Each year, we gather the acceptance rates and admissions statistics for top schools across the country.
We have compiled the most important data in one place for your convenience.
If you’d like to visit the archives to see how admissions rates have changed over the years, you can explore here:
| College/University | Overall Acceptance Rate | Early Decision/Early Action Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst | 7% | Declined to publish |
| Barnard College | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Boston College | 12.6% | About 33% |
| Bowdoin | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Brown University | 5.65% | 18.4% |
| Colby | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Columbia | 4.29% | Declined to publish |
| Cornell | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Dartmouth | 6% | Declined to publish |
| Duke | 4.8% | 12.8% |
| Emory | 14.95% | 27.6% |
| Georgetown | 12% | 11% |
| Harvard | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| MIT | 4.52% | 5.98% |
| Northwestern | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Notre Dame | 9% | 12.9% |
| Pomona | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Princeton | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Rice | 7.8% | 13.2% |
| Swarthmore | 7.42% | Declined to publish |
| Tufts | 10.5% | Declined to publish |
| Tulane | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| University of Pennsylvania | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| University of Southern California | 10.2 - 10.7% | Declined to publish |
| University of Texas at Austin | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Williams College | 8.5% | 26.6% |
| Yale | 4.59% | 10.8% |
| College/University | Overall Acceptance Rate | Early Decision/Early Action Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst | 9% | Declined to publish |
| Barnard College | 7% | 40-45% |
| Bowdoin | 7% | 13.5% |
| Brown University | 5.2% | 14.4% |
| Colby | 6.6% | Declined to publish |
| Columbia University | 3.85% | Declined to publish |
| Cornell | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Dartmouth | 5.3% | 17% |
| Duke | 5.1% | 12.9% |
| Harvard | 3.59% | 8.74% |
| MIT | 4.5% | 5.3% |
| Northwestern | 7.5% | Declined to publish |
| Pomona | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Princeton University | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Rice | 7.5% | 15.3% |
| Swarthmore | 7.5% | Declined to publish |
| Tufts | 10% | Declined to publish |
| Tulane | 13% | Declined to publish |
| University of Notre Dame | 11% | 15% |
| University of Pennsylvania | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| University of Southern California | 9.2% | 7.2% |
| University of Texas at Austin | 11% (for students who were not automatically admitted) | Declined to publish |
| Williams College | 7.5% | 23.3% |
| Yale | 3.7% | 9% |
| College/University | Overall Acceptance Rate | Early Decision/Early Action Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Brown University | 5.1% | 13% |
| Columbia University | 3.9% | Declined to publish |
| Cornell | 6.9% | Declined to publish |
| Dartmouth | 6.1% | 19% |
| Duke University | TBA | 16.5% |
| Emory University | 16.2% | 37.4% |
| Harvard | 3.4% | 7.5% |
| Middlebury | TBA | 39% |
| MIT | 4.7% | 5.74% |
| Princeton University | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| University of Pennsylvania | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| University of Virginia (UVA) | Overall: 16.3% RD In-State: 13% RD Out-of-State: 8% | 16.6% EA 24% ED |
| Williams | 9.8% | 27% |
| Yale | 4.3% | 10% |
| College/University | Overall Acceptance Rate | Early Decision/Early Action Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst College | 7% | TBA |
| Barnard College | 8% | 29% |
| Boston College | 16.4% | 24% |
| Boston University | 14% | 26% |
| Bowdoin College | 8.9% | TBA |
| Brown University | 5% | 15% |
| Colby College | 7.5% | TBA |
| Columbia University | 3.73% | 10.3% |
| Cornell | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Dartmouth | 6.2% | 21% |
| Duke University | 6.2% | 21% |
| Emory University | 15.8% | 32% |
| Georgetown | 12% | 10% |
| Georgia Tech | 17% | 41.4% |
| Harvard | 3.19% | 7.9% |
| Johns Hopkins | 6.48% | 21% |
| Lehigh University | 36% | TBA |
| Middlebury | 15% | TBA |
| MIT | 3.96% | 4.7% |
| New York University (NYU) | 12.2% | TBA |
| Northwestern | 7% | TBA |
| Pomona | 6% | TBA |
| Princeton University | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Rice | 8.6% | 22% |
| Swarthmore | 6.95% | 24% |
| Tufts | 9% | TBA |
| Tulane | 10% | 10% |
| University of Notre Dame | 12.9% | TBA |
| University of Pennsylvania | Declined to publish | 15.6% |
| University of Southern California (USC) | TBA | TBA |
| University of Virginia (UVA) | 18.68% | 32% |
| Vanderbilt | TBA | 17.6% |
| Wellesley College | 13% | 39% |
| Williams | 8.51% | 31.3% |
| Yale | 4.4% | 10.9% |
| College/University | Overall Acceptance Rate | Early Decision/Early Action Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst College | 8% | 25% |
| Barnard College | 10% | 35% |
| Boston College | 18.9% | 39% |
| Boston University | 18.3% | 32% |
| Bowdoin College | 9.1% | 27% |
| Brown University | 5.4% | 15.97% |
| Colby College | 8% | 43% |
| Colgate University | 17.2% | 61% |
| Columbia University | 3.7% | 10% |
| Cornell | 9% | 27% |
| Dartmouth | 6.17% | 21.2% |
| Dickinson | 40% | 71% |
| Duke University | 5.8% | 24% |
| Emory University | 20% | 39% |
| Georgetown | 15% | 11% |
| Georgia Tech | 18% | 20.6% |
| Harvard | 3.4% | 7% |
| Johns Hopkins | 5% | 19% |
| Lehigh University | 45% | N/A |
| Macalester College | 31% | 53% |
| Middlebury | 15.7% | 43% |
| MIT | 4% | 7.4% |
| New York University (NYU) | 12.8% | 30% |
| Northeastern | 20% | 32% |
| Northwestern | 9% | 26% |
| Notre Dame | 14.6% | 21% |
| Pomona | 17.2% | 20% |
| Princeton University | 3.98% | 14% |
| Providence College | 47% | 54% |
| Rice | 9% | 23% |
| Swarthmore | 7% | 34% |
| Tufts | 11% | TBA |
| Tulane | 11% | 32% |
| University of Florida | 29% | N/A |
| University of Georgia | 39% | 38.7% |
| University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill | 21% | 25% |
| University of Pennsylvania | 2.5% | 15% |
| University of Southern California (USC) | 12% | N/A |
| University of Virginia (UVA) | 20.6% | 21.4% |
| Vanderbilt | 6.7% | 24% |
| Villanova | 25% | 36% |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 13% | 38% |
| Wellesley College | 16% | 45% |
| Williams | 8% | 40% |
| Yale | 4.6% | 10.5% |
