The Waitlist Dashboard

Law schools admit more applicants than they have seats, because not every admit enrolls. How many do — the school's yield — isn't known until deposit deadlines in April or May. When yield comes in low, the school pulls from the waitlist. When it comes in high, no one comes off.

Most pulls happen between mid-May and late July, but the window varies by school. Some clear in May; others wait until August; some years a school pulls no one at all. The dashboard's job is to tell you where a specific school tends to sit inside that range.

A timeline of the date range when this school has historically pulled from the waitlist, pooled over the last three complete cycles. The shaded band spans the 10th to 90th percentile of waitlist→accepted events; the line inside is the median. Today's date is marked on the same axis.

Where today's marker sits relative to the band is the read. Before the band, the school hasn't usually started yet. Inside, you're in the typical window. Past it, most historical movement has already happened — though late pulls do occur.

The current pool, split into four buckets: live (no deposit anywhere, no higher offer in hand), holding a higher-ranked offer, deposited at a lower-ranked school, and deposited at a peer or higher-ranked school. Applicants who deposited elsewhere aren't automatically gone — someone holding a lower-ranked deposit may still flip if pulled — but they're less likely to take a pull than the live bucket.

Underneath the bar is the LSAT and GPA profile of just the live bucket: the group the school is competing for right now. If you're logged in with stats on your profile, your numbers appear on the same axis as the enrolled class band beneath it.

The LSAT and GPA range of applicants this school has pulled off its waitlist in recent cycles, drawn as a whisker-and-box against its most recent ABA-reported class medians. Shaded band is the 25th to 75th percentile, line is the median, whiskers reach to the lowest and highest values pulled.

The comparison to the class band is the point. If past waitlist pulls sit below the class band, the school has used its waitlist to round out the soft edge of the class. If they sit above, the school has used it to protect or boost its medians.

One caveat the page repeats: the percentiles use LSAT and GPA values currently on file for each past waitlist admit, not snapshots from the moment they were admitted. Retakes after admission drift the bands slightly upward relative to what the school saw at decision time.

Waitlist Pull Pace traces this school's current cycle against its own historical waitlist-pull curve. A flat line means pulls haven't started yet; a line climbing toward the historical one means they're underway. A badge reads ahead, behind, or on pace at today's day of cycle.

Seats Freeing Up counts admits at this school who have deposited elsewhere so far this cycle, compared to the same day of cycle in prior years. Each one is a seat the school can fill from the waitlist. Above the baseline means more reason for the school to work its list; below means less.

Direct Admit Pace is the same shape as waitlist pull pace, but for admits the school issued without going through the waitlist first. When that curve flattens, the school has finished offering direct seats; any remaining class-building happens through the waitlist.

Whether you come off this school's waitlist. Nothing on the page is a probability. The panels describe a school's historical patterns and the makeup of its current pool; what you make of them is your call.

All figures come from LSD.Law users who self-reported their statuses. Not every admit logs a final decision, so absolute counts are undercounts. The bias is consistent across cycles, which is why the dashboard leans on year-over-year comparisons and percentile shapes rather than raw totals. When a school has fewer than ten pulls across the last three cycles, panels fall back to a "not enough history" message rather than chart noise.