College Admissions Statistics Class of 2021: Early and Regular Decision Acceptance Rates

[Chrchill]

Why is ED2 a suckers bet. You are thereby 100% committed to attend. Colleges love that. clearly should enhance chances vis a vis RD.

[spayurpets]

@chrchill re “Sucker’s bet”

That’s the problem with BU’s ED2, it clearly has longer odds than RD even though the student is committing to attend. The unspoken “deal” with ED is that that it is mutually beneficial–the college has certainty on yield and the student gets a slight edge in gaining admissions. With BU, there is no edge at all and arguably there’s a disadvantage. RD had a 25% acceptance rate this year, and ED2 had a 13.4% acceptance rate. I don’t know how anyone can use that data to explain why it is to a student’s advantage to apply ED2 to BU.

[spayurpets]

You’d have to come up with some pretty far-out explanation of why BU’s ED2 pool of applicants is weaker than their general pool to rationalize why they have such a low acceptance rate. If you look at other schools that have ED2 programs, they go as one might expect–ED easiest, ED2 easier, RD hardest. Hamilton College is a good example from 2020, ED1=45% accepted, ED2=35% accepted, RD=24% accepted. This is BU from this year: ED1=43%, ED2=13%, RD=25%. Last year was similar: 47%/14%/29%. so they can’t claim that this year was anomalous.

[tintininamerica]

Any data on Harvey Mudd’s RD yet? The notices are out.

[tintininamerica]

Cal Berkley?

[jellybeanj]

just out of curiosity, does anyone know northeastern’s ea and calpoly’s?

[Mqy201]

Fordham RD, Stony Brook RD, Binghamton EA & RD? Thanks! This is a great thread!

[ajh333]

anyone have UC acceptance results?

[Notknot77098]

Here is info on Boston College. International apps and California apps down.

http://bcheights.com/2017/03/20/9200-admitted-class-2021/

[spayurpets]

Thanks.

Acceptance Rate for Class of 2021 Holds Steady at 32 Percent

Boston College accepted 9,200 students out of 28,500 applications for admission to the Class of 2021, for an acceptance rate of 32 percent, Director of Undergraduate Admission John Mahoney said in an interview Monday. Last year’s rate was also 32 percent.

The accepted number combines the early action admission pool with the regular decision pool. In December, 2,900 students were admitted early action out of 9,000 applicants, for an early action acceptance rate of 33 percent.

Students accepted to the class of 2021 had a mean SAT of over 1400 on the new 1600-point scale, and a mean ACT of 33. SAT scores ranged from 1360 in the 25th percentile to 1480 in the 75th percentile, and ACT scores ranged from 32 in the 25th percentile to 34 in the 75th percentile.

The 28,500 total applications were down 1 percent from last year’s total. Early action applications, however, increased this year from 8,500 in 2015 to 9,000 in 2016, a 5 percent rise.

Students were admitted from 50 states and 61 foreign countries. Thirty-four percent of accepted students identify as AHANA—32 percent of the Class of 2020 identifies as AHANA or are international students of color. Mahoney said AHANA applications have also increased.

This year’s numbers were largely similar to past years.

“When you’re even in applications, as we are, there aren’t really powerful trends to report upon,” Mahoney said.

That said, a couple of numbers stood out. The Connell School of Nursing, for example, saw a 7 percent rise in applicants this year. Mahoney said CSON’s level of selectivity has increased in the last couple of years. Men still make up about 1 percent of applicants to CSON, Mahoney said.

“It’s one of those professions that is unjustifiably stereotyped as a female profession, so we’re just not seeing the volume still,” Mahoney said.

Geographically, the applicant breakdown stayed mostly the same. Applications from California, however, decreased 7 percent this year, although Mahoney said the state has been seeing a dip in high school graduates. International applicants are down 6 percent, which Mahoney attributed to a decline in applicants from China, which colleges and universities are seeing around the U.S.

BC accepted both the new SAT and the old, 2400-point version, but Mahoney said a relatively small percentage of applicants opted to submit the old version. There was some talk that raw scores might be a little higher on the 1400-point scale, but Mahoney said BC didn’t really see that come true.

“We didn’t really see [the new version] as a radical shift in terms of using the tests as part of the evaluation,” he said.

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[spayurpets]

Adding BC:

MIT RD 781 out of 11,853 (6.6%)
MIT EA 657 out of 8394 (7.8%) (def=69.7%, rej=22.4%)
Pomona ED/RD ~742 out of 9046 (8.2%)
Johns Hopkins RD 2542 out of 24,644 (10.3%)
Georgetown EA 931 out of 7822 (11.9%)(def=88.1%)
Boston University ED2 ~274 out of 2039 (~13.4%)
Harvard SCEA 938 out of 6473 (14.5%)
Georgetown RD ~3,219 out of 21,459 (15%)(Yield,1600=38.6%)
Princeton SCEA 770 out of 5003 (15.4%)
Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD ~4875 out of 30,464 (16%)
Yale SCEA 871 out of 5086 (17.1%) (def=52.7%, rej=28.6%)
Georgia Tech RD (IS/OOS) 2917 out of 15,769 (18.5%)
Rice ED 329 out of 1604 (20.5%)
Brown ED 695 out of 3170 (21.9%)(def=60%, rej=18%)
Georgia Tech EA (OOS) ~2300 out of 11,515 (~21%)
Penn ED 1354 out of 6147 (22.0%)
UVA EA (OOS) 3339 out of 14,968 (22.3%)
Vanderbilt ED1/ED2 __ out of __ (23.6%)
Carnegie Mellon ED 330 out of 1375 (24.0%)
Notre Dame REA 1470 out of 6020 (24.4%) (893 def=14.8%)
Duke ED 861 out of 3516 (24.5%)(def,671=19.1%)
Boston University RD 14,013 out of 56,634 (24.7%)(Yield,3400=22.4%)
Cornell ED ~1379 out of 5384 (25.6%)(def=20.9%, rej=53.5%)
Northwestern ED ~963 out of 3736 (~25.7%)
Dartmouth ED 555 out of 1999 (27.8%)
Georgia Tech EA (IS/OOS) 4380 out of 15,715 (27.9%)
Boston University ED1/ED2 ~1190 out of 4181 (~28.5%)
UVA EA (IS/OOS) 5914 out of 20,446 (28.9%)(def,5458=26.7%; rej,9074=44.4%)
Tulane EA 6480 out of 22,256 (29.1%)
Tufts ED1/ED2 ~675 out of 2310 (~29.2%)
Johns Hopkins ED 591 out of 1934 (30.6%)
Emory ED 474 out of 1493 (31.7%)
Boston College RD ~6300 out of 28,500 (32.3%)
Boston College EA ~2900 out of 9000 (~33%)(def,3500=38.9%, rej,2500=27.8%)
Williams ED 257 out of 728 (35.3%)
University of Florida RD 13,214 out of ~34,000 (~38.9%)
Boston University ED1 916 out of 2142 (42.8%)
UVA EA (IS) 2575 out of 5278 (48.8%)
Fordham EA 9812 out of 19,859 (49.4%)
Georgia Tech EA (IS) ~2080 out of 4200 (~49%)
Middlebury ED1 343 out of 673 (51.0%) (def,60=8.9%, rej,270=40.1%)
William & Mary ED 528 out of 1023 (51.6%)
University of Georgia EA 8059 out of 15,614 (51.6%)
Fordham ED 156 out of 293 (53.2%)
Trinity College ED 315 out of 443 (71.1%)

[Corinthian]

Swarthmore admitted 960/9383 for a 10% acceptance rate. http://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/960-students-admitted-to-swarthmore-class-2021

[Carino]

My daughter was accepted in EA in UChicago, Do you know the number of applicants? The acceptance rate EA/ED1/ED2 combined was 9%

[paobs12]

This is such a helpful thread, However, I’m confused by the stats about Georgetown RD. Are these from last year? I don’t believe that this year’s decisions will be mailed out until the end of this month. Any info would be much appreciated.

[Testingearly]

@paobs12 - If you go back in this thread and read post 265 and 266 you will see that Georgetown already released all its class of 2021 numbers.
http://www.thehoya.com/class-of-2021-application-rate-increases-to-all-time-high/

[spayurpets]

Here’s the Swarthmore release text. Thanks for posting @Corinthian. As for UChicago, I have not seen any published source for the ED/EA acceptance rate, so if someone has a link to that, please share.

960 Students Admitted to Swarthmore Class of 2021

Swarthmore College has sent letters of admission to 960 prospective members of the Class of 2021. Twenty-five percent of the admitted students are among the first generation in their family to attend college, and 31 percent are affiliated with local and national community-based organizations like QuestBridge. Sixty percent of the admitted students come from public and/or charter schools, 21 percent from private independent schools, 10 percent from parochial schools, and eight percent from schools overseas. Swarthmore expects to yield a first-year class of about 405 for next fall.

“Swarthmore experienced an increase in applications this year from underrepresented students, first generation to college students, and international students,” says Jim Bock '90, vice president and dean of admissions. “The students in the admitted class value a vibrant, socially engaged, intellectual community of scholars in a residential liberal arts setting, and I am impressed by their broad array of talents and interests. We look forward to welcoming them to Swarthmore and seeing the impact they will leave on our campus and the world. I continue to be humbled by their love of learning, commitment to the common good, and the work they have done to support their families and communities.”

The admitted students come from or represent six continents, 69 nations, and 49 U.S. states as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. California is the most highly represented home state of members in the newly admitted class. Following, in order, are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Florida, and Arizona.

China, with 14 students, is the most represented nation among non-U.S. citizens in the admitted class. Eight are from India, six are from Brazil and South Korea, five are from Mexico and Thailand, and four are from Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Three each are from Kenya, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Two each are from Canada, Chile, Greece, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, and Turkey. One each is from Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Bolivia, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt , Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, and Zambia.

Additionally, there are many students who carry dual citizenship with the U.S. or who have permanent residency whose nationalities are not included in this summary.

Ten percent of the 9,383 students who applied were offered a position in the first-year class. Of the admitted students attending high schools reporting class rank, 94 percent are in the top decile.

Engineering is the most popular intended major among the admitted students. Next, in order, are political science, biology, economics, computer science, English literature, mathematics, psychology, biochemistry, and physics.

[spayurpets]

Adding Swarthmore:

MIT RD 781 out of 11,853 (6.6%)
MIT EA 657 out of 8394 (7.8%) (def=69.7%, rej=22.4%)
Pomona ED/RD ~742 out of 9046 (8.2%)
Swarthmore ED/RD 960 out of 9383 (10.2%)(Yield,405=42.1%)
Johns Hopkins RD 2542 out of 24,644 (10.3%)
Georgetown EA 931 out of 7822 (11.9%)(def=88.1%)
Boston University ED2 ~274 out of 2039 (~13.4%)
Harvard SCEA 938 out of 6473 (14.5%)
Georgetown RD ~3,219 out of 21,459 (15%)(Yield,1600=38.6%)
Princeton SCEA 770 out of 5003 (15.4%)
Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD ~4875 out of 30,464 (16%)
Yale SCEA 871 out of 5086 (17.1%) (def=52.7%, rej=28.6%)
Georgia Tech RD (IS/OOS) 2917 out of 15,769 (18.5%)
Rice ED 329 out of 1604 (20.5%)
Brown ED 695 out of 3170 (21.9%)(def=60%, rej=18%)
Georgia Tech EA (OOS) ~2300 out of 11,515 (~21%)
Penn ED 1354 out of 6147 (22.0%)
UVA EA (OOS) 3339 out of 14,968 (22.3%)
Vanderbilt ED1/ED2 __ out of __ (23.6%)
Carnegie Mellon ED 330 out of 1375 (24.0%)
Notre Dame REA 1470 out of 6020 (24.4%) (893 def=14.8%)
Duke ED 861 out of 3516 (24.5%)(def,671=19.1%)
Boston University RD 14,013 out of 56,634 (24.7%)(Yield,3400=22.4%)
Cornell ED ~1379 out of 5384 (25.6%)(def=20.9%, rej=53.5%)
Northwestern ED ~963 out of 3736 (~25.7%)
Dartmouth ED 555 out of 1999 (27.8%)
Georgia Tech EA (IS/OOS) 4380 out of 15,715 (27.9%)
Boston University ED1/ED2 ~1190 out of 4181 (~28.5%)
UVA EA (IS/OOS) 5914 out of 20,446 (28.9%)(def,5458=26.7%; rej,9074=44.4%)
Tulane EA 6480 out of 22,256 (29.1%)
Tufts ED1/ED2 ~675 out of 2310 (~29.2%)
Johns Hopkins ED 591 out of 1934 (30.6%)
Emory ED 474 out of 1493 (31.7%)
Boston College RD ~6300 out of 28,500 (32.3%)
Boston College EA ~2900 out of 9000 (~33%)(def,3500=38.9%, rej,2500=27.8%)
Williams ED 257 out of 728 (35.3%)
University of Florida RD 13,214 out of ~34,000 (~38.9%)
Boston University ED1 916 out of 2142 (42.8%)
UVA EA (IS) 2575 out of 5278 (48.8%)
Fordham EA 9812 out of 19,859 (49.4%)
Georgia Tech EA (IS) ~2080 out of 4200 (~49%)
Middlebury ED1 343 out of 673 (51.0%) (def,60=8.9%, rej,270=40.1%)
William & Mary ED 528 out of 1023 (51.6%)
University of Georgia EA 8059 out of 15,614 (51.6%)
Fordham ED 156 out of 293 (53.2%)
Trinity College ED 315 out of 443 (71.1%)

[LookAtThisNet]

Do you know when the UCs will release stats?

[Chrchill]

@spayurpets Uchicago ED1 and EA was confirmed as 9% by admissions officer at reception for admitted students. Have not seen anything on total acceptance rate including ED2 and RD.

[spayurpets]

Sorry I have no info on UC admissions. They haven’t published results yet. Last year was early April.