Notre Dame Wait List Acceptance Rate

Wait List Acceptance Rate

For the Class of 2028, the University of Notre Dame offered 2,206 students a place on the waitlist, resulting in a low acceptance rate of 1.9%, with only 42 students admitted. This marks a significant decline from the previous year (2023), where 2,784 students were offered the waitlist and 90 were accepted, yielding an acceptance rate of 12.38%. Additionally, the Class of 2020 saw a much higher acceptance rate of 29.8%, with 530 students admitted from 1,778 offers. These historical trends indicate a tightening of waitlist acceptance rates over the years, reflecting an increasingly competitive admissions landscape at Notre Dame.