College Admissions Statistics Class of 2020: Early Decision & Early Action Acceptance Rates

Applying to College
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*Ranked Data +Yield
Class of 2020: Top 25 Universities

Total Applications:**
1.UC-Berkeley 82,558
2.Cornell 44,966
3.Stanford 43,977
4.Harvard 39,041
5.Penn 38,918
6.Carnegie-Mellon 37,247
7.Columbia 36,292
8.Northwestern 35,099
9.Brown 32,390
10.Vanderbilt 32,090
11.Duke 32,055
12.University of Chicago 31,411
13.Yale 31,349
14.Princeton 29,303
15.WUSTL 29,197
16.Johns Hopkins 27,117
17.Georgetown 27,029
18.Dartmouth 20,675
19.Tufts 20,222
20.Notre Dame 19,499
21.MIT 19,020
22.UVA 15,658
23.Rice 15,414
24.Caltech 6,856

RD acceptance rate:
1.Harvard RD 1119 out of 32,868 (3.4%)
2.Stanford RD 1318 out of 36,175 (3.6%)
3.Yale RD 1177 out of 26,793 (4.4%)
4.Princeton RD 1109 out of 25,074 (4.4%)
5.Columbia ED/RD 2193 out of 36,292 (6.0%)
6.Penn RD 2326 out of 33,156 (7.0%)
7.MIT RD 829 out of 11,253 (7.4%)
8.Brown RD 2250 out of 29,360 (7.7%)
9.Caltech EA/RD 541 out of 6856 (7.9%)
10.University of Chicago EA/RD 2482 out of 31,411 (7.9%)
11.Northwestern RD 2690 out of 32077 (8.4%)
12.Duke RD 2501 out of 28600 (8.7%)
13.Vanderbilt RD 2526 out of 28700 (8.8%)
14…Dartmouth RD 1682 out of 18748 (9.0%)
15.Johns Hopkins RD 2539 out of 25188 (10.1%)
16.Tufts RD 2168 out of 18152 (11.9%)(Yield, 1325=46.8%)
17.Cornell RD 4939 out of 40084 (12.3%)
18.UC Berkeley RD (OOS) 2734 out of 21213 (12.9%)
19.Notre Dame RD 1955 out of 14,178 (13.8%)
20.Carnegie Mellon University ED/RD ~5270 out of 37,247 (14.1%)
21.Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)
22.Georgetown RD 3276 out of 20002 (16.4%)
23.Rice University ED/RD 2581 out of 15414 (16.7%)
24.UC-Berkeley RD (IS) 8363 out of 45,773 (18.3%)
25.UVA RD (IS/OOS) 4166 out of 15658 (26.6%)

Early acceptance rate:
1.MIT EA 656 out of 7767 (8.4%)
2.Stanford REA 745 out of 7822 (9.5%)
3.Georgetown EA 892 out of 7027 (12.7%)
4.Harvard SCEA 918 out of 6173 (14.9%)
5.Yale SCEA 795 out of 4662 (17.1%)
6.Princeton SCEA 785 out of 4229 (18.6%)
7.Brown ED 669 out of 3030 (22.1%)
8.Penn ED 1335 out of 5762 (23.2%)
9.Duke ED 813 out of 3455 (23.5%)
10.Vanderbilt ED1/ED2 ~800 out of ~3390 (23.6%)
11.UVA EA (OOS) 2955 out of 12308 (24.0%)
12.Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
13.Cornell ED 1338 out of 4882 (27.4%)
14.Notre Dame EA 1610 out of 5321 (30.3%)
15.Johns Hopkins ED 584 out of 1929 (30.3%)
16.Tufts ED 663 out of 2070 (32%)
17.Northwestern ED 1061 out of 3022 (35.1%)
18.UVA EA (In-State) 2237 out of 4460 (50.2%)

Total Acceptance Rate:
1.Stanford 2063 out of 43,977 (4.7%)
2.Harvard 2037 out of 39,041 (5.2%)
3.Columbia 2193 out of 36,292 (6.0%)
4.Yale 1972 out of 31,349 (6.3%)
5.Princeton 1894 out of 29,303 (6.4%)
6.MIT 1485 out of 19,020 (7.8%)
7.Caltech 541 out of 6856 (7.9%)
8.University of Chicago 2482 out of 31,411 (7.9%)
9.Brown 2919 out of 32,390 (9.0%)
10.Penn 3661 out of 38,918 (9.4%)
11.Duke 3314 out of 32055 (10.3%)
12.Vanderbilt 3326 out of 32090 (10.4%)
13.Dartmouth 2176 out of 20,675 (10.5%)
14.Northwestern 3751 out of 35099 (10.7%)
15.Johns Hopkins 3123 out of 27117 (11.5%)
16.Cornell 6277 out of 44,966 (14.0%)
17.Tufts 2831 out of 20222 (14.0%)
18.Carnegie Mellon University 5270 out of 37,247 (14.1%)
19.UC-Berkeley 12,226 out of 82,558 (14.8%)
20.Georgetown 4168 out of 27029 (15.4%)
21.Washington University in St. Louis 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)
22.Rice University 2581 out of 15414 (16.7%)
23.Notre Dame 3565 out of 19499 (18.3%)
24.UVA 9358 out of 32426 (28.9%)

Yield (based on estimated class size):
1.Stanford 87.2% (1800)
2.Harvard 82.2% (1675)
3.MIT 75.4% (1120)
4.Princeton 69.2% (1310)
5.Yale 69.0% (1360)
6.Penn 66.8% (2445)
7.University of Chicago 66.4% (1650)
8.Columbia 63.8% (1400)
9.Brown 56.9% (1660)
10.Notre Dame 56.4% (2010)
11.Dartmouth 54.0% (1175)
12.Cornell 52.2% (3275)
13.Duke 51.4% (1705)
14.Northwestern 51.3% (1925)
15.UC-Berkeley 48.2% (5900)
16.Vanderbilt University 48.1% (1600)
17.Tufts University 46.8% (1325)
18.Caltech 45.3% (245)
19.Johns Hopkins University 41.6% (1300)
20.UVA 39.3% (3675)
21.Georgetown 37.9% (1580)
22.Rice 37.8% (975)
23.Washington University in St.Louis 37.0% (1750)
24.Carnegie Mellon University 28.5% (1503)

Excluding: Boston College, Emory, UCLA, University of Michigan, USC, University of Texas

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Harvard’s yield is 79.2 % https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
Stanford’s yield is 82.7% http://admission.stanford.edu/basics/selection/profile.html

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The Rice numbers posted are not correct

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What are the Rice numbers?

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https://futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Freshman_Profile.asp

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ACT middle 50, 33-35. Wow

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@iska123, I don’t have the data, but I would guess that Stanford recruits somewhat more athletes than Harvard. Given the high yield on recruited athletes, Stanford being arguably a greater athletic powerhouse than Harvard and, unlike Harvard and the other Ivies, offering athletic scholarships (which could result in a higher yield from admits to athletes), I wonder whether this accounts for some or all of the small difference in overall yield. Not that it matters - both schools have amazing yields…

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Updating the Rice data (thanks for posting @pantherkelly):

Harvard RD 1119 out of 32868 (3.4%)
Stanford RD 1318 out of 36175 (3.6%)
Yale RD 1177 out of 26793 (4.4%)
Princeton RD 1109 out of 25074 (4.4%) (1237 waitlisted=4.9%)(rej=90.6%)
Columbia ED/RD 2193 out of 36292 (6.0%)
Penn RD 2326 out of 33156 (7.0%)
MIT RD 829 out of 11253 (7.4%) (437 waitlisted)
Brown RD 2250 out of 29360 (7.7%)(~133 deferred accepted=7%)(~1000 waitlisted=3.4%)
Caltech EA/RD 541 out of 6856 (7.9%)
University of Chicago EA/RD 2482 out of 31,411 (7.9%)(yield=66%)
Pomona RD ~566 out of 7190 (~7.9%)
Northwestern RD 2690 out of 32077 (8.4%)
MIT EA 656 out of 7767 (8.4%) (4776 deferred=61.5%) (2175 rejected=28%)
Duke RD 2501 out of 28600 (8.7%) (49 deferred accepted=2.9%)
Vanderbilt RD 2526 out of 28700 (8.8%)
Olin College of Engineering RD 114 out of 1293 (8.8%)(Yield,85=74.6%)
Dartmouth RD 1682 out of 18748 (9.0%)
Claremont McKenna ED1/ED2/RD 594 out of 6342 (9.4%)
Stanford REA 745 out of 7822 (9.5%)
Johns Hopkins RD 2539 out of 25188 (10.1%)
Harvey Mudd RD 421 out of 3716 (11.3%)
Bowdoin RD 687 out of 5918 (11.6%)
Tufts RD 2168 out of 18152 (11.9%)(Yield, 1325=46.8%)
Amherst College RD 969 out of 7943 (12.2%)
Cornell RD 4939 out of 40084 (12.3%) (4572 waitlisted=11.4%)(rej=76.3%)
Swarthmore College ED/RD 963 out of 7,717 (12.5%)
Georgetown EA 892 out of 7027 (12.7%) (remainder deferred=87%)
UC Berkeley (OOS) 2734 out of 21213 (12.9%)
Pitzer College ED/RD (12.9%)
Notre Dame RD 1955 out of 14,178 (13.8%)
Carnegie Mellon University ED/RD ~5270 out of 37,247 (14.1%) (enrollment 1503=28.5% Yield)
Middlebury RD 1042 out of 7866 (14.2%)
Boston University ED2 ~245 out of 1721 (~14.2%)
Rice University RD 2447 out of 16744 (14.6%)
Harvard SCEA 918 out of 6173 (14.9%) (4673 def=75.7%) (464 rej=7.5%)
Williams College RD 960 out of 6397 (15.0%)
Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)
Barnard College ED/RD ~1131 out of 7071 (~16%)
Georgetown RD 3276 out of 20002 (16.4%)
USC RD 8920 out of 54100 (16.5%)
Harvey Mudd ED1/ED2 ~77 out of 464 (16.6%)
Yale SCEA 795 out of 4662 (17.1%) (53% def) (29% rej)
Colby College ED/RD ~1720 out of 9822 (17.5%)
Grinnell College ED/RD ~1326 out of 7368 (~18%)
UC Berkeley (IS) 8363 out of 45,773 (18.3%)
Wesleyan University ED1/ED2/RD 2200 out of 12026 (18.3%)
Princeton SCEA 785 out of 4229 (18.6%)
Middlebury College ED2 60 out of 318 (18.9%) (40 def=12.6%) (218 rej=68.6%)
Pomona ED1/ED2 ~177 out of 914 (19.4%)
Davidson College ED1/ED2/RD 1100 out of 5614 (19.6%)
Georgia Tech RD ~3206 out of 15,659 (~20.5%)
Haverford College ED/RD 871 out of 4067 (21.4%) (Yield, 352=40.4%)
Brown ED 669 out of 3030 (22.1%) (1905 def=62.9%) (456 rej=15.0%)
Carleton College ED1/ED2/RD ~1430 out of ~6500 (~22%) (200 ED acceptances)
Rice University ED 337 out of 1492 (22.6%)
Scripps RD ~632 out of 2743 (23%)
Penn ED 1335 out of 5762 (23.2%)
Duke ED 813 out of 3455 (23.5%) (1663 def=19.2%)
Vanderbilt ED1/ED2 ~800 out of ~3390 (23.6%)
UVA EA (OOS) 2955 out of 12308 (24.0%) (3005 def=24.4%) (6348 rej=51.6%)
Hamilton College ED/RD 1317 out of 5434 (24.2%)
Emory ED1/ED2/RD 4927 out of 19924 (24.7%)
Lehigh University ED/RD 3420 out of 13,408 (25.5%)
Skidmore College RD ~2200 out of 8608 (~25.6%)
Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
American University ED1/ED2/RD 4969 out of 19334 (25.7%)
Kenyon College ED/RD 1688 out of ~6400 (~26.4%)
Colgate University RD 2034 out of 7642 (26.6%)(Yield,775=32.2%)
Vassar College ED1/ED2/RD 1943 out of 7306 (26.6%)(ED=253)(Yield,644=33.1%)
UVA RD (IS/OOS) 4166 out of 15658 (26.6%)
Cornell ED 1338 out of 4882 (27.4%) (1153 def=23.6%) (2391 rej=49.0%)
Pitzer ED1/ED2 ~118 out of 423 (27.8%)
Wellesley ED/RD ~1368 out of 4888 (~28%)
Lafayette ED/RD 2291 out of 8121 (28.2%)
Wake Forest University ED/RD 4019 out of 13860 (29.0%) (Yield,1310=32.6%)
Georgia Tech EA 4424 out of 14861 (29.8%)
NYU RD 19000 out of 63702 (29.8%)
Bowdoin ED2 ~77 out of 256 (~30.1%)
Notre Dame EA 1610 out of 5321 (30.3%) (818 def=15.4%) (2893 rej=54.4%)
Johns Hopkins ED 584 out of 1929 (30.3%)
Boston University ED1/ED2 ~1050 out of 3421 (~30.7%)
Boston College EA ~2700 out of 8600 (~31.4%)
Tufts ED 663 out of 2070 (32%)
Bowdoin College ED1 207 out of 614 (33.7%)
UNC EA 6948 out of 19842 (35.0%)
Macalester College ED/RD 2081 out of 5946 (35%)
Northwestern ED 1061 out of 3022 (35.1%)
College of William & Mary ED/RD 5095 out of 14380 (35.4%)
Union College ED/RD 2400 out of 6637 (36.1%)(ED=228)(Yield,575=24%)
Smith College ED1/ED2/RD 1955 out of 5252 (37.2%)
Amherst College ED 180 out of 454 (39.6%)
Middlebury College ED1/ED2 398 out of 954 (41.7%)
George Washington RD 10101 out of 24168 (41.8%)
Williams College ED 246 out of 585 (42.1%)
University of Florida RD 13,624 out of 32,000+ (~42.5%)
Dickinson ED1/ED2/EA/RD 2636 out of 6171 (42.7%)
Fordham ED/EA/RD ~19,650 out of 44,697 (~44%)
Occidental College ED/RD ~2884 out of 6409 (~45%)
Davidson College ED 207 out of 458 (45.2%)
Boston University ED1 ~805 out of 1700 (~47.4%)
Scripps ED 113 out of 235 (47.9%)
University of Maryland EA/RD 14569 out of 30289 (48.1%)
Colgate University ED1/ED2 376 out of 752 (50%)(52 def=6.9%)(324 rej=43.1%)
UVA EA (In-State) 2237 out of 4460 (50.2%) (1060 def=23.8%) (1163 rej=26.1%)
University of Georgia ED 7500+ out of 14516 (51%+)
Middlebury College ED1 338 out of 636 (53.1%) (74 def=11.6%) (224 rej=35.2%)
George Washington ED 841 out of 1373 (61.3%)
Skidmore ED1/ED2 ~337 out of 542 (~62.1%)
University of Maine RD (OOS) 7803 out of 10,062 (77.5%)
University of Maine RD (In-state) 3600 out of 4134 (87.1%)

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Interesting facts about Rice Class of 2020:

It had a lower ED acceptance rate than peers Penn, Duke and Vanderbilt and trailed only the ED rates of Harvey Mudd, Pomona and Brown. So they are pretty stingy in their ED acceptances, especially relative to their RD acceptance rate. There is not much advantage to applying ED to Rice.

Their overall yield is 35.4%, and excluding the ED group, the yield is 27.2%

They did not have a single student from the United Kingdom in this year’s entering class but 64 from China.

https://futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Freshman_Profile.asp

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Based on the Stanford and Harvard Class of 2020 profiles linked above by @iska123 more than just the yield changed with their final numbers, but also the acceptance rates did as well. I believe that Stanford has about 50 additional acceptances reported, which raises their RD acceptance rate from 3.6% to 3.8% and Harvard has about 60 additional acceptances reported which raises their RD acceptance rate from 3.4% to 3.6%. I think this could be the waitlist acceptances being added in, but I’m not sure (n.b., the Harvard profile states that 75 students were accepted from the wait list this year).

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Rice is commonly looked at as a backup for the HYP crowd, and they may get a getter pool from the HYP waitlist than they get on their own. Also, Rice is trying to expand their applicant pool to beyond Texas. If most of their ED pool is from Texas, they may have little choice but to deny them.

The high number of Chinese foreign national students is disturbing.

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Updating this chart with latest Harvard and Stanford class profile data:

Ranked Data +Yield
Class of 2020: Top 25 Universities*

Total Applications:
1.UC-Berkeley 82,558
2.Cornell 44,966
3.Stanford 43,977
4.Harvard 39,041
5.Penn 38,918
6.Carnegie-Mellon 37,247
7.Columbia 36,292
8.Northwestern 35,099
9.Brown 32,390
10.Vanderbilt 32,090
11.Duke 32,055
12.University of Chicago 31,411
13.Yale 31,349
14.Princeton 29,303
15.WUSTL 29,197
16.Johns Hopkins 27,117
17.Georgetown 27,029
18.Dartmouth 20,675
19.Tufts 20,222
20.Notre Dame 19,499
21.MIT 19,020
22.UVA 15,658
23.Rice 15,414
24.Caltech 6,856

RD acceptance rate:
1.Harvard RD 1188 out of 32,868 (3.6%)
2.Stanford RD 1369 out of 36,175 (3.8%)
3.Yale RD 1177 out of 26,793 (4.4%)
4.Princeton RD 1109 out of 25,074 (4.4%)
5.Columbia ED/RD 2193 out of 36,292 (6.0%)
6.Penn RD 2326 out of 33,156 (7.0%)
7.MIT RD 829 out of 11,253 (7.4%)
8.Brown RD 2250 out of 29,360 (7.7%)
9.Caltech EA/RD 541 out of 6856 (7.9%)
10.University of Chicago EA/RD 2482 out of 31,411 (7.9%)
11.Northwestern RD 2690 out of 32077 (8.4%)
12.Duke RD 2501 out of 28600 (8.7%)
13.Vanderbilt RD 2526 out of 28700 (8.8%)
14…Dartmouth RD 1682 out of 18748 (9.0%)
15.Johns Hopkins RD 2539 out of 25188 (10.1%)
16.Tufts RD 2168 out of 18152 (11.9%)(Yield, 1325=46.8%)
17.Cornell RD 4939 out of 40084 (12.3%)
18.UC Berkeley RD (OOS) 2734 out of 21213 (12.9%)
19.Notre Dame RD 1955 out of 14,178 (13.8%)
20.Carnegie Mellon University ED/RD ~5270 out of 37,247 (14.1%)
21.Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)
22.Georgetown RD 3276 out of 20002 (16.4%)
23.Rice ED/RD 2581 out of 15414 (16.7%)
24.UC-Berkeley RD (IS) 8363 out of 45,773 (18.3%)
25.UVA RD (IS/OOS) 4166 out of 15658 (26.6%)

Early acceptance rate:
1.MIT EA 656 out of 7767 (8.4%)
2.Stanford REA 745 out of 7822 (9.5%)
3.Georgetown EA 892 out of 7027 (12.7%)
4.Harvard SCEA 918 out of 6173 (14.9%)
5.Yale SCEA 795 out of 4662 (17.1%)
6.Princeton SCEA 785 out of 4229 (18.6%)
7.Brown ED 669 out of 3030 (22.1%)
8.Penn ED 1335 out of 5762 (23.2%)
9.Duke ED 813 out of 3455 (23.5%)
10.Vanderbilt ED1/ED2 ~800 out of ~3390 (23.6%)
11.UVA EA (OOS) 2955 out of 12308 (24.0%)
12.Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
13.Cornell ED 1338 out of 4882 (27.4%)
14.Notre Dame EA 1610 out of 5321 (30.3%)
15.Johns Hopkins ED 584 out of 1929 (30.3%)
16.Tufts ED 663 out of 2070 (32%)
17.Northwestern ED 1061 out of 3022 (35.1%)
18.UVA EA (In-State) 2237 out of 4460 (50.2%)

Total Acceptance Rate:
1.Stanford 2114 out of 43,977 (4.8%)
2.Harvard 2106 out of 39,041 (5.4%)
3.Columbia 2193 out of 36,292 (6.0%)
4.Yale 1972 out of 31,349 (6.3%)
5.Princeton 1894 out of 29,303 (6.4%)
6.MIT 1485 out of 19,020 (7.8%)
7.Caltech 541 out of 6856 (7.9%)
8.University of Chicago 2482 out of 31,411 (7.9%)
9.Brown 2919 out of 32,390 (9.0%)
10.Penn 3661 out of 38,918 (9.4%)
11.Duke 3314 out of 32055 (10.3%)
12.Vanderbilt 3326 out of 32090 (10.4%)
13.Dartmouth 2176 out of 20,675 (10.5%)
14.Northwestern 3751 out of 35099 (10.7%)
15.Johns Hopkins 3123 out of 27117 (11.5%)
16.Cornell 6277 out of 44,966 (14.0%)
17.Tufts 2831 out of 20222 (14.0%)
18.Carnegie Mellon University 5270 out of 37,247 (14.1%)
19.UC-Berkeley 12,226 out of 82,558 (14.8%)
20.Georgetown 4168 out of 27029 (15.4%)
21.Washington University in St. Louis 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)
22.Rice 2581 out of 15414 (16.7%)
23.Notre Dame 3565 out of 19499 (18.3%)
24.UVA 9358 out of 32426 (28.9%)

Yield (based on estimated class size):
1.Stanford 82.8% (1750)
2.Harvard 79.2% (1667)
3.MIT 75.4% (1120)
4.Princeton 69.2% (1310)
5.Yale 69.0% (1360)
6.Penn 66.8% (2445)
7.University of Chicago 66.4% (1650)
8.Columbia 63.8% (1400)
9.Brown 56.9% (1660)
10.Notre Dame 56.4% (2010)
11.Dartmouth 54.0% (1175)
12.Cornell 52.2% (3275)
13.Duke 51.4% (1705)
14.Northwestern 51.3% (1925)
15.UC-Berkeley 48.2% (5900)
16.Vanderbilt University 48.1% (1600)
17.Tufts University 46.8% (1325)
18.Caltech 45.3% (245)
19.Johns Hopkins University 41.6% (1300)
20.UVA 39.3% (3675)
21.Georgetown 37.9% (1580)
22.Rice 37.8% (975)
23.Washington University in St.Louis 37.0% (1750)
24.Carnegie Mellon University 28.5% (1503)

Excluding: Boston College, Emory, UCLA, University of Michigan, USC, University of Texas

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With Rice…

Ranked Data +Yield
Class of 2020: Top 25 Universities*

Total Applications:
1.UC-Berkeley 82,558
2.Cornell 44,966
3.Stanford 43,977
4.Harvard 39,041
5.Penn 38,918
6.Carnegie-Mellon 37,247
7.Columbia 36,292
8.Northwestern 35,099
9.Brown 32,390
10.Vanderbilt 32,090
11.Duke 32,055
12.University of Chicago 31,411
13.Yale 31,349
14.Princeton 29,303
15.WUSTL 29,197
16.Johns Hopkins 27,117
17.Georgetown 27,029
18.Dartmouth 20,675
19.Tufts 20,222
20.Notre Dame 19,499
21.MIT 19,020
22.Rice 18,236
23.UVA 15,658
24.Caltech 6,856

RD acceptance rate:
1.Harvard RD 1188 out of 32,868 (3.6%)
2.Stanford RD 1369 out of 36,175 (3.8%)
3.Yale RD 1177 out of 26,793 (4.4%)
4.Princeton RD 1109 out of 25,074 (4.4%)
5.Columbia ED/RD 2193 out of 36,292 (6.0%)
6.Penn RD 2326 out of 33,156 (7.0%)
7.MIT RD 829 out of 11,253 (7.4%)
8.Brown RD 2250 out of 29,360 (7.7%)
9.Caltech EA/RD 541 out of 6856 (7.9%)
10.University of Chicago EA/RD 2482 out of 31,411 (7.9%)
11.Northwestern RD 2690 out of 32077 (8.4%)
12.Duke RD 2501 out of 28600 (8.7%)
13.Vanderbilt RD 2526 out of 28700 (8.8%)
14…Dartmouth RD 1682 out of 18748 (9.0%)
15.Johns Hopkins RD 2539 out of 25188 (10.1%)
16.Tufts RD 2168 out of 18152 (11.9%)(Yield, 1325=46.8%)
17.Cornell RD 4939 out of 40084 (12.3%)
18.UC Berkeley RD (OOS) 2734 out of 21213 (12.9%)
19.Notre Dame RD 1955 out of 14,178 (13.8%)
20.Carnegie Mellon University ED/RD ~5270 out of 37,247 (14.1%)
21.Rice RD 2447 out of 16,744 (14.6%)
22.Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)
23.Georgetown RD 3276 out of 20002 (16.4%)
24.UC-Berkeley RD (IS) 8363 out of 45,773 (18.3%)
25.UVA RD (IS/OOS) 4166 out of 15658 (26.6%)

Early acceptance rate:
1.MIT EA 656 out of 7767 (8.4%)
2.Stanford REA 745 out of 7822 (9.5%)
3.Georgetown EA 892 out of 7027 (12.7%)
4.Harvard SCEA 918 out of 6173 (14.9%)
5.Yale SCEA 795 out of 4662 (17.1%)
6.Princeton SCEA 785 out of 4229 (18.6%)
7.Brown ED 669 out of 3030 (22.1%)
8.Rice ED 337 out of 1492 (22.6%)
9.Penn ED 1335 out of 5762 (23.2%)
10.Duke ED 813 out of 3455 (23.5%)
11.Vanderbilt ED1/ED2 ~800 out of ~3390 (23.6%)
12.UVA EA (OOS) 2955 out of 12308 (24.0%)
13.Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
14.Cornell ED 1338 out of 4882 (27.4%)
15.Notre Dame EA 1610 out of 5321 (30.3%)
16.Johns Hopkins ED 584 out of 1929 (30.3%)
17.Tufts ED 663 out of 2070 (32%)
18.Northwestern ED 1061 out of 3022 (35.1%)
19.UVA EA (In-State) 2237 out of 4460 (50.2%)

Total Acceptance Rate:
1.Stanford 2114 out of 43,977 (4.8%)
2.Harvard 2106 out of 39,041 (5.4%)
3.Columbia 2193 out of 36,292 (6.0%)
4.Yale 1972 out of 31,349 (6.3%)
5.Princeton 1894 out of 29,303 (6.4%)
6.MIT 1485 out of 19,020 (7.8%)
7.Caltech 541 out of 6856 (7.9%)
8.University of Chicago 2482 out of 31,411 (7.9%)
9.Brown 2919 out of 32,390 (9.0%)
10.Penn 3661 out of 38,918 (9.4%)
11.Duke 3314 out of 32055 (10.3%)
12.Vanderbilt 3326 out of 32090 (10.4%)
13.Dartmouth 2176 out of 20,675 (10.5%)
14.Northwestern 3751 out of 35099 (10.7%)
15.Johns Hopkins 3123 out of 27117 (11.5%)
16.Cornell 6277 out of 44,966 (14.0%)
17.Tufts 2831 out of 20222 (14.0%)
18.Carnegie Mellon University 5270 out of 37,247 (14.1%)
19.UC-Berkeley 12,226 out of 82,558 (14.8%)
20.Rice 2784 out of 18,236 (15.3%)
21.Georgetown 4168 out of 27029 (15.4%)
22.Washington University in St. Louis 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)
23.Notre Dame 3565 out of 19499 (18.3%)
24.UVA 9358 out of 32426 (28.9%)

Yield (based on estimated class size):
1.Stanford 82.8% (1750)
2.Harvard 79.2% (1667)
3.MIT 75.4% (1120)
4.Princeton 69.2% (1310)
5.Yale 69.0% (1360)
6.Penn 66.8% (2445)
7.University of Chicago 66.4% (1650)
8.Columbia 63.8% (1400)
9.Brown 56.9% (1660)
10.Notre Dame 56.4% (2010)
11.Dartmouth 54.0% (1175)
12.Cornell 52.2% (3275)
13.Duke 51.4% (1705)
14.Northwestern 51.3% (1925)
15.UC-Berkeley 48.2% (5900)
16.Vanderbilt University 48.1% (1600)
17.Tufts University 46.8% (1325)
18.Caltech 45.3% (245)
19.Johns Hopkins University 41.6% (1300)
20.UVA 39.3% (3675)
21.Georgetown 37.9% (1580)
22.Washington University in St.Louis 37.0% (1750)
23.Rice 35.3% (983)
24.Carnegie Mellon University 28.5% (1503)

Excluding: Boston College, Emory, UCLA, University of Michigan, USC, University of Texas

454

@spayurpets - the Rice numbers you used are incorrect on the charts.

@Zinhead - Rice has expanded its school size by about 1,000 undergraduates and by design coming from outside of Texas. Compare Rice to any of its peers and you will find a very diverse student body.

455

There are only four schools that are in the top 10 in all five categories above (#Apps, RD%, ED%, Total%, Yield), two of them pretty obvious–Harvard and Stanford. The other two? Penn and Brown.

456

Yeah but why does total applicants matter independent of acceptance rates? Larger schools will have more applicants. That’s not an accomplishment. There are other schools that are in the top 10 in all the categories except total applicants that have consistently better acceptance rates and yields than Brown or Penn, like Princeton and Yale.

457

Yes you’re right its arbitrary, but in a general sense the application rate reflects the “popularity” of the school, especially when the schools are similar sizes, so Brown and Yale are probably valid comparatives. But the number is also very manipulable based on marketing, fee waivers, etc., so I wouldn’t read too much into it.

I would also note that Columbia would also probably come out somewhere in the top 10 in all five categories, if only they would break out their ED acceptance rate.

458

Based on the above, I’m not sure how Tufts isn’t listed as one of top cc colleges

459

Part of the issue for Tufts is that it falls between being a liberal arts college and a full fledged research university. It has graduate schools and PhD programs but it competes in athletics in NESCAC with other small LACs. Overall, I agree with you that they should be on one of CC’s lists of top schools and it is an odd omission.

460

I don’t quite understand how the “top 25” national universities were chosen. Why were “estimated” enrolled class sizes used for schools that have published their class size?