College Admissions Statistics Class of 2023

Was Colby’s admit percent that low last year?

@emorynavy Colby’s class of 2022 acceptance rate was 13% (1,602/12,314). 565 students enrolled, so yield of 35%
Colby has no supplemental essay, no app fee and this year went test optional—all factors that increase applications

Colby last year was 13%. It admitted 1,602 out of 12,313.
https://www.colby.edu/news/2018/03/23/demand-for-colby-rises-among-high-achieving-students/

Many schools are accepting far fewer students, as they see or believe their yields rising. The admit rate is going down not only because of more applications, but also because fewer places are being offered.

@jin2000
Why is that weird WashU has always been test-sensitive, and everyone’s stats are increasing.

@Mwfan1921
oh, test-optional…not as impressed then.

A few more admissions updates.

Williams - 1,205 admitted from 9,715 applicants
https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/3_19_2019_class2023/

Wellesley - 20% of 6,488 applicants
https://www.wellesley.edu/news/2019/stories/node/164651

Swarthmore - 995 admitted from more than 11,400
https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/995-admitted-to-swarthmore-class-2023

Hamilton (16% admit rate - which works out to be same number of admits as last year’s 21% admit rate, because Hamilton received 8,338 applications compared to 6,240 last year)
https://www.hamilton.edu/admission/information-for-accepted-students

I wonder why Pomona didn’t include the number of applications. It might be because there was a substantial drop?

Haverford - 801 out of 4,968 applicants
https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2023

Emory U
Emory College- 4512 out of 30,017 applicants 15%
Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 applicants 19%

https://news.emory.edu/features/2019/03/admission/

Amherst
1,144 admits from 10,567 applications (11%)

https://www.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2019/3-2019/introducing-the-class-of-2023

@bronze2

I was confused about the story you linked to:

"At 6:21 p.m. exactly—that’s 18:21 in military time—some 10,567 applicants will find out whether they are among an exclusive group.

When they log on to the Amherst website, 1,144 students (or 11 percent of applicants) will receive the good news: They have been admitted to Amherst’s class of 2023."

Did Amherst stop ED admissions? Or is this just the regular admit students?

Press release is a little wonky. The numbers are meant to include all applicants (ED+RD). Amherst did have a record low overall acceptance rate of 10.8% this year.

@observer12 many of the releases are now announcing total admits and total applicants for the entire admissions cycle for the Class of 2023.

A couple more releases this evening

Washington and Lee - 1,115 admits from 6,178 applicants (18.0%)
https://columns.wlu.edu/washington-and-lee-admits-1115-to-class-of-2023/

UVA - 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
https://news.virginia.edu/content/wahoowa-uva-releases-admissions-decisions

Boston College EA up 50% and total applications surge to record of 35000. Up 18%

The Office of Undergraduate Admission received 15,862 Early Action applications, a surge of 50 percent from last year’s applicant pool of 10,350. The University admitted 4,488 students in December, an acceptance rate of about 28 percent. Including regular decision applicants, BC received over 35,000 applications for the incoming freshman class — a new record.

Represented among accepted students are all 50 states, three of five U.S. territories, and 49 countries. AHANA+ applicants make up 35 percent of accepted students, a jump of four percent from last year’s early admission yield.

Admitted students averaged a 34 on the ACT and a 1477 on the SAT.

@privatebanker
You should just wait until they release the full ED and RD stats. EA is long over with.

@emorynavy thanks for the input. But this is for posterity and it can help someone down the line. Which is the only reason for this thread.

It’s also the 35000 applications which is good info. I’ll update as soon as I can find them.

But looks like all the schools had a really competitive cycle.

MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
MIT EA: 707 out of 9,600 (7.4%)
JHU ED + RD 2,950 out of 32,231 (9.2%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Amherst 1,144 out of 10,567 (11%)
USC 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
Yale SCEA: 794 out of 6,016 (13.2%)
Harvard REA: 935 out of 6,958 (13.4%)
Princeton SCEA: 743 out of 5,335 (13.9%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory - 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Rice ED: 408 out of 2628 (15.5%)
Penn ED: 1279 out of 7,110 (18.0%)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
Brown ED: 769 out of 4,230 (18.2%)
Duke ED: 882 out of 4,852 (18.2%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
Georgia Tech EA: 4000 out of 20289 (19.7%)
Notre Dame REA: 1,534 out of 7,334 (20.9%)
Cornell ED: 1,395 out of 6,159 (22.6%)
Dartmouth ED: 574 out of 2,474 (23.2%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Northwestern ED: ~1,100 out of 4,399 (~25.0%)
UVA EA: 6,550 out of 25126 (27.7%)
Emory ED1: ~559 out of 1,910 (~29%)
UNC EA: 7867 out of 25867 (30.4%)
Johns Hopkins ED: 641 out of 2,068 (31.0%)
UGA EA: 7500 out of 17000 (44.1%)
Middlebury ED1: 297 out of 654 (45.4%)

Boston College: EA+RD 9500 out of 35500 (27%)

https://bcheights.com/2019/03/23/acceptance-rate-2023-27-percent/

Boston College

2023 admission stats: (26.7%) overall acceptance rate. RD acceptance rate 19%
35,500 total apps (15,862 early + 19600 RD)
9,500 total accepted (4,488 early + 5,000 RD)
overall admitted student averages ACT 33, SAT 1461 (EA admitted averages 34, 1477)

Boston U 3100 out of 62210 applicants = 18.1%
Admitted SAT 1468, ACT 33

@TomSrOfBoston had a comment in the BU forum about some playing with spring admit numbers, though.