<p>I'm wondering if there's any place that has a compilation of undergrad acceptance rates of colleges by year through a very long time. I would like to compare trends without actually having to do tedious research on every single college's website to create the data if possible. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>If there is not such a place with this data, what are the general trends? Acceptance rates typically always go done, right? But do they always? When and which colleges have decreased their selectivity significantly (if ever)?</p>
<p>I realize that’s where it will be. I was just wondering if some other research website has already compiled a list of the top 30 or so schools in the US with their acceptance rates. I’m not talking about just the last couple of years, I mean well back into the 70s at least if they were available. The common data set is usually only available for the last 5-10 years or even less on most college sites.</p>
<p>I think they typically go down unless there’s a reason for them to increase. Compare UCLA’s 2010 and 2011 acceptance rates: The former was 22.7; the latter was 25.5. What caused the significant increase? The need for funding from international students. But due to overenrollment in 2011, i believe, this led to the decrease in 2012, from 25.5, to 21.3.</p>
<p>Ya, I agree with that analysis. I was hoping there was a place where you can see this kind of data but for 20+ colleges side by side to compare.</p>
<p>You will want to wait until January to get the most recent CDSs. Right now, most universities will only have figures for the class of 2015, in some cases, 2014. By January, you should have figures for the class of 2017.</p>
<p>Here are admission rates 2010 through 2001 for about 100 schools. 2010 rates are on the left. Missing data is “0%”. From IPEDS US Dept of Ed
Why do you want to know this?</p>
<p>7% 7% 8% 9% 9% 9% 10% 10% 10% 11% Harvard University
7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 12% 13% 13% 13% 13% Stanford University
8% 9% 10% 9% 10% 10% 11% 13% 14% 16% Yale University
8% 7% 9% 11% 10% 13% 12% 12% 9% 14% Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
8% 10% 14% 12% 14% 13% 10% 10% 15% 16% United States Naval Academy
9% 10% 10% 10% 10% 11% 13% 10% 12% 12% Princeton University
9% 11% 14% 14% 14% 15% 16% 16% 17% 16% Brown University
10% 11% 11% 12% 12% 13% 13% 14% 14% 0% Columbia University in the City of New York
10% 11% 12% 12% 13% 14% 16% 16% 16% 17% Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11% 17% 18% 14% 19% 18% 13% 15% 17% 17% United States Air Force Academy
13% 15% 17% 17% 17% 20% 20% 17% 21% 15% California Institute of Technology
13% 13% 15% 16% 16% 17% 19% 18% 21% 21% Dartmouth College
13% 14% 16% 15% 16% 14% 13% 12% 15% 0% United States Military Academy
14% 18% 17% 16% 18% 21% 21% 20% 21% 22% University of Pennsylvania
15% 16% 16% 16% 18% 19% 20% 21% 23% 29% Pomona College
15% 16% 15% 18% 19% 19% 21% 18% 18% 19% Amherst College
16% 17% 16% 18% 19% 22% 25% 24% 24% 26% Swarthmore College
17% 16% 19% 16% 23% 20% 22% 31% 28% 29% Claremont McKenna College
17% 20% 21% 22% 22% 24% 23% 24% 27% 23% Middlebury College
17% 19% 22% 29% 29% 27% 27% 25% 24% 32% Berea College
17% 25% 8% 8% 14% 19% 17% 5% 6% 5% United States Coast Guard Academy
18% 20% 25% 33% 35% 35% 38% 46% 46% 46% Vanderbilt University
18% 19% 21% 21% 25% 27% 29% 31% 28% 26% Cornell University
19% 27% 28% 38% 40% 40% 40% 40% 42% 44% University of Chicago
19% 22% 23% 23% 24% 22% 21% 23% 26% 0% Duke University
19% 19% 17% 27% 27% 29% 30% 31% 31% 35% Washington and Lee University
19% 78% 72% 78% 70% 81% 84% 79% 82% 85% Alma College
20% 19% 19% 19% 22% 25% 24% 24% 25% 24% Bowdoin College
20% 19% 19% 21% 22% 21% 22% 23% 21% 21% Georgetown University
20% 20% 17% 19% 19% 19% 19% 21% 23% 24% Williams College
21% 73% 75% 76% 78% 79% 81% 79% 80% 19% Maryville College
21% 22% 22% 17% 21% 19% 22% 20% 24% 23% Washington University in St Louis
21% 22% 23% 25% 24% 25% 22% 24% 24% 23% Rice University
22% 21% 23% 24% 27% 25% 24% 24% 25% 26% University of California-Berkeley
22% 23% 24% 26% 27% 23% 24% 24% 27% 27% University of California-Los Angeles
22% 27% 27% 28% 28% 28% 28% 28% 28% 26% Wesleyan University
22% 28% 26% 26% 28% 35% 31% 31% 35% 34% Johns Hopkins University
23% 23% 26% 31% 33% 37% 36% 32% 40% 44% CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
23% 32% 31% 35% 34% 37% 30% 30% 39% 48% CUNY Lehman College
23% 32% 28% 28% 46% 36% 38% 40% 37% 34% Harvey Mudd College
24% 25% 25% 30% 30% 29% 29% 31% 31% 34% Vassar College
24% 36% 37% 38% 24% 22% 67% 66% 39% 64% University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus
24% 27% 25% 27% 27% 28% 27% 26% 27% 23% Tufts University
24% 24% 22% 25% 25% 27% 27% 30% 30% 34% University of Southern California
26% 20% 22% 26% 37% 39% 40% 50% 56% 54% Pitzer College
26% 28% 30% 34% 35% 36% 29% 27% 41% 53% CUNY Hunter College
26% 25% 27% 25% 26% 26% 29% 30% 32% 33% Haverford College
26% 26% 27% 44% 38% 45% 50% 55% 56% 61% Tulane University of Louisiana
27% 26% 27% 30% 30% 30% 33% 33% 34% 33% Northwestern University
28% 31% 28% 29% 26% 27% 27% 31% 34% 33% Barnard College
28% 35% 40% 45% 46% 45% 36% 33% 43% 64% CUNY Brooklyn College
29% 29% 27% 24% 27% 32% 30% 29% 34% 36% University of Notre Dame
29% 30% 28% 28% 33% 36% 34% 33% 35% 35% Hamilton College
29% 26% 26% 28% 30% 27% 27% 32% 34% 35% Davidson College
30% 27% 27% 32% 37% 39% 42% 42% 43% 45% Emory University
31% 34% 33% 31% 34% 34% 40% 39% 33% 36% Oberlin College
31% 34% 35% 35% 30% 28% 27% 25% 37% 28% Pepperdine University
31% 30% 27% 30% 32% 29% 29% 30% 35% 37% Carleton College
31% 27% 24% 29% 30% 31% 41% 34% 37% 33% SUNY at Purchase College
31% 30% 26% 27% 29% 31% 32% 31% 32% 34% Boston College
31% 37% 42% 47% 43% 45% 35% 34% 39% 59% CUNY City College
31% 30% 30% 30% 33% 34% 36% 38% 39% 39% Bucknell University
32% 34% 35% 34% 37% 36% 37% 35% 40% 37% University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
32% 34% 34% 34% 32% 31% 35% 34% 35% 37% College of William and Mary
32% 42% 47% 52% 54% 53% 49% 44% 71% 57% California State University-Long Beach
32% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Texas A & M University-Texarkana
32% 79% 35% 61% 61% 63% 80% 98% 55% 84% New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
32% 74% 52% 54% 39% 43% 46% 0% 0% 0% Soka University of America
33% 32% 37% 35% 37% 38% 39% 39% 39% 38% University of Virginia-Main Campus
33% 38% 40% 43% 43% 46% 40% 38% 45% 56% CUNY Queens College
33% 33% 40% 35% 46% 47% 78% 81% 0% 0% DigiPen Institute of Technology
33% 39% 32% 40% 46% 47% 40% 42% 41% 44% University of Richmond
33% 32% 24% 9% 28% 27% 33% 31% 34% 37% Colgate University
33% 35% 36% 36% 36% 34% 36% 40% 47% 43% Wellesley College
33% 36% 29% 28% 34% 39% 42% 38% 38% 31% Carnegie Mellon University
33% 40% 39% 43% 43% 43% 44% 45% 42% 41% SUNY at Binghamton
33% 63% 93% 93% 91% 96% 91% 94% 93% 96% Alaska Pacific University
34% 32% 26% 32% 38% 38% 44% 58% 57% 57% Colorado College
34% 71% 30% 68% 70% 33% 32% 94% 73% 76% North Park University
34% 39% 36% 36% 32% 44% 34% 40% 80% 46% State University of New York at New Paltz
34% 34% 31% 32% 33% 38% 37% 34% 33% 34% Colby College
34% 37% 39% 39% 40% 40% 22% 23% 0% 0% SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome
35% 38% 35% 48% 55% 66% 39% 53% 52% 69% Hardin-Simmons University
36% 40% 42% 46% 43% 39% 37% 41% 42% 43% University of California-San Diego
36% 31% 44% 44% 44% 47% 50% 54% 63% 61% San Diego State University
37% 37% 37% 38% 37% 38% 39% 40% 48% 48% George Washington University
37% 33% 45% 47% 17% 14% 16% 15% 19% 21% California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
37% 43% 43% 76% 92% 100% 100% 92% 92% 90% University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
38% 70% 39% 81% 77% 80% 78% 76% 76% 79% Woodbury University
38% 35% 35% 37% 41% 41% 43% 42% 49% 50% SUNY at Geneseo
38% 35% 33% 37% 39% 47% 39% 39% 49% 49% Spelman College
38% 42% 46% 48% 48% 65% 63% 62% 67% 76% Houston Baptist University
38% 33% 28% 32% 39% 41% 38% 40% 44% 48% Lehigh University
38% 41% 35% 39% 45% 47% 42% 61% 63% 70% Northeastern University
38% 39% 41% 40% 44% 46% 46% 47% 53% 49% University of Rochester
38% 42% 69% 59% 69% 56% 64% 70% 71% 78% University of the Pacific
38% 38% 32% 37% 36% 37% 35% 32% 32% 29% New York University
39% 41% 90% 93% 93% 92% 92% 50% 71% 71% Cardinal Stritch University
39% 33% 43% 43% 45% 46% 49% 54% 58% 64% Scripps College
39% 50% 46% 51% 76% 75% 74% 76% 73% 67% University of Tulsa</p>