For those of you who have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's our initial update of Class of 2029 waitlist notification dates and status where available.  

To get a sense for what's happening at the macro level, we took a look at recently released Class of 2028 waitlist statistics from 68 private and public institutions.  Our analysis paints the following picture:

• The number of students admitted from the waitlist increased 10 percent year over year from 41,000 for the Class of 2027 to 46,000 for the Class of 2028

• On average, 26 percent of Class of 2028 students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted, up from 23 percent in for the Class of 2027

• Students admitted from the waitlist accounted for 19 percent of Class of 2028 enrollments, up from 15 percent for the Class of 2027

• 39 percent of the schools sampled admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the waitlist for the Class of 2028 (vs. 45 percent for the Class of 2027)

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Here's our latest list of reported overall admission rates for the Class of 2029. Results are now available for American, Amherst, Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Bowdoin, Bucknell, Colby, Colgate, Columbia, Colorado College, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Fairfield, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Holy Cross, MIT,  Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Oberlin, Rice, Skidmore, Swarthmore, Tufts, University of Georgia,. University of Richmond, USC, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Villanova, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams College, and Yale.  Latest year application totals are available for many more.

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Several more colleges are reinstating SAT and ACT requirements for Fall 2026. As the admissions landscape shifts again, students should make sure to keep up to date on individual school policies and consider preparing for standardized testing . 

While the vast majority of institutions in our coverage universe still offer some form of test-optional admissions, a number of institutions have reinstated standardized testing requirements after going test-optional during the pandemic.

Click on Continue Reading to see our list of schools who have reinstated requirements for the 2025-26 cycle. For your convenience, we've included admit rates and links to each school's standardized test policy details to help you find suitable candidates for your college list.

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Bowdoin College announced it admitted 6.8 percent of applicants to the Class of 2029.  

A total of 14,045 applications were received, and 952 students were accepted across all rounds, resulting in an admission rate of 6.8 percent, the lowest in the College's history.

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Vanderbilt University reported it admitted 3.3 percent of regular decision applicants to the Class of 2029.

A total of 1,411 regular decision applicants were admitted from a pool of 43,332.

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Duke announced today that it offered regular admission to 1,953 students for the Class of 2029.

A total of 58,698 applications were received, and with the admits from the Early Decision and Early Deferral processes, the overall admit rate was 4.8%  

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Rice University announced that it admitted 7.8 percent of applicants to the Class of 2029.  

A total of 2,852 students were accepted from a pool of 36,777 applicants.  

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Georgetown announced today that afer reviewing their undergraduate admissions processes that it will be launching a three-year pilot program where applicants can use the Common Application in addition to Georgetown's own application. 

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Dartmouth announced today that it accepted 1,702 applicants to the Class of 2029.  

Applications totaled 28,230 for the year, down nearly 11 percent from the previous year, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 6 percent.

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Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science announced it admitted  4.29 percent of applicants for the class of 2029, accepting 2,557 students from a pool of 59,616 applications.

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Brown announced today that it admitted 2,418 applicants to the Class of 2029.  

A total of 42,765 applications were received for the year, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 6 percent.

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Yale announced today that it accepted 4.59 percent of applicants to the Class of 2029 .

1,580 regular decision acceptances were offered in additioon to 728 early action acceptances and 66 Questbridge applicants from a pool of 50,227.  

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Amherst College announced that it admitted 7 percent of applicants to the Class of 2029. 

1,175 students were admitted from a record-high pool of over 15,818 applicants.     

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Boston College announced that it admitted 12.6 percent of applicants to the Class of 2029.  

39,681 applications were received, making this one of the most selective classes yet.

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NYU announced today that it admitted 7.7 percent of applicants to its New York campus to the Class of 2029.  

More than 120,000 applications were received, up 13 percent year over year.

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