Waitlist

If you have not yet accepted your offer to remain on the waitlist through your application status portal, you must do so in order to be considered for admission.

Once you click “I accept my offer to remain on the waitlist”, you will have the option to share more about your interest in Mount Holyoke, tell us whether or not you are interested in the spring semester (see below), and submit additional documents. New information must be submitted via your application status portal, and you can change your waitlist preferences or add new materials through May 1.

Yes, you may update the information in your portal at any time, but your initial submission must be prior to the deadline indicated in your applicant portal. Simply login, make the changes, and click “update”.

If you are interested in the possibility of taking a gap semester and enrolling for spring semester in January 2026, please indicate this when you accept your place on the waitlist using the online reply link in your portal.

By the response deadline, we anticipate several hundred students will have accepted our offer to remain on the waitlist.

The waitlist is not ranked. We will be heavily influenced by your intent to enroll, your original application, and additional supporting materials. Depending on our financial aid commitments to date, the need for financial aid may be a factor in our decision.

Every year is different. In the past, we have made as many as 50 offers or as few as none. Beginning in late April, we check our enrollment numbers day to day to be able to reach out to students on the waitlist as soon as we have information to share; we may also ask students to re-confirm their interest in remaining on our waitlist at that time. We will continue to monitor the class size and may make offers from our waitlist into the summer as necessary.

We realize that students must make a deposit to an institution that has admitted them by May. We make every effort to notify our waitlist-active students about the status of their application no later than the end of April, but this is not always possible. Waitlist movement often extends later into the spring or summer. This means that if you have not received notification from us by May 1, you should pay an enrollment deposit to another institution to which you have been admitted.

When we have updates regarding your waitlist status, we will email you. You do not need to check your application status portal unless we notify you by email that an update has been posted. Additionally, should we decide to close our waitlist, we will notify you by email. If you have not received any information from us about the waitlist, it means there are no further details available at that time.

Mount Holyoke remains committed to meeting 100% of the demonstrated need of our admitted students, including students admitted from the waitlist. So yes, you will be eligible to receive financial aid if you are admitted.

Supplemental documents may be submitted if you feel they would provide new information to your application. In the past, helpful materials have included an updated transcript, test scores, or a statement of interest in Mount Holyoke. Additional materials must be submitted via the waitlist interest form to be considered; please do not send the same items via email. These items will not be reviewed unless space in the class becomes available.

While we are not offering interviews for students on our waitlist, you can certainly register for an in-person campus tour or a virtual tour via the Guidebook app.