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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 4.5%. 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.
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.
For admission in the fall of 2023, Georgetown received 2,241 transfer applications and admitted 296 students, or just over 13%. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1.2% acceptance rate. That is, objectively, absurd. Getting into Yale as a first-year is hard enough, only 3.7%. 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?
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.
What, like it’s hard? Sorry to burst your bubble. Yes, transferring to Harvard is extremely hard. Harvard is an elite research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And it is easily one of the most famous schools in the world.
Getting into Yale is hard, as you’ve experienced. Yale had a 3.7% overall first-year acceptance rate in 2024 after receiving the largest pool of applications ever in Yale history — and 10% larger than the previous year.