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Matriculating Class 2031  ·  Bulletin No. 04  ·  September 2026

Class of 2030  ·  Waitlist archive  ·  88 reports

Did Cornell move its waitlist?

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

12Came off the list
5AO contacts
0Extended
71Still waiting
88Total 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 Cornell was May 1, 2026. The last was May 21, 2026. The busiest single week began May 4, 2026, with 12 reported events.

Cornell  ·  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 yet7180.7%
Came off the waitlist1213.6%
Admissions officer emailed44.5%
Admissions officer called11.1%

By division

DivisionReports
ENG26
CAS14
CALS11
DYSON6
AAP2

Where reporters applied from

RegionReports
US — Midwest3
International2
US — Northeast1
US — Southwest1
How this was collected 88 reports, submitted anonymously by applicants as their status changed, between 2025-12-22 and 2026-05-29. Provenance: 80 web, 4 scrape, 3 organic, 1 salvage (inferred). 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

Columbia10Georgetown14NYU11Vanderbilt21UChicago10Princeton10Harvard4Penn4Stanford4UCLA15Brown2Michigan8Northwestern1UC San Diego2

Number shown is reported admits off the waitlist.

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