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Matriculating Class 2031  ·  Bulletin No. 04  ·  September 2026

Class of 2030  ·  Waitlist archive  ·  16 reports

Did Caltech move its waitlist?

2 applicants reported coming off the Caltech waitlist during the Class of 2030 cycle. Here is when it happened, day by day.

2Came off the list
3AO contacts
0Extended
11Still waiting
16Total reports

Every figure is a count of individual, dated, anonymous reports from applicants. Not an institutional disclosure.

When it moved

The first reported movement at Caltech was May 4, 2026. The last was May 5, 2026. The busiest single week began May 4, 2026, with 5 reported events.

Caltech  ·  weekly volume2025-12-22 → 2026-05-29
DecJanFebMarAprMay
Week with an admit Week with AO contact Reports, no movement

What was reported

EventReportsShare
Still waiting, nothing yet1168.8%
Admissions officer called318.8%
Came off the waitlist212.5%

By division

DivisionReports
UG7

Where reporters applied from

RegionReports
US — Mid-Atlantic / DMV1
How this was collected 16 reports, submitted anonymously by applicants as their status changed, between 2025-12-22 and 2026-05-29. Provenance: 12 web, 4 scrape. Every row carries its own date and source tag. Reports flagged as recovered from local storage are excluded from movement timing because their submission time is unreliable. No personal information is collected or stored. Full methodology.

Other schools that cycle

Columbia10Georgetown14NYU11Vanderbilt21UChicago10Cornell12Princeton10Harvard4Penn4Stanford4UCLA15Brown2Michigan8Northwestern1

Number shown is reported admits off the waitlist.

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