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

[spayurpets]

Adding Cornell:

Penn ED 1354 out of 6147 (22.0%)
Cornell ED ~1379 out of 5384 (25.6%)
Williams ED 257 out of 728 (35.3%)
University of Georgia EA 8059 out of 15,614 (51.6%)

[Hotmoma]

You seem to be completely dialed in…any info on Syracuse ED?

[spayurpets]

Sorry, no info on Syracuse. Waiting on Harvard, Smith et al. which are notifying applicants tonight.

[spayurpets]

Barnard released a thoughtful essay on the college choice and offered some tidbits of ED information. For the full essay, click on the link.https://barnard.edu/admissions/focus-early-decision

This year, Barnard College received the largest number of Early Decision applications in our history, 674, representing an increase of just over 40% from five years ago and 12% from last year. The overall quality of application was incredibly strong and the applicants continue to be independent-minded and intellectually driven.

Applicants came from 31 states and 17 countries, with perspectives and profiles as diverse as their geography.

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Early Decision enrollees will likely make up nearly 40% of our first year class (we also defer and deny applications in Early Decision*), so students who are sure Barnard is the right choice for them should consider applying early.

• Applicants deferred to our Regular Decision process typically represent 1/5 - 1/6 of our early pool.

[spayurpets]

Supplementing Cornell and since Barnard provided sufficient data, adding it to the ED list with the caveat that it is a very rough estimate:

Penn ED 1354 out of 6147 (22.0%)
Cornell ED ~1379 out of 5384 (25.6%)b**
Williams ED 257 out of 728 (35.3%)
Barnard ED ~248 out of 674 (~36.8%)(~18% def=120)
University of Georgia EA 8059 out of 15,614 (51.6%)

[Daykidmom]

Harvard took 938 out of 6473 (14.5%). Harvard Crimson article just published.

[spayurpets]

Thanks! Harvard Gazette article adds details:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/12/938-admitted-early-to-harvard-college-class-of-2021/

938 admitted early to College Class of 2021

Applications for early action at Harvard College rose 5 percent this year to 6,473, and 14.5 percent, or 938 students, were admitted to the Class of 2021. Last year, 6,167 applied early, and 14.8 percent, or 914 students, were admitted.

“Early admission appears to be the ‘new normal’ now, as more students are applying early to Harvard and peer institutions than ever before,” said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid. “At the same time, we have continued to stress to applicants, their families, and their guidance counselors that there is no advantage in applying early to Harvard. The reason students are admitted — early or during the regular action process — is that their academic, extracurricular, and personal strengths are extraordinary.”

The admissions committee is careful to ensure that only those students who are, in Fitzsimmons’ words, “100 percent certain” to be admitted in regular action are admitted early. “This is particularly important because in recent years we have received record numbers of applications,” said Fitzsimmons. Last year, 39,041 students applied for admission to the Class of 2020. Ten years ago, 22,754 students applied for admission to the Class of 2010.

The demographics for the Class of 2021 early action group are similar to last year’s group. Slightly more women (48.0 vs. 47.4 percent) make up the new class thus far, and more African-American students were admitted (12.6 percent vs. 9.5 percent last year). In addition, 21.7 percent of admitted students identify as Asian-American (compared with 24.1 percent last year), 8.8 percent as Latinos (vs. 9.5 percent), and 1.1 percent as Native American and Native Hawaiian (vs. 1.6 percent).

Geographic patterns were also similar, although there were somewhat more admitted students from the Midwest and Mountain states and fewer from the South and the West. Intended academic concentrations were similar, although there were slightly more humanists and social scientists this year.

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“Financial aid remained critically important to prospective Harvard students. Many used Harvard’s easy-to-use net price calculator to determine that Harvard was a realistic possibility for them,” said Sarah C. Donahue, Griffin Director of Financial Aid. More of those admitted early this year were estimated by staff to have high financial need, and slightly higher numbers of first-generation college students were admitted (8.7 percent vs. 8.2 percent).

[NASA2014]

News from Boston university?

[odannyboySF]

I wonder with the increase in ED submissions, if the percent of ED acceptances will rise or fall. I can see arguments on both sides. One one hand, colleges want the high yield. On the other side, more kids are trying ED as a means to get into reach schools.

[spayurpets]

It appears that there is an incremental increase in the number of accepted students from 2015 to 2016 but it’s not enough to drop the acceptance %.

Penn 1335–>1354
Williams 246–>257
Cornell 1338–>1379
Harvard 918–>938

[spayurpets]

Adding Harvard:

Harvard SCEA 938 out of 6473 (14.5%)
Penn ED 1354 out of 6147 (22.0%)
Cornell ED ~1379 out of 5384 (25.6%)(def=20.9%, rej=53.5%)
Williams ED 257 out of 728 (35.3%)
Barnard ED ~248 out of 674 (~36.8%)(~18% def=120)
University of Georgia EA 8059 out of 15,614 (51.6%)

[spayurpets]

Duke ED:
http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/12/duke-accepts-861-students-early-decision-out-of-record-number-of-applications

Duke accepts 861 students early decision out of record number of applications

Duke has accepted 861 high school seniors into the Class of 2021.

A record number of 3,516 students applied early decision this year, which is two percent more than last year. New York is the most represented state followed by North Carolina and Florida.

Students of color make up 41 percent of the admitted students—also a record high—and international students comprise seven percent.

“Overall, this year’s group of students admitted early decision will create a wonderful foundation for the Class of 2021—talented, enthusiastic, diverse and interested in taking full advantage of what Duke has to offer,” said, Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, in a Duke Today release.

The admission rate for early decision this year was 24.5 percent, which was the second most selective early decision process in Duke’s history.

Last year, 3,455 students applied early decision, and 813 were admitted—an acceptance rate of 23.5 percent. The early decision acceptance rates for the Class of 2019 and Class of 2018 were 26 percent and 25 percent, respectively.

This year, 691 students will enroll in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and the remaining 170 will enroll in the Pratt School of Engineering.

[spayurpets]

The heavy hitters announcing ED today are Brown, Dartmouth and Duke…

[asd543]

Anyone have the numbers for columbia? How many are usually deferred?
Also do we know the breakdown between CC and Fu?
Thanks!

[sona7662]

Any info on Washington University in St. Louis? Really interested in applying ED there and would like to know the numbers behind the process.

[spayurpets]

Columbia doesn’t usually reveal their ED admissions data at all, let alone to the level of detail you have requested. The only thing we know is that they had 4086 ED applications this year which was a 16% increase over last year.

[spayurpets]

Missed this from earlier this week: Notre Dame.
http://admissions.nd.edu/connect/news/notre-dame-admits-1470-early-action-applicants-to-the-class-of-2021/

Notre Dame Admits 1,470 Early Action Applicants to the Class of 2021

Six thousand and twenty students applied for consideration under the University’s Restricted
Early Action program. Early applications were up 10 percent over last year.

The profile of the admitted students:

1,035 different high schools from around the world
49 states and the District of Columbia
37 different nations of citizenship
100 students are citizens of other nations or U.S. students studying outside of the United States
46% attend public schools; 40% attend Catholic schools; and 14% attend private or charter schools
The academic and personal leadership and service profile is the highest achieved by a Notre Dame early admission admit cohort.

Don Bishop, associate vice president of undergraduate enrollment, notes, “This year our admitted pool has surpassed all prior classes with their exceptional academic records and they possess exceptional levels of achievement in leadership and service. We are inspired by the students who will become members of the Notre Dame Class of 2021.”

Notre Dame practices a holistic admission process that evaluates students for their exceptional intellectual promise, creativity and entrepreneurial talents, leadership, and their sense of service to others.

Notre Dame has a non-binding Restrictive Early Action program, meaning admitted students are free to select any other college or university to which they have been admitted. Last year, sixty-six percent of the Early Action admitted students enrolled at Notre Dame. Overall, Notre Dame typically ranks in the top ten schools in the nation for its overall enrollment rate and in the top six for universities that have early action rather than early decision binding programs.

This year, 893 admission candidates to Notre Dame were deferred in the early action process and they will be reconsidered in the regular decision admissions process. The deadline for Regular Decision applications is January 1 and decisions will be released in late March.

[spayurpets]

Adding Duke and Notre Dame:

Harvard SCEA 938 out of 6473 (14.5%)
Penn ED 1354 out of 6147 (22.0%)
Notre Dame REA 1470 out of 6020 (24.4%) (893 def=14.8%)
Duke ED 861 out of 3516 (24.5%)
Cornell ED ~1379 out of 5384 (25.6%)(def=20.9%, rej=53.5%)
Williams ED 257 out of 728 (35.3%)
Barnard ED ~248 out of 674 (~36.8%)(~18% def=120)
University of Georgia EA 8059 out of 15,614 (51.6%)

[2017BBGH]

I too am curious about WashU. I was admitted in the Early Decision round this year, so it’s more curiosity than anything

[spayurpets]

WUSTL is pretty cagey about releasing their ED information. This is the only info we had from last year’s admissions Class of 2020 data:

Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD 4729 out of 29197 (16.2%)

I don’t know if anyone has better information. Click on the link to get to last year’s final rundown of all the the class of 2020 admissions data.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20119751/#Comment_20119751