Waitlist Admission Rates

For waitlisted students, it can be hard to judge just how much of a chance they have of getting accepted off the waitlist. Data around waitlist acceptances can be scarce, especially as waitlists at top colleges grow and more and more schools become less transparent about their admissions statistics. The college counselors at IvyWise, however, have dug into the data and have some insight into waitlist admission rates.

What Are My Chances of Getting off the Waitlist?

According to data from the National Association of College Admissions Counseling, colleges on average admit 20% of students off the waitlist. At the most selective institutions, that figure was 7%. In reality, since waitlist decisions can come as late as weeks before the start of the fall semester, families usually don’t have a good sense of how many students are admitted off waitlists each year.

Recent Waitlist Admission Rates

Waitlist admission rates can vary from school to school and even year to year, especially as colleges have seen record-breaking application numbers over the past few years. Here is a list of colleges and universities and their waitlist admit rates from the past two years.

School	Class of 2029	Class of 2028
American University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 948 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 328 Waitlist acceptance rate: 34.60%
Amherst College	Applicants on the waitlist: 740 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 44 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.95%	Applicants on the waitlist: 623 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 8 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.28%
Arizona State University	No waitlist	No waitlist
Auburn University	No waitlist	No waitlist
Babson College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,458 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 105 Waitlist acceptance rate: 7.20%
Barnard College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,567 Accepted from waitlist: 148 Waitlist acceptance rate: 9.44%
Bates College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 883 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 34 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.85%
Baylor University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 756 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 241 Waitlist acceptance rate: 31.88%
Belmont University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 0 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%
Bentley University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 410 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 225 Waitlist acceptance rate: 54.88%
Binghamton University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,272 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 842 Waitlist acceptance rate: 19.71%
Boston College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,139 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 352 Waitlist acceptance rate: 8.50%
Boston University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 8,996 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 18 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.20%
Bowdoin College	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 5 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 22 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Brandeis University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 616 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 336 Waitlist acceptance rate: 54.55%
Brown University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 118 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Bryn Mawr College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 285 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 23 Waitlist acceptance rate: 8.07%
Bucknell University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,470 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 115 Waitlist acceptance rate: 7.82%
California Polytechnic State University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 2,905 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Caltech	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 171 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 41 Waitlist acceptance rate: 23.98%
Carleton College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 242 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 52 Waitlist acceptance rate: 21.49%
Carnegie Mellon University	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,937 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 36 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.73%	Applicants on the waitlist: 10,062 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 32 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.32%
Case Western Reserve University	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 688 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,478 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,282 Waitlist acceptance rate: 28.63%
Chapman University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,144 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 523 Waitlist acceptance rate: 45.72%
Claremont McKenna College	Applicants on the waitlist: 469 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 61 Waitlist acceptance rate: 13.01%	Applicants on the waitlist: 621 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 33 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.31%
Clark University	Waitlist data not published	Applicants on the waitlist: 309 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 57 Waitlist acceptance rate: 18.45%
Clemson University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 3,598 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 112 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.11%
Colgate University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,338 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 48 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.59%
College of Charleston	Applicants on the waitlist: 972 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 521 Waitlist acceptance rate: 53.60%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,303 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 491 Waitlist acceptance rate: 37.68%
College of the Holy Cross	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data TBA
College of William and Mary	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,901 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 103 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.42%	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,063 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 207 Waitlist acceptance rate: 10.03%
Colorado College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 140 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 32 Waitlist acceptance rate: 22.86%
Columbia University	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
Connecticut College	Applicants on the waitlist: 471 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 5 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.06%	Applicants on the waitlist: 607 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 9 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.48%
Cornell University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 6,190 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 388 Waitlist acceptance rate: 6.27%
Dartmouth College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,189 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 29 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.32%
Davidson College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 860 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 35 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.07%
Denison University	Applicants on the waitlist: 347 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 31 Waitlist acceptance rate: 8.93%	Applicants on the waitlist: 464 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 76 Waitlist acceptance rate: 16.38%
DePaul University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 282 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 228 Waitlist acceptance rate: 80.85%
Dickinson College	Applicants on the waitlist: 63 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 8 Waitlist acceptance rate: 12.70%	Applicants on the waitlist: 76 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 24 Waitlist acceptance rate: 31.58%
Drexel University	Waitlist data not published	Waitlist data not published
Duke University	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
Elon University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 815 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 101 Waitlist acceptance rate: 12.39%
Emory University (Emory campus)	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 3,355 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 109 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.25%
Fairfield University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,477 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 22 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.89%
Florida State University	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist began with the class of 2029 admission cycle
Fordham University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,898 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 440 Waitlist acceptance rate: 15.18%
Furman University	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
Georgia Tech	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,875 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 653 Waitlist acceptance rate: 13.39%	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,471 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 201 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.50%
George Washington University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,844 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,188 Waitlist acceptance rate: 41.77%
Georgetown University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,023 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 163 Waitlist acceptance rate: 8.06%
Gonzaga University	Applicants on the waitlist: 241 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 66 Waitlist acceptance rate: 27.39%	Applicants on the waitlist: 243 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 59 Waitlist acceptance rate: 24.28%
Grinnell College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,180 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 36 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.05%
Hamilton College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 946 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 35 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.70%
Harvard University	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 75 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 41 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Harvey Mudd College	Applicants on the waitlist: 439 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%	Applicants on the waitlist: 403 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 53 Waitlist acceptance rate: 13.15%
Haverford College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 718 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.42%
Howard University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 476 Applicants accepted from waitlist: not published Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Indiana University Bloomington	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,434 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 97 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.99%	Applicants on the waitlist: 3,059 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3,041 Waitlist acceptance rate: 99.41%
Johns Hopkins University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,614 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 30 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.86%
Kenyon College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 797 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 43 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.40%
Lafayette College	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,316 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 171 Waitlist acceptance rate: 12.99%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,120 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 81 Waitlist acceptance rate: 7.23%
Lehigh University	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,988 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 80 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.02%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,717 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 113 Waitlist acceptance rate: 6.58%
Lewis & Clark College	Applicants on the waitlist: 35 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 2 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.71%	Applicants on the waitlist: 73 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 16 Waitlist acceptance rate: 21.92%
Loyola Marymount University	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 208 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 222 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Loyola University Chicago	Waitlist data TBA	No waitlist
Macalester College	Applicants on the waitlist: 446 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 82 Waitlist acceptance rate: 18.39%	Applicants on the waitlist: 507 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 63 Waitlist acceptance rate: 12.43%
Marquette University	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,397 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 183 Waitlist acceptance rate: 13.10%	Applicants on the waitlist: 452 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 113 Waitlist acceptance rate: 25.00%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 509 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 9 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.77%
Miami University – Ohio	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 632 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 236 Waitlist acceptance rate: 37.34%
Michigan State University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,134 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3,596 Waitlist acceptance rate: 86.99%
Middlebury College	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,878 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 109 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.80%	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,256 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 45 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.99%
Montana State University	Waitlist data TBA	No waitlist
New York University	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
North Carolina State University	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,311 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 476 Waitlist acceptance rate: 11.04%	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,194 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 261 Waitlist acceptance rate: 6.22%
Northeastern University	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
Northwestern University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from the waitlist: 59 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Oberlin College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 330 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 41 Waitlist acceptance rate: 12.42%
Occidental College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 437 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 71 Waitlist acceptance rate: 16.25%
Ohio State University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 0 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%
Pace University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 77 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 4 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.19%
Pennsylvania State University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,248 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 654 Waitlist acceptance rate: 52.40%
Pepperdine University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 790 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 785 Waitlist acceptance rate: 99.37%
Pitzer College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 209 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 34 Waitlist acceptance rate: 16.27%
Pomona College	Applicants on the waitlist: 716 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 31 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.33%	Applicants on the waitlist: 680 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 58 Waitlist acceptance rate: 8.53%
Princeton University	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,086 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 36 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.31%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,396 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 40 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.87%
Providence College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,098 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 251 Waitlist acceptance rate: 22.86%
Purdue University	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,047 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3,916 Waitlist acceptance rate: 96.76%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,860 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 9 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.48%
Reed College	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,597 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 110 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.24%	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,237 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 101 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.51%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Applicants on the waitlist: 599 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 6 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.00%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,236 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 33 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.67%
Rice University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,794 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 122 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.37%
Rochester Institute of Technology	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 711 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 100 Waitlist acceptance rate: 14.06%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Applicants on the waitlist: 29 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.45%	Applicants on the waitlist: 128 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 11 Waitlist acceptance rate: 8.59%
San Diego State University	Applicants on the waitlist: 6,016 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 962 Waitlist acceptance rate: 15.99%	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,802 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,804 Waitlist acceptance rate: 37.57%
Santa Clara University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 3,312 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 197 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.95%
Sarah Lawrence College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 416 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 70 Waitlist acceptance rate: 16.83%
Scripps College	Applicants on the waitlist: 319 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 70 Waitlist acceptance rate: 21.94%	Applicants on the waitlist: 239 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 4 Waitlist acceptance rate: 1.67%
Skidmore College	Applicants on the waitlist: 675 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 35 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.19%	Applicants on the waitlist: 861 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 79 Waitlist acceptance rate: 9.18%
Smith College	Applicants on the waitlist: 741 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%	Applicants on the waitlist: 803 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 43 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.35%
Southern Methodist University	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,074 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 243 Waitlist acceptance rate: 22.63%	Applicants on the waitlist: 607 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 67 Waitlist acceptance rate: 11.04%
Stanford University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 414 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 25 Waitlist acceptance rate: 6.04%
Stony Brook University	Applicants on the waitlist: 5,191 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3,462 Waitlist acceptance rate: 66.69%	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,894 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 12 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.41%
Swarthmore College	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 14 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%
Texas Christian University	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,083 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 396 Waitlist acceptance rate: 36.57%	Applicants on the waitlist: 909 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 753 Waitlist acceptance rate: 82.84%
Texas A&M University	Waitlist data TBA	No waitlist
Texas Tech University	Waitlist data TBA	No waitlist
Trinity College	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,326 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 27 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.04%
Trinity University	Applicants on the waitlist: 681 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 51 Waitlist acceptance rate: 7.49%	Applicants on the waitlist: 655 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 105 Waitlist acceptance rate: 16.03%
Tufts University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 991 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 354 Waitlist acceptance rate: 35.72%
Tulane University	Applicants on the waitlist: 3,158 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 64 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.03%	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,290 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 432 Waitlist acceptance rate: 18.86%
University at Albany	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
University at Buffalo	Applicants on the waitlist: 857 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 106 Waitlist acceptance rate: 12.37%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,785 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 706 Waitlist acceptance rate: 39.55%
University of California, Berkeley	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 7,853 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 26 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.33%
University of California, Davis	Applicants on the waitlist: 9,747 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3,758 Waitlist acceptance rate: 38.56%	Applicants on the waitlist: 9,609 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 4,309 Waitlist acceptance rate: 44.84%
University of California, Irvine	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 6,259 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 6,259 Waitlist acceptance rate: 100.00%
University of California, Los Angeles	Applicants on the waitlist: 13,612 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,514 Waitlist acceptance rate: 11.12%	Applicants on the waitlist: 9,198 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,211 Waitlist acceptance rate: 13.17%
University of California, San Diego	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 19,156 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 4,539 Waitlist acceptance rate: 23.69%
University of California, Santa Barbara	Applicants on the waitlist: 18,022 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 9,603 Waitlist acceptance rate: 53.28%	Applicants on the waitlist: 10,641 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 8,715 Waitlist acceptance rate: 81.90%
University of California, Santa Cruz	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 10,111 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3,339 Waitlist acceptance rate: 33.02%
University of Central Florida	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,157 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 343 Waitlist acceptance rate: 15.90%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,300 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 50 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.85%
University of Chicago	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
University of Colorado – Boulder	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,158 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,007 Waitlist acceptance rate: 86.96%
University of Connecticut	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 642 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 28 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.36%
University of Denver	Applicants on the waitlist: 4 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%	Applicants on the waitlist: 152 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 29 Waitlist acceptance rate: 19.08%
University of Florida	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist began with the class of 2029 admission cycle
University of Georgia	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,871 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 157 Waitlist acceptance rate: 8.39%
University of Hawaii at Manoa	Waitlist data TBA	No waitlist
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,874 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.05%
University of Maryland, College Park	Applicants on the waitlist: 0 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%	Applicants on the waitlist: 0 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%
University of Massachusetts – Amherst	Applicants on the waitlist: 7,261 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 2,349 Waitlist acceptance rate: 32.35%	Applicants on the waitlist: 6,478 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,142 Waitlist acceptance rate: 17.63%
University of Miami	Applicants on the waitlist: 9,077 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 703 Waitlist acceptance rate: 7.74%	Applicants on the waitlist: 7,364 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 681 Waitlist acceptance rate: 9.25%
University of Michigan	Applicants on the waitlist: 18,435 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,663 Waitlist acceptance rate: 9.02%	Applicants on the waitlist: 18,793 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 973 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.18%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,084 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 295 Waitlist acceptance rate: 7.22%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Waitlist data TBA	No waitlist
University of Notre Dame	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,475 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 54 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.66%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,385 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 42 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.03%
University of Pennsylvania	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,288 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 66 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.88%
University of Pittsburgh	Applicants on the waitlist: 3,198 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 84 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.63%	Applicants on the waitlist: 4,338 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 3,754 Waitlist acceptance rate: 86.54%
University of Rhode Island	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 795 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 474 Waitlist acceptance rate: 59.62%
University of Richmond	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,016 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 102 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.06%	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,117 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 71 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.35%
University of Rochester	Waitlist data TBA	College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering: Applicants on the waitlist: 859 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 108 Waitlist acceptance rate: 12.57% Eastman School of Music: Applicants on the waitlist: 75 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 15 Waitlist acceptance rate: 20.00%
University of San Diego	Waitlist data not published	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,986 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,441 Waitlist acceptance rate: 72.56%
University of South Carolina	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,915 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 500 Waitlist acceptance rate: 17.15%
University of Southern California	Waitlist data TBA	No waitlist
University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Applicants on the waitlist: 3,516 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 134 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.81%	Applicants on the waitlist: 5,954 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 4,787 Waitlist acceptance rate: 80.40%
University of Texas – Austin	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist began with the class of 2029 admission cycle
University of Vermont	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,054 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 152 Waitlist acceptance rate: 14.42%	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,833 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 0 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.00%
University of Virginia	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 6,759 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 242 Waitlist acceptance rate: 3.58%
University of Washington – Seattle	Applicants on the waitlist: 8,350 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 2,252 Waitlist acceptance rate: 26.97%	Applicants on the waitlist: 7,983 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,596 Waitlist acceptance rate: 19.99%
University of Wisconsin – Madison	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 7,644 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 493 Waitlist acceptance rate: 6.45%
Vanderbilt University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: not published Applicants accepted from waitlist: 279 Waitlist acceptance rate: not published
Vassar College	Applicants on the waitlist: 510 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 30 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.88%	Applicants on the waitlist: 523 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 171 Waitlist acceptance rate: 32.70%
Villanova University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,938 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 563 Waitlist acceptance rate: 29.05%
Virginia Tech	Applicants on the waitlist: 13,380 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 4,295 Waitlist acceptance rate: 32.10%	Applicants on the waitlist: 11,067 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 1,524 Waitlist acceptance rate: 13.77%
Wake Forest University	Waitlist data TBA	Waitlist data not published
Washington and Lee University	Applicants on the waitlist: 604 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 2 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.33%	Applicants on the waitlist: 735 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 67 Waitlist acceptance rate: 9.12%
Washington University in St. Louis	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 2,658 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 201 Waitlist acceptance rate: 7.56%
Wellesley College	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,121 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 59 Waitlist acceptance rate: 5.26%	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,299 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 34 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.62%
Wesleyan University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,734 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 5 Waitlist acceptance rate: 0.29%
Williams College	Applicants on the waitlist: 850 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 25 Waitlist acceptance rate: 2.94%	Applicants on the waitlist: 858 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 113 Waitlist acceptance rate: 13.17%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 1,111 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 392 Waitlist acceptance rate: 35.28%
Yale University	Waitlist data TBA	Applicants on the waitlist: 565 Applicants accepted from waitlist: 23 Waitlist acceptance rate: 4.07%

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