If you are reading this, you were probably waitlisted by Brown. Receiving a waitlist decision is a bummer, but it’s also a situation you can make the most off. Whereas a rejection is a closed door, being offered a spot on a waiting list is more like being stopped right before the threshold. You aren’t through, and you may never get through, but the chance is still there. The key, of course, is to not leave it up to chance.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Cornell 2025
If you were waitlisted by Cornell, you aren’t alone. Cornell offers a wild number of applicants, in 2023, a spot on the waitlist. Out of 8,282 students offered a spot on the waitlist in 2023, 6,166 accepted that offer. This is twice as many students as they expect to enroll in the first-year class. We can’t quite understand what the purpose is of having such a deep waitlist, but it is what Cornell has done for years. Ultimately, for Fall 2023, 362, or 5.9% of students on the waitlist were accepted.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Dartmouth College 2025
Dartmouth is the crunchy Ivy, they even have their own forest! And if you’re here, you’ve been waitlisted from Dartmouth and their forest, too. We know that you might be feeling super bummed about this, so we want you to take a few days to feel how you feel and come back ready to go. Because we have some action items for you.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Columbia University 2025
Columbia is a competitive school – you know this, of course. Last cycle, Columbia accepted 3.85% of students, down slightly from 3.9%. We only know this because of data published in the school paper, because Columbia does not fill out the Common Data Set (CDS). And because they don’t fill out the CDS, we also don’t know the exact numbers around their waitlist data. We do know, from looking at their peer schools and past experience, that their waitlist acceptance rate is probably around, or less than, 4%. Don’t fear, though, we’ve helped lots of students get off the waitlist and into Columbia.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Duke University 2025
If you’ve been waitlisted by Duke, it’s totally normal to have some feelings about it. You might be feeling disappointment, frustration, maybe even a little hope. All of that is completely fair and valid. Take some time to process; it’s important to be in the right mindset for what comes next. Once you’re ready, we’ll walk you through the steps to give yourself the best possible shot at getting off the waitlist. So take a day or two, regroup, and we’ll be here to guide you.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Stanford 2025
If you are on the receiving end of a waitlist offer by Stanford, you aren’t alone. We know that isn’t exactly reassuring, but with a first-year acceptance rate of only 4% nothing about Stanford is reassuring. But that doesn’t mean that you should give up all hope of moving into a dorm at Stanford in a few months. Before we get into what comes next, let’s look at the numbers.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Yale 2025
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Princeton 2025
If you were waitlisted by Princeton, you aren’t alone. Princeton is one of the most sought-after admissions in the country, with an acceptance rate, most recently, of only . Like most colleges, Princeton uses a waitlist as a way of ensuring the first-year class is filled. If their yield rate, or the number of accepted students who enroll, is lower than predicted, they can pull from the waitlist to fill the class. Princeton is in such high demand, though, that the waitlist isn’t heavily used. That doesn’t mean that they don’t use the waitlist at all, though.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Harvard University 2025
Harvard: there’s not much new we can say about this school. It’s maybe the most famous school in the world, and it’s also one of the most competitive. Last cycle, Harvard had a 3.6% acceptance rate, which is just so incredibly low. If you’ve been waitlisted by Harvard, we know you’re now worried about whatever the waitlist acceptance might be like. You also might feel a little rejected or sad, and that’s totally okay. Take a day or two to be sad, and then come right back here for some action items.
How to Transfer to Georgetown 2024-2025
For admission in the fall of 2023, Georgetown received 2,241 transfer applications and admitted 296 students, or just over . They admit transfers to all five undergraduate schools for fall admissions, and the spring term depending on availability, and require a minimum of 12 credits, completed as an enrolled college student (not high schooler taking college courses) to qualify as a potential transfer. Like most colleges, they also have a maximum number of credits that new students are permitted to bring with them as transfers: 60.
Ultimate Guide to Letters of Continued Interest (LOCI) 2025
Getting waitlisted or deferred from your dream school is hard. We know it’s hard! You feel rejected, but it’s this weird non-rejection rejection that can leave you feeling lost and confused. And while a lot of things in college admissions are totally out of your control, there is something you can do if you’ve been waitlisted or deferred to give yourself another chance. A letter of continued interest, sometimes known as a waitlist letter or deferral letter, is one of the few, actionable things you can control when admissions decisions seem so out of your control. It’s your only chance to make a good second impression, and we help students write them every single year.
Ultimate Guide to Getting Waitlisted 2025
Getting waitlisted is the ultimate limbo – it’s not not a rejection, but it’s not a full-on denial, either. And depending on your circumstances, you could be feeling everything from mild disappointment to full-on panic. Don’t get yourself into a tizzy just yet, because there are things you can do to give yourself a shot at getting off the waitlist and make sure that you have a plan in place for the next year.
How to Transfer to MIT 2024-2025
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is widely considered one of the best universities in the world, especially for STEM subjects. It is also one of the hardest universities in the world to get into. You may have experienced this, by being rejected when you applied as a senior in high school, or by simply deciding not to even apply because you didn’t think you even had a chance of getting in. Or it wasn’t even a decision to not apply and MIT wasn’t on your radar in high school. Whatever the reason, if you have decided that MIT is actually where you need to be you are, my friend, in for an uphill battle.
How to Transfer to Yale 2024-2025
If you are considering submitting a transfer application to Yale for the fall of 2025, the odds are not in your favor. For the fall of 2023, Yale received 1,479 applications for transfer. They accepted 18. That’s a acceptance rate. That is, objectively, absurd. Getting into Yale as a first-year is hard enough, only . Very few people get into Yale at first years, very few people choose to leave before graduating, opening up spots for transfer, and so there are nearly no spots available. So, how do you decide if you should apply to Yale as a transfer? And how do you know if you really might have a chance?
How to Transfer to Williams 2024-2025
Admissions to Williams is one of the most sought after acceptances among small liberal arts colleges. The same holds true for transfers, which they admit for fall enrollment only. In this post, we’ll break down what you need to know to write your strongest Williams transfer application. First, though, let’s talk numbers.
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How to Transfer to Dartmouth 2024-2025
Dartmouth is not known for accepting a ton of transfers. Actually, they’re known for the opposite. They accept very few. Very, very few. “In recent years,” , “Dartmouth has enrolled between a handful and two dozen new transfer students.” For students enrolling in the fall of 2023, Dartmouth received nearly 800 applications, but accepted only a dozen applicants. The transfer acceptance rate 1.6%.