
For the application year 2024, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offered 2,794 applicants a spot on the wait list, with only 1 student ultimately accepted, resulting in a mere 0.04% acceptance rate. This marks a significant decline compared to the previous year, 2023, when the wait list acceptance rate was 1.8% with 56 admissions from 3,073 wait listed students. Historical data shows a trend of decreasing acceptances, notably falling from 24.19% in 2020 when 468 out of 1,935 were accepted, down to no acceptances in 2021. Overall, the trend indicates a tightening of admission opportunities for wait-listed candidates at the university.