The Heard Back Tracker

Heard Back shows, for each school, what share of applicants who submitted in a given window have received some kind of response. Use it to compare your wait against others who applied around the same time.

The tracker is a heatmap. Rows are submission windows (ten-day buckets, three per month); columns are schools. Each cell shows the percentage of applicants in that window who have heard something back. Darker cells mean a higher response rate. Hover a cell for the raw count (e.g. 42/60). Cells with fewer than three applications show N/A.

Find your submission window at each school you care about. If 75% of October submissions at School X have heard and you haven't, you're in the lagging 25% — worth noting, not catastrophic. If only 20% have heard, you're with the majority; the committee hasn't reached your group yet. Schools move at different paces, so the same October row will look different across columns.

"Heard something" counts any committee action: accept, waitlist, reject, or hold. It doesn't distinguish between outcomes. Silence in your row does not mean you were rejected — rejects land in the same bucket as everything else. It means the adcom hasn't opened your file yet.

Two modes toggle what counts. All Responses (default) includes accepts, rejects, waitlists, and holds — the right view mid-cycle. Decisions counts only terminal outcomes (accept or reject) and is the right view by spring, once waitlists resolve. The denominator either way is applications sent to that school in that window, counted per application: one person applying to twelve schools shows up in twelve columns.

Pair it with the cycle tracker for aggregate pace against prior cycles, and recent decisions for the live feed of individual outcomes.