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

Did UCLA’s acceptance rate seriously go up from last year? Even with so many applicants?

@spayurpets: I thought that WF passage was hilarious.
“Our brain took more ED this year. Will that happen next year? We don’t know! Our brain hasn’t decided yet!”

Though in fairness, I can see how it could be phrased that way if WF isn’t looking to target a certain percentage of a class in ED and simply admits all they believe are above a bar in ED.

I’m guessing that the decision is response to the increasing number of applications submitted by students, including students with very strong application packages. It seems like yield is much more difficult to estimate as a result. I think the school is hinting that this trend will make it more likely the school will find it desirable to admit a larger number of ED applicants, who will be attending their first-choice school.

UChicago is one of the top 3 colleges with the smartest students in USA (highest GPA’s and Test scores). UChicago must be doing something right.

Not to state the obvious here, but there is more to look at than acceptance rates. While I think they are somewhat directionally correct in guiding students on selectivity, students need to make sure they are looking at stats also. If AU really dropped to an acceptance rate below BC’s, I would NOT take that to mean it is easier to get in to BC than AU. It definitely is NOT.

A few years back my BC daughter got presidential scholarships from schools with technically lower acceptance rates than BC’s. There are just many variables in determining competitiveness. And I’m not saying this happens, but I do think colleges, whether it be on purpose or not, manipulate the numbers by changing application requirements, advertising, adding more “early” options, or whatever. These threads are valuable because you can see by the stats of who is NOT getting into some schools, despite what the acceptance rates suggest.

And not to state one more obvious thing, but it is also very important to realize how different acceptance rates can be within the same university, depending on which school he/she applies to.

One more point to make on this topic…

I just spent the weekend with my daughter at the Georgetown accepted students weekend. (What a great school by the way).

The dean of admissions made a very good point about Georgetown’s acceptance rates (12% EA this year, 15 RD).

Georgetown has held on to it’s rigorous application requirements on purpose to really weed out applicants that are not serious about going there. I used to be kind of bothered by Georgetown’s rigorous requirements, but now I have grown to respect them.

So imagine if you only needed 2 subject tests (or none at all) and if you didn’t have to send ALL scores? And if they were Common App??? No supplements?? If you had the extra $70, it would be so easy to just hit a button. But Georgetown doesn’t get those applicants.

In spite of the rigorous requirements, their applicant pools are still growing.

It in my opinion that their acceptance rate would absolutely be single digits if they made it easier, as I suggested above. And it still might be harder to get in to Georgetown than some schools with “lower” acceptance rates.

Trinity College (hat tip to College Kickstart for flagging this one and Macalester):

http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/pages/RegularDecisionClassOf2021Spring2017.aspx

Macalester class profile: https://www.macalester.edu/admittedstudents/classprofile/

Admitted Student Profile for Class of 2021

Total Applicants 5,901
Applicants admitted 39%
States represented among the accepted class of 2020 50 + DC, Puerto Rico, and Mariana Islands
Countries represented among this year’s admitted students 97
Rank in the top tenth of their class (of those who had a class rank) 75%
Admitted U.S. students who are students of color 33%
Different high schools represented by admitted students 1,386
Countries (by citizenship) with applicants to Mac this year 141
Median Test Scores for Admitted Students

SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Math: 690
SAT I Writing: 690
Combined: 2090
ACT: 32

Top 10 States in Order of Students Admitted
California
Minnesota
Illinois
New York
Wisconsin
Washington
Massachusetts
Oregon
Colorado
Texas

Adding Trinity and Macalester: (n.b.I had to force some of the numbers for Trinity and assume that the ED reported numbers were for both ED1/ED2 combined)

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%)
Williams College RD 996 out of 7865 (12.7%)
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%)
Middlebury RD 1350 out of ~8082 (16.7%)(Yield,705=40.2%)
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%)
UCLA RD (IS/OOS) ~20,400 out of 102,000 (~20%)
Carleton College ED1/ED2/RD ~1300 out of 6500 (~20%)(Yield,520=~40%)(ED1/ED2=~208)
Rice ED 329 out of 1604 (20.5%)
UVA RD (OOS) 2342 out of 10,897 (21.5%)
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%)
UVA RD (IS/OOS) 4043 out of 16,361 (24.7%)
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%)
Trinity College RD 1691 out of 5655 (30.0%)
UVA RD (IS) 1701 out of 5664 (30.0%)
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%)
Middlebury ED2 60 out of ~155 (38.7%)
University of Florida RD 13,214 out of ~34,000 (~38.9%)
Macalester ED1/ED2/RD ~2301 out of 5901 (~39.0%)
Boston University ED1 916 out of 2142 (42.8%)
Middlebury ED1/ED2 403 out ~828 (48.7%)
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 ED1/ED2 315 out of 443 (71.1%)

do you know about CMU RD, GT RD, or SLO RD?

No, Yes (it’s there), No (don’t know what SLO is)

cal poly san luis obispo. also do you know GT RD for oos only?

@LookAtThisNet OOS vs IS only matters for public schools, there is no difference when it comes to private schools.

Waiting for Wesleyan’s stats. Accepted as an international student.

@IN4655: GTech is a public.

@IN4655 gatech is public that’s why i was asking cus i saw from the gatech infographic that the in state acceptance rate was like 44% so i wanted to know oos

Skidmore college 10,000 applications and 660 accepted. Please add

That’s a 6.6% acceptance rate. I doubt how I got in…

@Vagabond422, 660 is the target size of the class. They accepted many more than that. Do you have a link to a source?

@PurpleTitan @LookAtThisNet Thought he was speaking of Georgetown, my bad.