In another record-breaking year, the College received 8,091 first-year applications, an increase of nearly 5 percent over last year. It was the most selective year yet, with the College admitting a record-low 9.76 percent of applicants, or 790 students.
Another eight students in the incoming class were admitted last year and deferred, and 10 transfer students are expected from a pool of about 350 applicants. A Pomona College-Cambridge University Downing Scholar was admitted as well.
Pomona has historically admitted around 950 students. For the Class of 2018, the number was 942. The school is expected to be active in its wait list admissions.
Northwestern’s admissions rate hit a record low again this year with only 13 percent of applicants accepted.
The acceptance rate has dropped for the last six consecutive years. Ten years ago, 31 percent of applicants were admitted.
NU accepted 4,187 students for the class of 2019 out of the 32,124 that applied in both the early decision and regular decision rounds. Last year, NU received 33,688 applications and admitted 4,403 students.
The final acceptance rate for the class of 2018 was 13.1 percent.
For the third consecutive year, Duke’s regular decision acceptance rate is in the single digits—coming in at 9.4 percent for the Class of 2019.
At 7 p.m. today, the University released admissions decisions online to more than 28,000 applicants—and for 2,650 of them, the news was good. An additional 69 students who were deferred from the early decision process were accepted.
This year’s acceptance rate is up slightly from last year’s record low of 9 percent. The number of regular decision applications dipped slightly, from 29,300 last year to just more than 28,000 this year.
Last Friday the College mailed out acceptance letters to 1,009 out of 6,790 applicants for the Class of 2019, which puts this year’s acceptance rate at 14.9 percent, a slight increase from last year’s rate of 14.8 percent.
There were 145 fewer applicants than last year. That decrease was spread across each region of the United States other than New England, which had a small increase in applicants, although Maine applications were down by 10 percent
Williams College has extended offers of admission to 1,159 applicants for the Class of 2019. They were selected from a total applicant pool of 6,883, for an overall acceptance rate of 16.8 percent.
Of the admitted students, 567 are women and 592 are men. One hundred and two are international students representing 46 different nationalities. Among American students, 50 percent are students of color: 195 students are Asian American, 195 are black, 182 Latino, and 11 Native American. Twenty-one percent (246) are first-generation college students, and about 8 percent (96) have a parent who attended Williams.
For this year’s class, the total number of applications decreased very slightly to 30,853, with the number of in-state applicants increasing from 9,014 reported this time last year to 9,147 for the class of 2019. Last year at this time, UVa reported receiving 31,042 applications (this number tends to jump around a little) and made initial offers to 8,972 students.
The overall decline in numbers came from among out-of-state students who submitted 21,706 applications—down from 22,028 last year.
To gain control over class size, admissions decreased offers to 8,786—about two percent less than last year. Of these offers, 3,800 went to Virginians (3,903 last year), and 4,986 went to out-of-state students (5,069 last year). Overall, the initial admission rate decreased to about 28.5 percent.
Middlebury College extended offers of admission to 1,210 students in its regular decision round for the Class of 2019. That brought the total number of admitted students this year to 1,512, which includes 302 students who were admitted through the College’s early decision rounds in December and early February. In all, this year’s accepted students were selected from among 8,894 applicants, the second largest number in the College’s history and an 8.5 percent increase over last year. Overall this year, Middlebury admitted 17 percent of its applicants.
JH University has admitted 2,525 students to complete the Class of 2019, selected from a record applicant pool of 24,717. These students joined 540 future Blue Jays who had already enrolled at the university under the Early Decision admission plan.
The class not only breaks university records academically, but it is the most diverse class Johns Hopkins has ever admitted. Nearly 33 percent of the class identifies as underrepresented minorities, and the students come from all 50 states and 62 countries.
The 3,065 students admitted to the Class of 2019 were selected from the strongest applicant pool the university has ever seen. They include award-winning documentarians, founders of businesses and non-profits, patent holders, published authors, and creators of everything from plays, to video game soundtracks, to a self-heating ski boot.
Stanford admitted 2144 students, including 742 applicants who were accepted last December through the early action program, the Office of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid announced today.
Harvey Mudd received 4,119 applications for an entering class of just over 200. Admitted 13% of those who applied according to school admission website.
“Tufts received 19,064 undergraduate applications this year, a dead heat with last year’s record pool of 19,074 applications. It’s the second year in a row in which Tufts received more than 19,000 applications for the 1,310 places in our freshman class. The Class of ’19 will be born next week with a record-low acceptance rate of 16 percent.”
They admitted a total of 3050 students, including 530 through ED I (couldn’t find how many kids they accepted for EDII, but their goal was to admit 600 kids between both ED I and ED II).
Thousands of high school seniors from all 50 states and 80 countries received exciting news in their email inboxes on Friday afternoon after the George Washington University sent out its regular decision notifications telling students about their acceptances.
This year, the university admitted about 9,000 total students. Twelve percent of the students are international, and 34 percent are multicultural. In all, 19,780 students applied for admission to GW.
A record number of students have applied to Washington’s six public universities this year.
Those numbers include a growing group of applicants from low-income families who would qualify for a state scholarship through the College Bound program.
The Seattle Times reports (http://is.gd/c46vDY ) more than 75,000 students have applied to attend university in Washington state, mostly in-state students.
High school graduation classes have not grown, but college admissions officers say the increase in applications is most likely because students are applying to more places to make sure they get in somewhere.
Some schools saw bigger increases than others. The University of Washington, for example, had a 16 percent increase in applications. They have received more applications from in-state students, out-of-state and international.
Penn’s acceptance rate fell below 10 percent for the second year in a row.
Today at 5 p.m. EST, regular decision applicants to the Class of 2019 will be able to access their decisions via the online applicant portal. Of 37,267 students who applied to Penn in the early and regular rounds, 3,697 were admitted, leading to an overall acceptance rate of 9.9 percent. Last year’s overall acceptance rate was also 9.9 percent.
Penn enrolls a class of 2,420 students in the Class of 2019 across the College of Arts and Sciences, the Wharton School, Penn Engineering and the School of Nursing.
This year’s admissions cycle was unique in that applicants had an extra four days to submit application materials — the Admissions Office chose to extend the deadline in order to provide students with more time to enjoy their holidays. Previously, the deadline had only been extended in the case of extenuating circumstances, such as Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and Common Application glitches last year.
An all-time high of 54.4 percent of the Class of 2019 was filled with early decision applicants, making the regular decision round more competitive.