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:
Otherwise, feast your eyes on the most up to date admissions statistics for the Ivy Leagues and other prestigious institutions:
| College/University | Overall Acceptance Rate | Early Decision/Early Action Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst College | 9% | Declined to publish |
| Barnard College | 6.5% | 29% |
| Boston College | 15% | 28% |
| Boston University | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Bowdoin College | 8% | Declined to publish |
| Brown University | 5.1% | 13% |
| Colby College | 6% | Declined to publish |
| Columbia University | 3.9% | Declined to publish |
| Cornell | 6.9% | 33% |
| Dartmouth | 6.1% | 19% |
| Duke University | 6% | 16.5% |
| Emory University | 16.2% | 37.4% |
| Georgetown | 13% | Declined to publish |
| Georgia Tech | 16% | 40% for EA I (in-state applicants) 10% for EA II (out-of-state and international applicants) |
| Harvard | 3.4% | 7.5% |
| Johns Hopkins | 6% | 19.7% |
| Middlebury | 5.5% | 39% |
| MIT | 4.7% | 5.74% |
| New York University (NYU) | 8% | Declined to publish |
| Northwestern | 7% | 19-20% |
| Pomona | Declined to publish, likely around 7% | Declined to publish |
| Princeton University | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| Rice | 8% | 15.2% |
| Swarthmore | 7% | Declined to publish |
| Tufts | 10% | Declined to publish |
| Tulane | 13% | Declined to publish |
| University of Notre Dame | 12% | 15% |
| University of Pennsylvania | Declined to publish | Declined to publish |
| University of Southern California (USC) | 10% | 6% |
| University of Virginia (UVA) | Overall: 16.3% RD In-State: 13% RD Out-of-State: 8% | 16.6% EA 24% ED |
| Vanderbilt | 4.2% | Declined to publish |
| Wellesley College | 13% | Declined to publish |
| Williams | 9.8% | 27% |
| Yale | 4.3% | 10% |
