22 May 2024
Class of 2028 Waitlist Notification Dates and Stats
UPDATE #2 (5/22)
For those of you who have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's our initial update of Class of 2028 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 2027 waitlist statistics from 84 private and public institutions. Our analysis paints the following picture:
- The number of students admitted from the waitlist increased 134 percent year over year from 19,000 for the Class of 2026 to 44,000 for the Class of 2027
- On average, 23 percent of Class of 2027 students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted, down from 19 percent in for the Class of 2026
- Students admitted from the waitlist accounted for 15 percent of Class of 2027 enrollments, up from 8 percent for the Class of 2026
- 42 percent of the schools sampled admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the waitlist for the Class of 2027 (vs. 67 percent for the Class of 2026)
Be sure to bookmark this page as we expect to be updating status over the next several weeks.
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Class of 2028 Waitlist Notification Dates and 2023 Statistics
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| Institution | Waitlist Offered (2023) | Waitlist Accepted (2023) | Waitlist Admitted (2023) | Admit Rate (2023) | Notification Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American | by 5/31 | Link | ||||
| Amherst | 924 | 599 | 47 | 8% | ||
| Bates | 2,198 | 855 | 68 | 8% | most by 6/30, no later than 8/1 | Link |
| Boston College | Expect active waitlist of 4,000 students | ADMISSIONS | ||||
| Boston University | 15,033 | 8,907 | 34 | 0% | ||
| Bowdoin | 0 | 0 | 29 | begins after 5/1 | Link | |
| Bucknell | 2,714 | 1,233 | 1 | 0% | ||
| Cal Poly Pomona | 1,807 | 925 | 791 | 86% | after 6/1 | Link |
| Cal Poly SLO | 13,176 | 0 | 193 | by 7/15 | Link | |
| Caltech | by mid-July | Link | ||||
| Carleton | 782 | 356 | 35 | 10% | ||
| Case Western | 11,841 | 7,940 | 1,141 | 14% | ||
| Chapman | after 5/1 | Link | ||||
| Claremont McKenna | 591 | 396 | 44 | 11% | ||
| Holy Cross | 3,700 | 1,572 | 42 | 3% | ||
| William & Mary | 3,833 | 1,918 | 136 | 7% | by 8/1; update mid-June | Link |
| Colorado College | 684 | 144 | 20 | 14% | ||
| Colorado School of Mines | by 5/15 | Link | ||||
| Connecticut College | 2,929 | 1,320 | 19 | 1% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Cornell | 8,282 | 6,166 | 362 | 6% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Dartmouth | 2,352 | 1,606 | 0 | 0% | by 6/30 | Link |
| Davidson | 1,616 | 710 | 14 | 2% | 5/1 - 6/24 | Link |
| Dickinson | 901 | 236 | 71 | 30% | begins mid-April; ~600 typically offered waitlist spot | Link |
| Emory | 5,875 | 3,372 | 123 | 4% | 6,081 offered waitlist to Emory College; 3,287 to Oxford College | ADMISSIONS |
| Georgetown | by 5/15 | ADMISSIONS | ||||
| Georgia Tech | 5,809 | 4,016 | 60 | 1% | after 5/15 | Link |
| Grinnell | by early July | Link | ||||
| Hamilton | 2,258 | 1,249 | 41 | 3% | begins 5/1 | Link |
| Harvey Mudd | 604 | 406 | 57 | 14% | ||
| Haverford | 1,342 | 740 | 27 | 4% | ||
| Howard | by 5/15 | Link | ||||
| Indiana | 2,657 | 1,317 | 1,143 | 87% | by 7/1 | Link |
| James Madison | 4,589 | 1,850 | 141 | 8% | majority in June, as late as 8/1 | Link |
| Johns Hopkins (RD) | 2,478 | 1,748 | 71 | 4% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Kenyon | by 6/30 | Link | ||||
| Lehigh | 4,456 | 2,098 | 144 | 7% | Link | |
| Macalester | 653 | 354 | 60 | 17% | by 5/31 | Link |
| Middlebury | 2,778 | 2,734 | 36 | 1% | ||
| MIT | update 5/15 at earliest | Link | ||||
| NYU | 0 | 0 | 0 | by 8/1 | Link | |
| NC State | 8,636 | 3,260 | 267 | 8% | by 6/15 | Link |
| Occidental | 1,534 | 841 | 60 | 7% | ||
| Ohio State | by 6/1 | Link | ||||
| Penn State | 4,903 | 3,114 | 84 | 3% | Link | |
| Pitzer | 621 | 202 | 10 | 5% | ||
| Pomona | 845 | 587 | 62 | 11% | update early-mid May | Link |
| Providence | 3,642 | 1,124 | 199 | 18% | update mid-May | Link |
| Purdue | 14,184 | 5,252 | 466 | 9% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Reed | 5,508 | 2,370 | 100 | 4% | beginning in April | Link |
| RPI | 2,574 | 1,735 | 74 | 4% | April-June | Link |
| Saint Michaels | typically by mid-June | Link | ||||
| Santa Clara | 4,978 | 2,944 | 367 | 12% | ||
| Scripps | 704 | 337 | 74 | 22% | begins late May | Link |
| Sewanee | 243 | 66 | 5 | 8% | ||
| Skidmore | 29,033 | 1,343 | 15 | 1% | ||
| SMU | 1,703 | 821 | 292 | 36% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Stanford | 607 | 506 | 76 | 15% | by 7/1 | Link |
| SUNY Stony Brook | 3,647 | 1,793 | 1,577 | 88% | ||
| Syracuse | 14,714 | 5,933 | 1,647 | 28% | after 6/1 | Link |
| TCU | 3,183 | 974 | 273 | 28% | typically final two weeks of April | Link |
| Trinity College | late April to 7/31 | Link | ||||
| Tulane | 4,062 | 2,168 | 43 | 2% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Union College | 441 | 206 | 22 | 11% | beginning late April | Link |
| UC Berkeley | 7,001 | 4,820 | 1,191 | 25% | between May and July | Link |
| UC Davis | between May and July | Link | ||||
| UC Irvine | between May and July | Link | ||||
| UCLA | between May and July | Link | ||||
| UC Merced | 0 | 0 | 0 | between May and July | Link | |
| UC Riverside | 8,074 | 3,891 | 1,145 | 29% | between May and July | Link |
| UCSD | 29,087 | 19,373 | 2,616 | 14% | mid-late summer | Link |
| UCSB | 15,689 | 9,670 | 5,493 | 57% | early May - July | Link |
| UCSC | 18,398 | 12,285 | 10,812 | 88% | between May and July | Link |
| UChicago | early summer | Link | ||||
| Georgia | 3,842 | 1,904 | 739 | 39% | by mid July, split into 2 groups (OOS/Intl and In-State); 3,627 waitlisted | Link |
| UIUC | 3,073 | 1,881 | 56 | 3% | by 6/30 | Link |
| UMass Amherst | 11,588 | 6,628 | 1,701 | 26% | beginning after 5/1 | Link |
| University of Miami | 21,869 | 7,758 | 215 | 3% | by 6/15 | Link |
| Michigan | 26,898 | 18,321 | 955 | 5% | typically by 6/30 | Link |
| UNC - Chapel Hill | by 6/30 | Link | ||||
| Notre Dame | 2,784 | 1,811 | 90 | 5% | begins between 5/3-5/15 | Link |
| Oregon | 1,111 | 435 | 235 | 54% | by 7/31 | Link |
| Pitt | 8,248 | 3,811 | 768 | 20% | on or before 6/1 | Link |
| URichmond | 4,098 | 2,178 | 36 | 2% | by 6/30 | Link |
| U Rochester | 2,108 | 1,191 | 185 | 16% | by 8/1 | Link |
| USD | 3,617 | 2,095 | 102 | 5% | after 5/1 | Link |
| Tennessee | 8,717 | 3,226 | 571 | 18% | Link | |
| Virginia | 57 offers on 4/9 and a small number on 5/16; resolve by 6/15 | Link | ||||
| Washington | 7,915 | 4,122 | 2,985 | 72% | after 6/1 | Link |
| Wisconsin | 13,364 | 7,221 | 4,436 | 61% | by 7/31 | Link |
| Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 140 | early May - end of June | Link | |
| Vassar | 919 | 501 | 60 | 12% | ||
| Virginia Tech | 12,348 | 7,148 | 0 | 0% | by 7/1 | Link |
| Washington and Lee | 1,268 | 669 | 0 | 0% | after 5/1 | Link |
| WUSTL | by 6/30 | Link | ||||
| Wellesley | 2,389 | 1,180 | 19 | 2% | before 8/1 | Link |
| Wesleyan | 2,532 | 1,359 | 201 | 15% | by 6/30 | Link |
| Williams | 1,606 | 637 | 3 | 0% | begins in May, typically 600-750 students on WL | Link |
| Yale | 1,145 | 899 | 0 | 0% | 773 offered WL | Link |
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