If you’ve been waitlisted at one of your preferred schools, here’s a list of 2023 waitlist data for some of the most popular private and public schools, along with notification dates and the most recent status where applicable.

Our sample of waitlist statistics from 100 private and public institutions paints the following picture:

The number of students admitted from the waitlist rose 97 percent year over year from 22,223 in 2019 to 43,867 in 2021

On average, 29 percent of students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted in 2020, up from 18 percent in 2020
33 percent of the schools admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the waitlist last year (vs. 48 percent in 2019)
17 percent of the schools admitted 5 percent or less (vs. 29 percent in 2019)

3 percent admitted no one (vs. 8 percent in 2019)

These results come as no surprise given the uncertainty brought on by the pandemic last cycle. That said, we strongly caution against assuming a similar level of waitlist activity this cycle as much of this uncertainty is now behind us and most schools are resuming normal operations.

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Class of 2027 Regular Notification Dates

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Institution	Official Notification Date (2022)	Updated Notification Date (2022)	Actual Notification Date (2021)
American University	by 4/1	3/16 4pm ET	3/17 3pm ET
Amherst College	around 3/20	3/18 6:21pm ET	3/29 6:21pm ET
Babson College	mid-March	3/18	3/19 afternoon ET
Bard College	end of March		3/16
Barnard College	late March		3/31 7pm ET
Bates College	by 4/1	3/12	3/13 by 12pm ET
Boston College	by 4/1		3/25 after 6pm ET
Boston University	late March to early April	3/26	3/27
Bowdoin College	mid-March	3/18 7pm ET	3/19 7pm ET
Brandeis University	4/1		3/18 evening ET
Brigham Young University – Provo	2/21
Brown University	end of March	3/31 7pm ET	4/6 7pm ET
Bryn Mawr College	by 4/1		3/22 4pm ET
Bucknell University	by 4/1	3/16 9pm ET	3/17 9pm ET
California Institute of Technology	mid-March	3/12 6:24am PT	3/6
Carleton College	by 4/1	3/18 8pm CT	3/18 8pm CT
Carnegie Mellon University	by 4/1		3/27 after 9am ET
Case Western Reserve University	3/19
Chapman University	mid-March	3/9	3/10
Claremont McKenna College	by 4/1	3/24 5pm PT	3/25 after 5pm PT
Clark University	late March	3/16 afternoon ET	3/20
Colby College	by 4/1	3/18	3/19 5pm ET
Colgate University	by 4/1	3/23 8:13pm ET	3/24 8:13pm ET
College of the Holy Cross	mid-March	3/19	3/20
College of William and Mary	by 4/1		3/30
Colorado College	mid-March	3/14 4pm MT	3/16 4pm MT
Columbia University	early April		4/6 7pm ET
Connecticut College	late March	3/19	3/20 10am ET
Cornell University	early April	3/31 7pm ET	4/6 7pm ET
Dartmouth College	early April		4/6 7pm ET
Davidson College	by 4/1	3/26 10am ET	3/27 10am ET
Denison University	mid-March	3/10 6:31pm ET	3/5
Dickinson College	late March	3/10	3/15 3pm ET
Drexel University	by 4/1	3/17	3/19
Duke University	late March/early April		4/5 7pm ET
Emerson College	4/1	3/15	3/16
Emory University (Emory)	by 4/1		3/24 6pm ET
Emory University (Oxford)	by 4/1		3/24 6pm ET
Fordham University	by 4/1	3/15 afternoon ET	3/15
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	late March		3/26
Franklin and Marshall	by 4/1	3/9	3/16 7pm ET
George Washington University	early April		3/26
Georgetown University	4/1		3/26
Georgia Institute of Technology	mid-March	3/5 12pm ET (GA), 3/25 7pm ET (non-GA)	3/13 12pm ET
Gettysburg College	late March	3/14 5pm ET	3/16 5pm ET
Grinnell College	late March/early April	3/11	3/12 4pm CT
Hamilton College	late March	3/25 8pm ET	3/18 8pm ET
Harvard University	late March		4/6 7pm ET
Harvey Mudd College	4/1	3/17 6pm PT	3/18 6pm PT
Haverford College	early April	3/18 7pm ET	3/19 7pm ET
James Madison University	mid-late March	3/9	3/11
Johns Hopkins University	by 4/1	3/18 3pm ET	3/19 3pm ET
Kenyon College	mid-March		3/17
Lafayette College	mid-late March	3/24 4pm ET	mailed 3/19, online 3/24 4pm ET
Lehigh University	late March		3/25
Loyola Marymount University	early April	3/4	3/9
Macalester College	3/27	3/14	3/21
Middlebury College	late March	3/26 8am ET	3/27
Miami University – Oxford	3/15		3/22
MIT	mid-March	3/14 6:20pm ET	3/14 6:28pm ET
Mount Holyoke College	late March	3/22 7pm ET	3/23 evening ET
Muhlenberg College	mid-March	3/9 4pm ET	3/10 4pm ET
New York University	4/1		3/31
North Carolina State	3/30		3/26
Northeastern University	by 4/1	3/16 evening ET	3/17
Northwestern University	late March		3/26
Oberlin College	4/1	3/19	3/20
Occidental College	4/1		3/25 5pm PT
Ohio State University – Columbus		3/18
Pepperdine University	4/1	3/18
Pitzer College	by 4/1	3/18 4pm PT	3/19 4pm PT
Pomona College	by 4/1	3/18 5pm PT	3/25 5pm PT
Princeton University	April		4/6 7pm ET
Providence College	by 4/1	3/14 evening ET	3/15
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	3/12		3/6 evening ET
Rice University	by 4/1		3/30 5pm CT
Saint Michaels College	by 4/1	2/27
Santa Clara University	late March	3/16	by 3/18
Sarah Lawrence College	late March/early April		3/17
Scripps College	by 4/1	3/19	3/22
Sewanee: The University of the South	early March	3/2 6pm CT	3/3 7pm CT
Skidmore College	mid-March	3/16	3/15
Smith College	late March		3/26
Southern Methodist University	mid-March	3/14 evening CT
Stanford University	by 4/1		4/9
Swarthmore College	mid-March	3/18 7pm ET	3/19 7pm ET
Syracuse University	late March	3/18	3/19
Texas Christian University		3/16
Trinity College	late March	3/14 evening ET	3/11 evening ET
Tufts University	by 4/1	3/29 7pm PT	3/30 7pm ET
Tulane University	by 4/1		3/31 3pm CT
Union College	3/19		3/20
University of California – Berkeley	end of March	3/24	3/25
University of California – Davis	mid-March	3/11	mid-late March
University of California – Irvine	by 3/31	3/18	3/12
University of California – Los Angeles	late March	3/18	3/19
University of California – Merced	begins 3/1		3/18 4pm PT
University of California – Riverside	begins 3/1
University of California – San Diego	by 3/31	3/18	3/19
University of California – Santa Barbara	mid-March	3/22 3pm PT	3/16
University of California – Santa Cruz	3/15-3/31
University of Chicago	late March	3/11 4pm CT	3/12 late afternoon CT
University of Connecticut – Storrs	begins 3/1	2/25 1pm ET
University of Florida	late February	2/25 6pm ET	2/26 6pm ET
University of Georgia	mid-March	3/18 late afternoon ET	3/19
University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign	by 3/1	2/25 4pm CT	2/19
University of Maryland – College Park	by 4/1		3/31
University of Massachusetts – Amherst	first week of March to mid-April	begins 2/9	mid-February to early March
University of Miami	4/1		3/26
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor	early April
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill	by 3/31		3/26
University of Notre Dame	late March	3/17 6:42pm ET	3/26 6:42pm ET
University of Pennsylvania	April		4/6 7pm ET
University of Richmond	4/1	3/18 7pm ET	3/12
University of Rochester	4/1	3/18	3/23 evening ET
University of Southern California	by 4/1	3/25	3/30
University of Texas – Austin	by 3/1
University of Vermont	early March	3/4 5pm ET
University of Virginia	by 4/1	3/18 eve ET	3/25 evening ET
University of Wisconsin – Madison	by 3/31
Vanderbilt University	late March		3/29 after 5pm CT
Vassar College	late March		3/31 close of business ET
Villanova University	by 4/1	3/18 evening ET	3/25 after 4pm ET
Virginia Polytechnic Institute	early March	3/4 5pm ET	3/5
Wake Forest University	by 4/1		3/26
Washington and Lee University	4/1		3/31 8pm ET
Washington University in St. Louis	4/1	3/24	3/24 afternoon CT
Wellesley College	late March	3/19 10am ET	3/20
Wesleyan University	late March		3/27
Wheaton College – MA	by 3/31
Whitman College	early March	3/3 3pm PT	2/25 3pm PT
Williams College	early April	3/18 evening ET	3/25 pm ET
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	by 4/1		3/29 5pm ET
Yale University	by 4/1		4/6 7pm ET

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