About acceptance rates of different undergraduate colleges

College Search & Selection
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  1. May I know the acceptance rates of “Early-Action” undergraduate “Computer Science” admission for UIUC and Georgia Tech?

  2. May I also know the acceptance rates of “Regular -Action” undergraduate “Computer Science” admission for UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, cal Tech, USC, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, Carnegir-Melon, UT Austin, Purdue, and Duke?

When I googled about acceptance rates, I get different acceptance rates for the same college, so I am confused…

Thank you.
Sincerely,

Jeishree (website name)

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Many schools will not give you acceptance rates by major so you need to do some digging.

Here is overall acceptance rates for the California UC’s based on in-state, out of state and International. Computer science is one of the most competitive majors at the UC’s so for UCLA example, the overall acceptance rate was 12.4% while for CS it hovers around 8% (2018 admission data) so expect CS to have lower admission rates.

Admission rates do not give you the full picture since the schools do not usually give you the GPA/test scores for the admitted students by major.

Admission Rates for California Applicants:
UCLA: 11.8%
UC Berkeley: 19.2%
UC Irvine: 21.3%
UC Santa Barbara: 26.9%
UC San Diego: 27.6%
UC Davis: 35.5%
UC Santa Cruz: 42.5%
UC Riverside: 55.8%
UC Merced: 77%

Admission Rates for Out-of-State Applicants (Domestic):
UCLA: 16.5%
UC Berkeley: 17.1%
UC Santa Barbara: 38.7%
UC Irvine: 44.2%
UC San Diego: 59.6%
UC Davis: 62.8%
UC Merced: 72.4%
UC Riverside: 73.9%
UC Santa Cruz: 85.5%

Admission Rates for International Applicants:
UCLA: 8.49%
UC Berkeley: 9.16%
UC San Diego: 29.7%
UC Santa Barbara: 34.6%
UC Irvine: 40.5%
UC Davis: 42.1%
UC Merced: 50.3%
UC Riverside: 69.5%
UC Santa Cruz: 74.5%

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Acceptance rates by major are hard to come by, and sometimes not particularly meaningful, depending on whether students are admitted by major or not.

Carnegie-Mellon is an exception, as CS is in its own school. The School of Computer Science had an overall acceptance rate of 5% last year.
https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics

As noted above, this is also significantly lower than the school’s overall rate of 17.1% (Yes, this overall average is higher than any individual program, but the game they play with the numbers minimally applies to SCS).

There was a claim on the Purdue forum of a 28% accept rate two years ago. I suspect that will be the highest of any of the RA schools you list - maybe by a large margin.

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Georgia Tech has an excellent reporting engine and webpage for its stats on admissions, enrollment, and major movement. I posted the link in the Ga Tech forum. I think it was in the 2024 thread.

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The GA Tech link is below.

https://lite.gatech.edu/

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Nice. Purdue has similar, but you need to log in to get beyond college-level data.

So 15.3% for CS vs. 20.5% for the entire university.

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If you are talking OOS then it drops to 12.7% for CS.