Were you recently waitlisted at Tufts? You’re probably wondering: Is this just Tufts’ way of letting me down easy or do I still have a shot? Well, take a deep breath. If you play your cards right, you still have a shot at going Jumbo. 

Tufts Waitlist Acceptance Rates and Statistics

First, let’s look at the numbers. The table below shows Tufts’ waitlist data for the Class of 2028 through the Class of 2016. We gathered these figures directly from Tufts’ self-reporting to The Common Data Set. 

Tufts University Class Year	Number of Students Waitlisted to Tufts	Number of Students Who Chose to Join Tufts Waitlist	Number of Students Accepted Off Tufts Waitlist	Tufts Waitlist Acceptance Rate
Tufts Class of 2029	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Tufts Class of 2028	2,565	1,324	200	15%
Tufts Class of 2027	2,664	1,328	183	13.80%
Tufts Class of 2026	2,664	1,328	183	13.78%
Tufts Class of 2025	2,579	1,264	0	0%
Tufts Class of 2024	2,136	1,017	222	21.83%
Tufts Class of 2023	1,441	524	84	16.03%
Tufts Class of 2022	1,957	723	8	1.11%
Tufts Class of 2021	1,504	635	0	0%

Your Chances of Admission to Tufts After Being Waitlisted

In the past 12 years, Tufts has published its waitlist data for nine different years. Of those nine years, Tufts turned to its waitlist six times: for the Classes of 2028, 2027, 2026, 2024, 2023, and 2022. The waitlist acceptance rate for those six years averages out at 13.6% 

If we look at only the most recent three admissions cycles, we find a slightly higher waitlist admissions rate of 14%. This is higher than Tufts’ overall admissions rate of 10%! 

So, in brief, all hope is not lost. But you can’t just cross your fingers and toes and wish upon a star. You have to take action to make that 14% work in your favor! How you approach Tufts after getting waitlisted makes all the difference in the world. 

Your Chances of Admission to Tufts After Being Waitlisted with Ivy Coach’s Help

Over the past 30 years, Ivy Coach has developed a stellar track record at helping students turn a waitlist letter into an acceptance letter: around 40% of students who have first come to Ivy Coach after being waitlisted by an elite university have gone on to earn admission to that institution, compared to a 10% acceptance rate for the average waitlisted applicant. 

How do we do it? No, it’s not alchemy! It’s something even better than that: our tried and true method of optimizing a student’s shot at admission after being placed on the waitlist. And believe it or not, it all boils down to two steps: 

1. Complete Ivy Coach’s PostMortem application review. We must see what a student did right and wrong in their application. The narrative we help craft can’t be brand new. Instead, it needs to line up with the story and personality conveyed in The Common Application and Tufts supplement — just told much more convincingly. 
2. Submit a compelling Letter of Continued Interest. You probably already know that you must write and send a letter after being placed on the waitlist to ultimately earn admission. But do you know what you should write in that letter? Hint: it’s not brags or updates about what you’ve been up to in the few months since you applied. 

Getting Started with Ivy Coach on Tufts Waitlist

If you want the waitlist to be more than a prolonged dead end, fill out Ivy Coach’s complimentary consultation form and check that you’ve been waitlisted by Tufts. We’ll be in touch soon thereafter — we know how important timing is and that your letter needs to go to Tufts immediately.