You’re probably reading this because your child was waitlisted to the Middlebury College Class of 2029. You might be feeling a plethora of negative emotions at this moment,  but we’re here to insist that instead of throwing in the towel, you instead spring into action! That’s right, you can still do plenty to optimize your child’s odds of making it onto this gorgeous campus in the rolling hills of Vermont, but time is of the essence. Read on to discover the actions your child can take right now to get off the Middlebury waitlist!

Middlebury College’s Waitlist Acceptance Rate and Statistics

Combining nearly twenty years of data reported to the Common Data Set, we begin to understand how Middlebury admissions officers go about the waitlist process. Let’s take a look:

Middlebury College Class Year	Number of Students Waitlisted to Middlebury	Number of Students Who Chose to Join the Middlebury Waitlist	Number of Students Accepted Off the Middlebury Waitlist	Middlebury Waitlist Acceptance Rate
Class of 2029	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Class of 2028	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published
Class of 2027	2,778	2,734	36	1.32%
Class of 2026	2,259	2,215	12	0.54%
Class of 2025	1,742	1,716	2	0.12%
Class of 2024	1,338	534	104	19.48%
Class of 2023	1,576	584	111	19.01%
Class of 2022	1,215	914	24	2.63%
Class of 2021	1,259	540	21	3.89%
Class of 2020	1,316	561	7	1.25%
Class of 2019	1,304	530	33	6.23%
Class of 2018	1,525	663	1	0.15%
Class of 2017	1,705	757	0	0.00%
Class of 2016	1,679	611	78	12.77%
Class of 2015	2,114	1,006	20	1.99%
Class of 2014	1,958	865	134	15.49%
Class of 2013	1,527	756	42	5.56%
Class of 2012	1,812	831	49	5.90%
Class of 2011	1,231	603	0	0.00%
Class of 2010	1,200	646	54	8.36%
Class of 2009	950	579	38	6.56%

Over the last two decades of admissions cycles, the Middlebury waitlist acceptance rate has catapulted from extreme highs to extreme lows, like a deep sea diver with a thing for skydiving. Why? The one determining factor for how far any elite college dips into its waitlist is the yield rate, or the proportion of admitted students who end up matriculating. 

While no one can predict the Middlebury yield rate for the Class of 2029, rest assured that there are things you can do right now to ensure you put your best foot forward.

How to Improve Your Chances of Getting Off the Middlebury College Waitlist

So what is Ivy Coach’s game plan to help waitlisted students to Middlebury optimize their cases for admission? It all revolves around our secret sauce that turns our students into strategic powerhouses that instill faith in the admissions officers at their top schools. Our two-fold process for getting students off the waitlist and onto Middlebury’s campus is as follows:

1. Complete Ivy Coach’s PostMortem application review. Before crafting a wow letter that hopes to sway admissions officers to go to bat for students, we first need to understand how a student positioned their case for admission. Thus, we know what they should focus on and what they should avoid focusing on in their letter. Naturally, we want to lean into their strengths and avoid doubling down on mistakes.
2. Submit a powerful Letter of Continued Interest. This letter should contain no updates or not-so-humble brags. It’s a love letter to Middlebury that should be filled with genuine specifics about the institution and how students will contribute their singular hooks. And it must be submitted expediently — we’re talking within days of receiving your waitlist email!

Getting Started with Ivy Coach to Get Off the Middlebury Waitlist

If you’re interested in giving your child the best shot of turning their waitlist decision into an offer of admission to Middlebury’s incoming class, fill out Ivy Coach’s complimentary consultation form. We’ll be in touch to delineate our Middlebury waitlist service, which involves the help of a member of our team of former elite college admissions officers.