So, Vassar College — home of the Brewers and a proud member of the Seven Sisters that led the charge towards co-education — has waitlisted you or your child to the Class of 2029. Does your road to elite college admission end here? Not if we at Ivy Coach have a say in it! There’s plenty you can do to optimize your odds of admission to this prestigious liberal arts college, but time is of the essence. Read on to discover the actions you can take right now to make it off the Vassar waitlist.

Vassar College’s Waitlist Acceptance Rate and Statistics

Before we discuss strategies for getting off the Vassar waitlist, let’s take a walk down memory lane and look through the waitlist acceptance rate for the past 23 admissions cycles, as reported by Vassar’s Common Data Set:

Vassar College Class Year	Number of Students Waitlisted to Vassar	Number of Students Who Chose to Join the Vassar Waitlist	Number of Students Accepted Off the Vassar Waitlist	Vassar Waitlist Acceptance Rate
Class of 2029	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Class of 2028	949	523	171	32.70%
Class of 2027	919	501	60	11.98%
Class of 2026	1,336	638	32	5.02%
Class of 2025	1,526	634	96	15.14%
Class of 2024	867	431	60	13.92%
Class of 2023	1,139	570	29	5.09%
Class of 2022	1,138	566	48	8.48%
Class of 2021	985	472	74	15.68%
Class of 2020	879	409	21	5.13%
Class of 2019	1,017	485	10	2.06%
Class of 2018	1,417	585	61	10.43%
Class of 2017	1,274	507	80	15.78%
Class of 2016	1,340	520	29	5.58%
Class of 2015	1,460	600	19	3.17%
Class of 2014	1,421	568	0	0.00%
Class of 2013	1,531	608	52	8.55%
Class of 2012	1,342	550	80	14.55%
Class of 2011	976	430	0	0.00%
Class of 2010	984	450	51	11.33%
Class of 2009	961	430	36	8.37%
Class of 2008	1,014	480	0	0.00%
Class of 2007	800	400	35	8.75%

Your Chances of Vassar Admission After Being Waitlisted

Perusing through this data reveals some good news and some not-so-good news. The good news is that Vassar has turned to its waitlist every single year since the Class of 2014 applied. Indeed, for admission to the Class of 2028, roughly one out of every three waitlisted applicants went on to earn admission! Those are certainly betting odds — and the Vassar waitlist acceptance rate has averaged 15.75% over the last five years.

However, it’s important to note that the waitlist acceptance for the Class of 2029 is unpredictable. This is because it’s solely determined by the yield rate, which is the proportion of admitted students who choose to enroll. While historical data suggests that Vassar has accepted waitlisted applicants every year, the final outcome is yet to be seen.

In the meantime, turn your focus to the many things you can do right now to help your case for admission. Let’s review:

How Ivy Coach Can Assist with Vassar College Admission

Ivy Coach’s two-step process to help get you off the waitlist and onto Vassar’s campus is tried and true, supported by over 30 years of success. That method is as follows:

1. Complete Ivy Coach’s PostMortem application review. We need to understand what went wrong the first time around. After all, how a student positions their case for admission after being waitlisted can’t be out of left field. A marine biology student can’t suddenly be a linguistics student. During this session, we’ll highlight what needs to change if the student hopes to earn a seat in the incoming class. We will help you discern how you should present to Vassar’s admissions office moving forward.
2. Submit a powerful Letter of Continued Interest. Most students correctly know that doing nothing is an unlikely strategy to earn admission off Vassar’s waitlist. Yet submitting just any kind of letter to the admissions office does not suffice. Most students are inclined to brag and update Vassar on all they’ve achieved in the few months since submitting their applications. But admissions officers hate this type of student. Our students’ letters, in a word, are weird, replete with Ivy Coach’s characteristic singular hooks, and devoid of any dreaded well-roundedness (the bane of an elite college applicant!).

Getting Started with Ivy Coach on Vassar College’s Waitlist

If you’re interested in optimizing your case for admission to Vassar College, fill out Ivy Coach’s complimentary consultation form and indicate that you’ve been waitlisted to Vassar. We’ll then be in touch to delineate our go-forward waitlist services.