Did Barnard College waitlist you or your child for admission to the Class of 2029? If so, your journey is far from over. As long as you act within days of the notification, there’s a significant chance you can turn this ship around and give you or your child a shot at making it onto this historic campus in the heart of New York City.

Barnard College Waitlist Acceptance Rate and Statistics

There’s a healthy amount of data to dive into regarding the waitlist acceptance rate at Barnard. Taking a glance back through over a decade of Common Data Sets, we start to get a picture of how the Class of 2029 can expect to do once decisions start rolling out. Let’s take a look:

Barnard College Class Year	Number of Students Waitlisted to Barnard	Number of Students Who Chose to Join the Barnard Waitlist	Number of Students Accepted Off the Barnard Waitlist	Barnard 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	2,144	1,260	173	13.73%
Class of 2026	2,524	1,597	66	4.13%
Class of 2025	2,612	1,904	104	5.46%
Class of 2024	2,096	Not Reported	258	N/A
Class of 2023	1,545	Not Reported	46	N/A
Class of 2022	1,608	Not Reported	11	N/A
Class of 2021	1,703	1,222	51	4.17%
Class of 2020	1,615	1,340	59	4.40%
Class of 2019	1,195	130	6	4.62%
Class of 2018	1,108	573	21	3.66%
Class of 2017	1,207	635	41	6.46%

Looking back over the Barnard waitlist acceptance rate through the years, one notices that it tends to hover around 5% or so — except for the Class of 2027. For the most recent admissions cycle for which we have data, Barnard admitted 13.73% of its waitlisted applicants. While no one can say for sure how well the Class of 2029 will fare, this spike in acceptance is still relatively reassuring.

It’s important to note that the number of waitlisted students that Barnard admissions officers choose to admit is entirely determined by the yield rate, a factor that is impossible to predict. Yield is simply the proportion of admitted students who choose to enroll. If every admitted student enrolled, Barnard would have no use for any of the applicants they are keeping on the back burner, a.k.a. the waitlisted applicants. Fortunately, there has not been a recent year where Barnard didn’t pull from its waitlist.

Your Chances of Admission to Barnard After Being Waitlisted With Ivy Coach’s Help

With a 62% success rate over three decades, Ivy Coach has a proven track record of getting students who come to us after getting waitlisted at Barnard off the waitlist and onto the campus of their dreams. Our success is the result of our unique approach that optimizes a student’s chances for admission after being placed in the in-between. It’s a two-step process that proceeds as follows:

1. Complete Ivy Coach’s PostMortem application review. First, we have to see what a student did right and what they did wrong. The narrative we help students present after being waitlisted must be consistent with the student’s story as presented in the application — just told in a much more powerful and endearing way. It can’t be out of left field!
2. Send in a powerful Letter of Continued Interest. Most students correctly know that they should submit a letter after being waitlisted, and most know they should do so expediently. Yet most students send the wrong kind of letter — a letter abounding in superfluous brags and updates. Ivy Coach’s Letters of Continued Interest contain no updates or brags. It’s an important reason our wonderfully weird love letters frequently work. We inspire admissions officers to want to go to bat for our students.

Getting Started With Ivy Coach to Get Off the Barnard Waitlist

If you’re interested in optimizing your child’s case for admission to Barnard’s Class of 2029, fill out our complimentary consultation form and indicate that Barnard has waitlisted your child. We’ll get back to you to outline Ivy Coach’s waitlist services, which are provided by our very own Jen Duran, a former Columbia University admissions officer.