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Matriculating Class 2031  ·  Bulletin No. 04  ·  September 2026

Class of 2030  ·  Waitlist archive  ·  32 reports

Did Yale move its waitlist?

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

10Came off the list
3AO contacts
0Extended
19Still waiting
32Total 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 Yale was May 1, 2026. The last was May 18, 2026. The busiest single week began May 11, 2026, with 9 reported events.

Yale  ·  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 yet1959.4%
Came off the waitlist1031.3%
Admissions officer emailed26.3%
Admissions officer called13.1%

By division

DivisionReports
UG18

Where reporters applied from

RegionReports
International1
How this was collected 32 reports, submitted anonymously by applicants as their status changed, between 2025-12-22 and 2026-05-29. Provenance: 31 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

Columbia10Georgetown14NYU11Vanderbilt21UChicago10Cornell12Princeton10Harvard4Penn4Stanford4UCLA15Brown2Michigan8Northwestern1

Number shown is reported admits off the waitlist.

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