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

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Adding GW:

Harvard RD 1118 out of 33,033 (3.4%)
Princeton RD 1120 out of 26,053 (4.3%)(waitlist,1168=4.5%, Yield,1308=69.2%)
Stanford REA/RD 2050 out of 44,073 (4.6%)
Yale RD 1401 out of 27,814 (5.0%)(Yield,1550=69.2%)
Columbia ED/RD 2185 out of 37,389 (5.8%)
Brown RD 1927 out of 29,554 (6.5%)(Deferred accepted,100=5.4%, waitlist,1000=3.4%)
MIT RD 781 out of 11,853 (6.6%)
Penn RD 2345 out of 34,266 (6.8%)(Yield,2445=66.1%)
Northwestern RD ~2408 out of 33,519 (7.2%)
Duke RD 2255 out of ~30,884 (7.3%)(58 deferred accepted=8.6%)
MIT EA 657 out of 8394 (7.8%) (def=69.7%, rej=22.4%)
Pomona ED/RD ~742 out of 9046 (8.2%)
Dartmouth RD 1537 out of 18,035 (8.5%)
Vanderbilt RD 2382 out of 27,841 (8.6%)
Swarthmore ED/RD 960 out of 9383 (10.2%)(Yield,405=42.1%)
Johns Hopkins RD 2542 out of 24,644 (10.3%)
Cornell RD ~4510 out of 41,654 (10.8%)(waitlist,5713=13.7%)
Bowdoin RD 719 out of ~6264 (11.5%)
Georgetown EA 931 out of 7822 (11.9%)(def=88.1%)
Williams College RD 996 out of 7865 (12.7%)
Tufts RD ~2453 out of 18,791 (13.1%)
Boston University ED2 ~274 out of 2039 (~13.4%)
Harvard SCEA 938 out of 6473 (14.5%)
Colorado College ED1/ED2/EA/RD 1212 out of 8215 (14.7%)
Barnard 1139 out of 7716 (14.8%)
Princeton SCEA 770 out of 5003 (15.4%)
Wesleyan ED1/ED2/RD ~1932 out 12,543 (15.4%)
Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD ~4875 out of 30,464 (16%)
USC RD 8980 out of 56,000 (16.0%)
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%)
Georgetown RD 2382 out of 13,643 (17.5%)(Yield, 1600=48.3%)
Georgia Tech RD (IS/OOS) 2917 out of 15,769 (18.5%)
Haverford ED/RD 859 out of 4424 (19.4%)
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%)
Wellesley ED1/ED2/RD ~1197 out of 5700 (~21%)
Emory RD 4698 out of 22,201 (21.2%)
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%)
Bowdoin ED1/ED2 244 out of ~976 (~25%)
Wake Forest RD ~2750 out of 11,000 (~25%)(Yield,1350=38.6%)
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%)
Wake Forest ED1/ED2 ~750 out of 2000 (~37.5%)
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%)
George Washington RD 10,216 out of ~25,500 (~40.1%)
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%)
George Washington ED1/ED2 815 out of ~1500 (~54.3%)
Trinity College ED1/ED2 315 out of 443 (71.1%)

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Interesting discussion.

FWIW, as a whole, student athletes at Stanford represent 13% (700/9000) of the undergrad student population. I know, it’s just one university, and it’s a total for all undergrads not just freshman, but I’d assume Stanford is at the high end of the scale in terms of %'s.

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UChicago admits students that are totally different from the ones admitted in HPY.
UChicago wants smart kids. Intellectuals. No everybody wants (or are good enough) to deal with their Core Curriculum.This school has, with CalTec, the students with the highest GPA’and test scores.
HPY want unique students with unique hooks and talents that not necessarily have something to do with high IQ’s.
They can afford this experiment.

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Agree with @hzhao2004 Chicago will almost certainly never be part of HYPSM and neither will any other school. It takes more than just a rise (gamed or not) in the rankings to do that.

@Chrchill These are definitely not the clubs for undergrad, no matter how much you want them to be.

The clubs for undergrad are:

1.HYPSM (with Harvard,Stanford at the top)

(gets a bit fuzzy after this)

  1. Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Caltech
  2. Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, NW,JHU

No other school is at the same tier as HYPSM.

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It’s interesting with all the discussion of U Chicago that the QS World Rankings and the Times World University rankings both put Chicago at #10 behind MIT, Stanford, Harvard and CalTech. Both rankings has Chicago at #10 in the world and Times has Chicago in a tie with Cal Berkeley.

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That would put UChicago fifth in the US. Pretty pretty good, especially since MIT amd Cal Tech are sui generis.

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Do we know anything about UC Berkeley’s acceptance rate this year?

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And another interesting wrinkle. There are three key graduate schools: law, medicine and business.
Harvard and Stanford are the only ones with top five in each field.
UChicago and Penn follow each with two top five schools.
Then Yale and Columbia (with some oddballs for medicine ) with one top five in each field.

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@tintininamerica

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2016

QS World Rankings has UChicago over Princeton, Yale, Cornell, JHU and Penn. With MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Caltech in the first places. UChicago number 5 among USA Universities.

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Does no one read the subject heading of this post?
College Admissions Statistics Class of 2021: Early and Regular Decision Acceptance Rates
That’s the title. Lets keep this post focused on that please. All other discussions should be taken to different threads.

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Can all fanboys of whatever school please leave this thread now and retreat to your own echo chambers? Most people attracted by the title of this thread have no interest in debating which school is in which “club”.

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Scrolling past all the jockeying for position looking for admission stats.

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MODERATOR’S NOTE:;

I was going to phrase it somewhat differently, but the message is the same. Debating whether this college is on the same level as that college is not the purpose of this thread. Please keep to topic. 25 posts deleted.

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Will those deleted posts affect my recently received Junior Member promotion? :slight_smile:

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Sorry if this has been asked already but when a school accepts someone off of their waitlist, does that action get incorporated into their RD or overall acceptance rate?

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Any statistics for Rice RD?

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Here is Vassar’s data

http://congrats2021.vassar.edu/about/

As far as the discussion about athletic admits, I don’t mean to go too far down the rabbit hole, but I think it is impossible to account for such admits, particularly in the larger, non Ivy schools. Virtually all D1 schools, outside of the Ivy and Patriot leagues, cede the admission decision to the athletic department for a certain number of athletes. My son was fortunate to go to high school with several D1 recruits in a variety of sports. If I remember correctly, at least for the kids I knew well, most got the actual admissions packet in the spring, around RD time, even though they all knew they had been admitted as of the date they signed their LOI. Then again, a lot of D1 athletes graduate high school early and enroll in the spring semester of what would normally be their senior year (if the high school and college allows it) so they can get a jump in the program. How those admits are accounted for I have no idea. Even in the Ivy, where we often hear that all athletes are admitted ED, several athletes are admitted RD every year, including my son and virtually all of his current teammates.

Another complicating factor is the distinction at every D1 school outside the Ivy between scholarship recruits/preferred walk ons/regular walk ons (in sports where those occur). Lots of schools treat these classifications differently for admissions purposes. As a specific example, Duke football provides an admit to scholarship recruits and preferred walk ons, while Notre Dame football provides an admit for scholarship players but only “support” for pwo’s. The Ivy provides likely letter support for identified recruits, and most would agree no support for walk ons. There is just no good data available anywhere to make intelligent choices for how to count the couple hundred athletic admits every year at say Notre Dame or Harvard.

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@collegemomjam

There’s not a simple answer to this because there isn’t a prevailing rule in place. My assumption is that a waitlisted student that is never accepted is counted as a rejection in the final rendering, and conversely, a waitlist that is accepted counts in the accepted student data and as a yield if they enroll. The data being provided now by the schools obviously don’t include the acceptances off the waitlist, and if a school wants to really fudge their data, they can fill up their waitlist, report a very low acceptance rate, accept a ton of students off the waitlist in June and then no one would be the wiser. Some schools provide Class Profiles that would probably be more accurate reflections of what they did to their waitlists, but even these do not have a standard for reporting. I think the only backstop to this type of activity is the CDS report, which probably does require a standard treatment on waitlist acceptances. But that doesn’t happen until much much later, if at all. (If I recall correctly, there was even a school in Maryland a couple of years ago that would revoke enrolled students during their first weeks on campus in order to affect their CDS data; in that crazy case, it was done to boost their graduation % numbers by cutting out low performers before they reported their entering class population. The President of the school was fired over this.)

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I think the IPEDS data also has to reflect the waitlist admits so the University would have to report it, although it is usually two years behind, so for example, they are still showing data for the class of 2019.

There is also the issue of how gap year admits are calculated.

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Adding Vassar. Insufficient data to calculate an ED acceptance rate, but if anyone knows the number of ED applications, please share.

Harvard RD 1118 out of 33,033 (3.4%)
Princeton RD 1120 out of 26,053 (4.3%)(waitlist,1168=4.5%, Yield,1308=69.2%)
Stanford REA/RD 2050 out of 44,073 (4.6%)
Yale RD 1401 out of 27,814 (5.0%)(Yield,1550=69.2%)
Columbia ED/RD 2185 out of 37,389 (5.8%)
Brown RD 1927 out of 29,554 (6.5%)(Deferred accepted,100=5.4%, waitlist,1000=3.4%)
MIT RD 781 out of 11,853 (6.6%)
Penn RD 2345 out of 34,266 (6.8%)(Yield,2445=66.1%)
Northwestern RD ~2408 out of 33,519 (7.2%)
Duke RD 2255 out of ~30,884 (7.3%)(58 deferred accepted=8.6%)
MIT EA 657 out of 8394 (7.8%) (def=69.7%, rej=22.4%)
Pomona ED/RD ~742 out of 9046 (8.2%)
Dartmouth RD 1537 out of 18,035 (8.5%)
Vanderbilt RD 2382 out of 27,841 (8.6%)
Swarthmore ED/RD 960 out of 9383 (10.2%)(Yield,405=42.1%)
Johns Hopkins RD 2542 out of 24,644 (10.3%)
Cornell RD ~4510 out of 41,654 (10.8%)(waitlist,5713=13.7%)
Bowdoin RD 719 out of ~6264 (11.5%)
Georgetown EA 931 out of 7822 (11.9%)(def=88.1%)
Williams College RD 996 out of 7865 (12.7%)
Tufts RD ~2453 out of 18,791 (13.1%)
Boston University ED2 ~274 out of 2039 (~13.4%)
Harvard SCEA 938 out of 6473 (14.5%)
Colorado College ED1/ED2/EA/RD 1212 out of 8215 (14.7%)
Barnard 1139 out of 7716 (14.8%)
Princeton SCEA 770 out of 5003 (15.4%)
Wesleyan ED1/ED2/RD ~1932 out 12,543 (15.4%)
Washington University in St. Louis ED/RD ~4875 out of 30,464 (16%)
USC RD 8980 out of 56,000 (16.0%)
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%)
Georgetown RD 2382 out of 13,643 (17.5%)(Yield, 1600=48.3%)
Georgia Tech RD (IS/OOS) 2917 out of 15,769 (18.5%)
Haverford ED/RD 859 out of 4424 (19.4%)
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%)
Wellesley ED1/ED2/RD ~1197 out of 5700 (~21%)
Emory RD 4698 out of 22,201 (21.2%)
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%)
Vassar ED1/ED2/RD 1769 out of 7746 (22.8%)(275 ED accepted)
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%)
Bowdoin ED1/ED2 244 out of ~976 (~25%)
Wake Forest RD ~2750 out of 11,000 (~25%)(Yield,1350=38.6%)
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%)
Wake Forest ED1/ED2 ~750 out of 2000 (~37.5%)
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%)
George Washington RD 10,216 out of ~25,500 (~40.1%)
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%)
George Washington ED1/ED2 815 out of ~1500 (~54.3%)
Trinity College ED1/ED2 315 out of 443 (71.1%)