Admission Statistics

Selective College Admission Rates 2028

College

Overall Acceptance Rate

Regular Decision Acceptance Rate

Early Admission

Acceptance Rate

% Class Filled Early Admission

Brown

5.16%

3.88%

12.98%

51.70%

Columbia

3.85%

4.60%

15.91%

46.43%

Cornell

12.52%

5.41%

19.20%

52.41%

Dartmouth

5.3%

8.52%

17.10%

47.23%

Harvard

3.59%

3.38%

8.74%

55.18%

Penn

5.00%

8.07%

15.51%

50.23%

Princeton

4.50%

4.30%

15.82%

57.15%

Yale

3.73%

5.04%

9.00%

64.04%

Stanford

3.81%

3.67%

9.22%

42.41%

MIT

4.52%

5.75%

7.83%

62.57%

Cal Tech

3.91%

Carnegie Mellon

16.38%

 14.38%

University of Chicago

5.16%

 14.38%

Duke

5.15%

23.10% 

Emory

14.50%

32.10% 

Georgetown

12.00%

 10.00%

Johns Hopkins

6.20%

14.80% 

Northwestern

7.50%

19.00% 

50.00% 

Notre Dame

19.00%

35.60 

Tufts

14.80%

UC Berkeley

18.30%

 N/A

UC Davis

42.00%

 N/A

UC San Diego

34.10%

 N/A

UC Santa Barbara

32.80%

N/A 

UCLA

16.17%

N/A

UNC Chapel Hill

23.72%

37.07% 

USC

16.00%

 N/A

Vanderbilt

10.90%

23.91% 

Virginia

27.00%

30.83% 

Wash. U St. Louis

16.00%

37.57% 

Amherst

13.81%

39.64% 

Barnard

17.00%

35.20% 

Bates

23.60%

50.32% 

Bowdoin

14.50%

27.24% 

Carleton

23.10%

32.00% 

Claremont McKenna

10.36%

31.00% 

Colgate

28.78%

50.00% 

Colby

19.00%

36.23% 

Haverford

21.20%

51.33% 

Kenyon

27.00%

63.76% 

Macalester

37.10%

52.81% 

Middlebury

16.00%

43.50% 

Pitzer

13.80%

30.27% 

Pomona

8.35%

19.25% 

Smith

37.22%

56.52% 

Swarthmore

12.80%

33.75% 

Vassar

27.10%

43.10% 

Wellesley

28.59%

45.23% 

Wesleyan

16.28%

38.07% 

Williams

17.61%

40.23%