Union College is one of those colleges that we at Ivy Coach like to tell our students about: one that encapsulates the liberal arts experience with great teaching, a close-knit community, and a fair degree of prestige. But if you’ve stumbled across this college admissions blog, chances are you or your child has been waitlisted to join the Union College Class of 2030. Is this setback tantamount to a rejection, or is there still a path forward for earning admission? You’ve come to the right place to find answers to this question and many more.

Union College’s Waitlist Acceptance Rates and Statistics

Below is Union College’s waitlist data for the Class of 2028 through the Class of 2017, compiled from publicly available Common Data Sets.

Union College Class Year	Number of Students Waitlisted to Union College	Number of Students Who Chose to Join Union College Waitlist	Number of Students Accepted Off Union College Waitlist	Union College Waitlist Acceptance Rate
Union College Class of 2030	Not Yet Available	Not Yet Available	Not Yet Available	Not Yet Available
Union College Class of 2029	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published
Union College Class of 2028	293	96	8	8.33%
Union College Class of 2027	441	206	22	10.68%
Union College Class of 2026	582	231	10	4.33%
Union College Class of 2025	541	218	15	6.88%
Union College Class of 2024	708	290	120	41.38%
Union College Class of 2023	753	328	104	31.71%
Union College Class of 2022	1,045	513	13	2.53%
Union College Class of 2021	1,066	523	39	7.46%
Union College Class of 2020	1,145	561	242	43.14%
Union College Class of 2019	1,167	626	64	10.22%
Union College Class of 2018	847	439	4	0.91%
Union College Class of 2017	1,059	519	62	11.95%

Your Chances of Admission to Union College After Being Waitlisted

It’s safe to say that the waitlist acceptance rate for Union College is highly unpredictable. Some years, it tallies up to less than 5%. Other years, well over 40% of those who are waitlisted go on to earn admission to this private college. There’s no telling how this year will play out in terms of the waitlist. But don’t let this total lack of clarity discourage you from doing all that you can to turn your place on the waitlist into an acceptance letter.

Here’s the clarity that we at Ivy Coach can provide: the waitlist acceptance rate variation from year to year can be explained by one little-known metric: yield rate, which is the proportion of admitted students who choose to enroll each year. The fewer students who matriculate each year, the more room there is in the incoming class for waitlisted applicants, who are a strong Plan B for admission officers who may have overestimated how many students would be interested in attending Union College next year. While there is very little you can do to predict the yield rate for the Class of 2030, you can ensure that you’ve made yourself highly appealing to Union College admission officers if and when they dip into the waitlist. Here’s how:

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

Follow the steps laid out below and you’ll have optimized your odds of making it onto Union College’s campus and off of the waitlist:

1. Complete Ivy Coach’s PostMortem application review. We will help you evaluate what went wrong and what you should do now that the worst has come to pass.
2. Submit a compelling Letter of Continued Interest. But be careful not to fill it with filler: brags, boasts, and trivial updates. These missteps have no place in Ivy Coach’s approach to this letter. Instead, we will inspire Union College admission officers to root for your case.

What Not To Do If You or Your Child Was Waitlisted by Union College

1. Dragging your feet on your Letter of Continued Interest. You can’t afford to wait now that it’s this late in the game. Act quickly and send in your letter as soon as possible to show Union College that you mean business.
2. Filling your letter with bragging, boasting, and updates. Examples include test scores earned, medals rewarded, and heaven forbid other college acceptances received. They don’t want to hear it!
3. Contacting the Union College admissions office. Your voicemails will go unanswered. Your questions will receive radio silence. And your personal petitions will only alienate you further!
4. Sending follow-up letters after submitting your Letter of Continued Interest. The more letters you send, the lower your impact will be. One is enough.
5. Conducting ridiculous waitlist campaigns. If you don’t know what we mean by this, consider yourself lucky. We’ve seen far too many inane actions taken by desperate families who are only hurting themselves.

Getting Started with Ivy Coach on Union Waitlist

If you’re interested in optimizing your case for admission off Union College’s waitlist to the Class of 2030 with the help of our team of former elite college admission officers, fill out Ivy Coach’s complimentary consultation form and indicate that Union College has waitlisted you. We’ll then be in touch with an outline of our services.