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Matriculating Class 2031  ·  Bulletin No. 04  ·  September 2026

Class of 2030  ·  Waitlist archive  ·  127 reports

Did Columbia move its waitlist?

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

10Came off the list
2AO contacts
1Extended
112Still waiting
127Total 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 Columbia was May 2, 2026. The last was May 20, 2026. The busiest single week began May 4, 2026, with 5 reported events.

Columbia  ·  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 yet11288.2%
Came off the waitlist107.9%
Closed out21.6%
Waitlist extended10.8%
Admissions officer called10.8%
Admissions officer emailed10.8%

By division

DivisionReports
CC47
SEAS27
GS5

Where reporters applied from

RegionReports
International4
US — Mid-Atlantic / DMV1
US — California1
US — Southeast1
How this was collected 127 reports, submitted anonymously by applicants as their status changed, between 2025-12-22 and 2026-05-29. Provenance: 126 web, 1 organic. 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

Georgetown14NYU11Vanderbilt21UChicago10Cornell12Princeton10Harvard4Penn4Stanford4UCLA15Brown2Michigan8Northwestern1UC San Diego2

Number shown is reported admits off the waitlist.

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