Waitlist Watch is now part of The Highlighter — a broader publication for the college admissions cycle. Visit The Highlighter
theHighlighter
The Watch · Live Waitlist Movement · Class of 2030
Live
Add your cycle to the Record — unlock one waitlist free Anonymous, ~4 minutes. Trade your cycle (stats, applications, outcomes) for a free school unlock.
Class of 2030 · Anonymous tracker · Updated live

Is the
waitlist
moving?

A crowdsourced, anonymous record of when and how college waitlists are actually moving this cycle. No accounts. No PII. Just the structured signal — every AO email, every admit, every "still nothing" — pulled into one ledger.

Reddit threads on waitlist movement are scattered. Each one shows a fragment — a single AO email here, a single admit there. None of them give you a clean daily cadence.

This page does. People drop in 30-second anonymous data points (date, school, what happened, LOCI status), and the dashboard tells you "is the waitlist moving?" for any school based on the last 72 hours of reports. Even silence is data — reporting that you've heard nothing is one of the most useful things you can do.

What we don't ask for: name, email, GPA, scores, demographics, exact location. Nothing identifying. Just school within the university, date, event type, region, LOCI status, and (optional) whether you'd accept the offer if admitted.

total reports
schools with movement
🔥 AO actions today
The signal · Editor's brief Loading…

Reading this week's signal…

Pick a school · sorted by recent admissions activity

Most recent movement at top. New events promote a school instantly. Click any row to open its dashboard.

Admit migration · where decliners go instead

Signal map

Each row is a school. Each dot is an AO event. Most-active schools at the top. Hover any dot for details.

Admit AO email AO call Other (reject / extended) Dashed line = today
For professionals

Live waitlist data for the people whose business is admissions.

Counselors managing rosters of seniors. Consulting firms tracking trends across cycles. Researchers and journalists who need primary data, not anecdotes. Every report, exported nightly. API access. Historical archives back to launch.

Counselor
$199/year
  • Full report archive — every school, all-time
  • Daily CSV export of new submissions
  • Per-school momentum alerts via email
  • Free unlocks across every school you track

For independent college counselors and IECs working with high-school seniors directly.

Live