2026 College waitlist - post verified waitlist movement here (school and date please)

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It’s time to start the 2026 college waitlist movement thread! Please post confirmed information (from a student/family who got off the waitlist, from college counselors, adcomms, etc). Already this year, college counselors have reported WL movement (I will date them today as I just read them):
3/26 UNC reported to have offered movement last week (college counselor report)
3/26 Wash U WL offer (reported by college counselor)-

ETA: Someone please update the list here with all confirmed waitlist movement.

Wash U 3/26

UNC 3/26

Loyola Marymount (theater) 3/27

IU Kelley DA 4/3 (denials only)

Clemson summer start 4/6 and fall start 4/30

UT Austin school of communication 4/14

U Miami 4/15

Case Western 4/15

JMU 4/15

Richmond 4/15

U South Carolina 4/15 5/2

Tufts 4/15

Reed 4/15

Rutgers 4/15

U Chicago 4/15

Villanova 04/15

UT Civil Engineering 4/16

Pitt (4/16)

Penn State Business (4/16)

Oregon (4/16)

Minnesota 4/17

Middlebury 4/17

TCU (4/17)

Lehigh (4/18)

Stevens Institute (4/18)

UC Davis (4/20)

Wake Forest (4/20)

Ohio State 04/20

Tampa 04/20

Fordham 04/20

Binghamton 4/21 (counselor)

Grinnell (4/23)

BU 4/23

U Tampa Spring admit 4/23

Point Park 4/24

UCSB 4/24

UGA (per post later in this thread)

Purdue per counselor 4/27

Syracuse 4/28

Santa Clara (4/28?)

Colby 4/28

Cal Poly San Luis Obispbo 4/28

UGA 4/29

Virginia Tech 4/29

U Miami 4/29

Case Western 4/29 (counselor)

Wisconsin Chem E 4/29

Bentley 4/30

Barnard 4/30

Duke 4/30

UVA 5/1 (counselor)

Williams 5/1 (counselor)

UCLA 5/1

UNCSA 5/2

UIUC 5/4

UC Irvine 5/4

UC Berkeley 5/5

UC Santa Cruz 5/5

University of Washington 5/6

Smith College - 5/6

Michigan (spring admit) 5/6 and fall admit 5/8

Wash U economics 5/7

NYU - 5/7 ( Reddit posts)

Vandy - 5/7 ( Reddit Post)

Georgetown 5/9

RISD 5/11

Northeastern 5/12 (Reddit)

Wesleyan 5/13

Carnegie Mellon 5/14 (acting, musical theater closed 5/13)

MIT 5/14

Please post any updates HERE

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@Gumbymom please post UC WL updates here when you hear of them. Thanks!

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I’m not going to go so far as to call bull-puckey on this…but RD decisions were only released 5 days ago and the enrollment deadline is 5/1. If there’s a one-off, then there’s a whole lot more to the story that wouldn’t be applicable to everyone else on the waitlist.

Applicants also need to keep in mind that WashU pulls from WL by division, so someone getting in for architecture doesn’t mean arts and sciences is releasing anytime soon

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Someone stated that based on deposit algorithms that early WL movement is not surprising, and as for the Wash U report, it was from a college counselor. Unless they misunderstood what their student reported, I would take them at their word. And yes, it’s important to be mindful of how schools use their WL, BUT it is also important to be mindful that students CAN be, and ARE admitted from WLs every year (hence this thread). Always best to accept elsewhere first and then wait….

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I posted on one of the IU threads…the counselor network reporting IU Kelley DA waitlist movement yesterday (Apr 3), only denials being reported

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Clemson offered summer start to some students on the waitlist.

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Counselor reported waitlist movement at UT Austin school of communication.

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Counselor reported WL movement at U Miami, Wash U and UNC.

Miami student got significant merit money with the WL admission.

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More counselor reports:

Case Western

JMU

Richmond

Penn State (business)

U South Carolina

Tufts

JMU

Reed

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Rutgers (posted by a counselor and a cc’er here)

U Chicago is about to go to its list (reached out to students) but others have reported they they already have gone to their WL

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Has anyone been admitted off the WashU waitlist? If so what major and how did you find out? Thanks!

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Yes WashU has gone to the waitlist. WashU does not admit by major, it admits to academic divisions. I don’t know which academic visions have gone to the waitlist.

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Yes, look a few posts upthread. It’s noted.

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Another report: UT for civil engineering

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Minnesota and Middlebury have gone to their WL

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Going to start posting dates that they have been reported. Please add any that you receive (and dates) or can confirm. Apologies for any duplicates. Its only mid April- this is a lot of WL movement IMO:

Pitt (4/16)

Penn State Business (4/16)

TCU (4/17)

Lehigh (4/18)

Stevens Institute (4/18)

Oregon (4/16)

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I agree, seems like a lot of movement this early. Although I didn’t compare this to the last few years’ threads.

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Can anybody here confirm that Pitt has already gone to their waitlist? Only asking because my son applied in October and still has not received a decision. Application is marked as fully complete.

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Wait, what? They have not admitted or denied or waitlisted? That would in my mind require a call to the admissions office to see what’s going on. Per the post above a counselor reported that Pitt went to its waitlist on April 16.

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It’s a new round of admissions, the WD round!

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