958 | 365 | 47 | 13% | ||
| Hampshire | 128 | 47 | 5 | 11% | early May | Link |
| Harvey Mudd | 534 | 354 | 11 | 3% | ||
| Haverford | 883 | 354 | 12 | 3% | ||
| Johns Hopkins | 2,752 | 1,747 | 187 | 11% | ||
| Kenyon | 2,876 | 998 | 17 | 2% | early May to mid-July | Link |
| Lewis & Clark | 775 | 221 | 1 | 0% | late April to mid-May | Link |
| Middlebury | 1,304 | 530 | 33 | 6% | early May to mid-June | Link |
| MIT | 652 | 575 | 52 | 9% | by mid-May | Link |
| Mt. Holyoke | 785 | 459 | 7 | 2% | ||
| NC State | 2,433 | 1,010 | 19 | 2% | by 6/15 | Link |
| Northwestern | 2,614 | 1,452 | 43 | 3% | ||
| Oberlin | 1,126 | 459 | 86 | 19% | ||
| Occidental | 705 | 359 | 26 | 7% | ||
| Pitzer | 1,021 | 895 | 23 | 3% | by 7/15 | Link |
| Pomona | 842 | 492 | 38 | 8% | beginning early to mid-May | Link |
| Princeton | 1,206 | 857 | 39 | 5% | Link | |
| Rice | 2,237 | 1,659 | 127 | 8% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Scripps | 641 | 284 | 0 | 0% | beginning mid-May | Link |
| Smith | 773 | 398 | 132 | 33% | ||
| SMU | 1,757 | 572 | 122 | 21% | Link | |
| Stanford | 1,256 | 927 | 0 | 0% | update mid-May, finalized by 7/1 | Link |
| Trinity College | 1,766 | 664 | 16 | 2% | mid-April to 7/1 | Link |
| Tulane | 3,413 | 921 | 0 | 0% | by 6/1 | Link |
| UC Davis | 9,033 | 2,733 | 2,030 | 74% | by 6/1 | Link |
| UC Irvine | 7,361 | 4,035 | 131 | 3% | Link | |
| UC Riverside | 6,231 | 3,737 | 2,770 | 74% | Link | |
| UC Santa Barbara | 5,006 | 2,910 | 278 | 10% | by 6/30 | Link |
| UC Santa Cruz | 3,655 | 1,320 | 0 | 0% | early June | Link |
| UIUC | 3,008 | 1,875 | 1,015 | 54% | by early June | Link |
| UMass Amherst | 5,450 | 1,278 | 26 | 2% | ||
| Michigan | 14,960 | 4,512 | 90 | 2% | late June | Link |
| UNC – Chapel Hill | 3,144 | 1,513 | 78 | 5% | by 6/30 | Link |
| Notre Dame | 1,602 | 869 | 0 | 0% | mid-May to late June | Link |
| Oregon | 1,186 | 481 | 31 | 6% | by 6/15 | Link |
| U Richmond | 4,070 | 1,547 | 151 | 10% | 5/1 – 6/30 | Link |
| Vermont | 3,759 | 866 | 0 | 0% | by 6/1 | Link |
| Virginia | 4,547 | 2,081 | 402 | 19% | 5/7 – 6/30 | Link |
| Vassar | 1,017 | 485 | 10 | 2% | early May to 7/1 | Link |
| Virginia Tech | 2,118 | 1,544 | 0 | 0% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Washington and Lee | 1,983 | 764 | 193 | 25% | beginning late April | Link |
| Wellesley | 1,404 | 843 | 30 | 4% | 3rd week in May to 6/30 | Link |
| Wesleyan | 1,877 | 884 | 12 | 1% | by 6/30 | Link |
| Whitman | 872 | 370 | 67 | 18% | ||
| Willamette | 433 | 168 | 53 | 32% | ||
| Williams | 1,603 | 573 | 53 | 9% |
Source: College Kickstart LLC
