Waitlist Statistics

Being waitlisted isn’t as crushing a result as being rejected, but it can feel like you’ve been exiled to admissions purgatory. It’s important to know if your waitlisted status means you still have a serious shot at being admitted to your first-choice university or if it’s the equivalent of a Powerball ticket. For example, at Middlebury, Brandeis, Georgetown, Tulane, and UPenn somewhere between zero and 20 students are likely to be plucked from the waitlist. On the other hand, Colorado College, Cornell, Lehigh, Williams, and William & Mary all took more than 60 students off of their waitlists. The following table indicates waitlist statistics at some of America’s most selective colleges and universities for the 2018-19 academic year. Data was collected from each institution’s 2018-19 Common Data Set (CDS).

Table Updated August 2019

Institution	Offered Waitlist	Accepting Waitlist Offer	Admitted from Waitlist
Georgetown University	2,596	1,754	16
George Washington University	4,963	2,081	14
George Mason University	1,889	1,770	187
Furman University	140	140	24
Franklin & Marshall College	2,106	0	0
Fordham University	9,215	2,423	68
Fairfield University	3,284	1,005	11
Emory University	4,983	2,660	0
Elon University	1,696	508	86
Eckerd College	79	19	0
Earlham College	131	58	24
Drexel University	1,215	1,215	9
Drew University	270	83	0
Dickinson College	644	216	9
Denison University	1,555	222	25
Dartmouth College	1,925	1,292	0
Cornell University	6,683	4,546	164
Cooper Union	182	182	10
Connecticut College	1,385	574	22
Colorado School of Mines	1,280	426	16
Colorado College	851	244	60
College of William and Mary	4,133	2,172	94
College of the Holy Cross	1,581	752	0
College of the Atlantic	25	9	9
Colgate University	1,788	1,007	0
Colby College	2,395	1,035	4
Clemson University	2,715	1,153	449
Clark University	710	316	5
Claremont McKenna College	1,037	651	25
Christopher Newport University	1,221	430	118
Chapman University	1,904	1,158	21
Centre College	160	25	7
Catholic University	323	81	17
Case Western Reserve University	9,908	9,908	0
Carnegie Mellon University	3,677	2,310	109
Carleton College	1,486	556	34
California Poly, San Luis Obispo	6,643	6,643	2,436
California Institute of Technology	634	512	6
Bucknell University	2,726	1,188	78
Bryn Mawr College	450	244	0
Brown University			100
Brandeis University	1,844	721	1
Boston University	5,441	3,446	1
Beloit College	69	57	15
Baylor University	5,644	1,581	791
Bates College	1,903	994	0
Barnard College	1,608	1,608	11
Appalachian State University	1,528	1,528	226
Amherst College	1,482	866	0
American University	4,598	760	188
Allegheny College	174	174	13
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	3,202	1,092	153
Williams College	1,772	653	76
Wheaton College (MA)	73	36	0
Wheaton College (IL)	257	77	19
West Chester University of Pennsylvania	535	120	92
Wesleyan University	1,965	1,098	0
Wellesley College	1,909	1,245	36
Washington University			31
Washington and Lee University	1,689	801	2
Washington & Jefferson College	30	13	2
Villanova University	6,321	2,856	47
Vassar College	1,138	566	48
Vanderbilt University			243
University of Virginia	5,972	3,588	13
University of Vermont	3,855	1,472	100
University of South Carolina	3,814	199	125
University of Scranton	1,006	195	93
University of San Francisco	1,474	595	2
University of San Diego	2,205	903	10
University of Richmond	3,653	1,243	28
University of Rhode Island	1,647	351	147
University of Puget Sound	30	9	1
University of Portland	1,615	410	135
University of Pittsburgh	1,664	576	24
University of Pennsylvania	3,535	2,561	9
University of Oregon	264	105	69
University of Oklahoma	1,983	1,983	234
University of Notre Dame	1,450	912	20
University of North Carolina at Wilmington	1,069	504	308
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	4,977	2,300	22
University of Michigan	14,783	6,000	415
University of Miami	10,405	4,041	30
University of Massachusetts Amherst	6,250	2,911	39
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	443	443	74
University of Mary Washington	773	123	36
University of Kentucky	484	484	45
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign	2,178	1,479	39
University of Georgia	1,257	704	32
University of Denver	492	264	1
University of Delaware	3,194	220	68
University of Connecticut, Storrs	2,027	1,249	502
University of Colorado Boulder	2,222	1,000	419
University of Central Florida	6,327	2,983	54
University of California, Santa Cruz	12,504	7,453	149
University of California, Santa Barbara	7,856	4,883	14
University of California, Riverside	11,058	6,695	1,143
University of California, Irvine	12,522	6,428	136
University of California, Davis	9,213	3,207	24
University of California, Berkeley	7,824	4,127	1,536
United States Naval Academy	216	167	13
Union College	1,045	516	13
Tulane University	10,384	3,111	2
Tufts University	1,957	723	8
Trinity University	876	455	7
Trinity College	1,827	1,103	11
The College of Wooster	594	125	17
The College of New Jersey	2,207	602	8
Texas Christian University	1,725	926	55
Temple University	3,571	1,435	1,283
Swarthmore College			40
SUNY, University at Buffalo	2,841	694	168
SUNY, Stony Brook University	3,828	1,796	80
SUNY, Geneseo	2,182	2,004	669
SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry	252	57	10
SUNY, Binghamton University	5,560	2,320	189
Stonehill College	960	257	53
Stanford University	870	681	30
St. Olaf College	611	448	51
St. Lawrence University	105	28	17
Southwestern University	138	36	3
Southern Methodist University	1,746	736	21
Smith College	923	458	68
Skidmore College	2,459	486	137
Siena College	423	61	22
Sewanee: University of the South	513	101	9
Scripps College	780	388	4
Santa Clara University	2,620	1,776	149
San Diego State University	2,853	1,276	46
Samford University	174	93	24
Saint Michael's College	27	5	2
Rollins College	171	75	16
Rice University	3,296	2,137	31
Rhodes College	1,253	306	42
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	5,769	3,845	3
Reed College	1,331	477	80
Ramapo College of New Jersey	918	348	221
Quinnipiac University	3,598	1,689	309
Purdue University	5,276	4,409	565
Providence College	3,154	643	6
Princeton University	1,125	844	0
Pomona College	826	527	67
Pitzer College	707	234	4
Pepperdine University	1,639	935	0
Penn State University	105	76	41
Ohio State University	5,296	1,221	117
Occidental College	1,095	568	8
Oberlin College	1,290	1,188	83
Northwestern University	2,861	1,859	24
North Carolina State University	4,133	4,127	20
New College of Florida	72	36	27
Muhlenberg College	726	265	68
Mount Holyoke College	598	313	0
Middlebury College	1,215	914	24
Miami University	1,527	3,311	72
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	460	383	0
Marquette University	775	775	198
Marist College	4,592	983	106
Macalester College	426	238	0
Loyola University Maryland	1,037	58	51
Loyola Marymount University	3,765	3,765	6
Lewis & Clark College	390	122	7
Lehigh University	7,737	3,358	69
Lawrence University	87	23	3
Lafayette College	2,332	948	2
Knox College	16	2	0
Kenyon College	1,857	907	4
Kalamazoo College	291	135	148
James Madison University	3,713	1,950	445
Ithaca College	838	308	96
Indiana University	2,835	467	427
Hope College	198	198	8
Hofstra University	143	45	24
Hobart and William Smith Colleges	545	196	14
Haverford College	1,349	613	11
Harvey Mudd College	509	327	0
Hampshire College	312	98	68
Hamilton College	1,406	759	28
Grinnell College	1,447	724	33
Goucher College	73	72	6
Gonzaga University	774	160	36
Gettysburg College	666	666	0
Georgia Institute of Technology	3,511	2,265	72
Georgia College	94	45	8