Now that it’s April, the 2023-24 application cycle has wrapped up for most colleges. We’re starting to see patterns–and new records–emerge in the admissions numbers across different schools.
According to the Common App, the number of applicants increased by nearly 6% over the last year for its member colleges. This cohort is the first to be admitted since the Supreme Court severely restricted race-conscious admissions practices at universities nationwide. In the wake of this decision, many schools implemented other policies to support students of diverse ethnicities, such as essays about students’ backgrounds and new financial aid policies. For instance, Duke University announced free tuition for North and South Carolina-based applicants from families with incomes below $150,000 a year. Duke received 4,700 more applicants than last year for the Class of 2028—1,250 of which were from North and South Carolina.
As you’ll see in the table, colleges such as Yale, USC, Williams, Rice, and Duke saw record low acceptance rates. Meanwhile, Princeton, Cornell, and Stanford continued to withhold their admit numbers, a pattern that has continued over the last few cycles.
Take a look at the table below for Class of 2028 acceptance rates at highly selective colleges.
School Acceptance Rate
Amherst College 9%
Barnard College 7%
Boston College 15%
Boston University 11%
Bowdoin College 7%
Brown University 5%
Carleton College 18%
Colby College 7%
Colorado Colege 18%
Dartmouth College 5%
Duke University 5%
Emory University 14%
Georgetown University 12%
Georgia Tech 14%
Harvard University 4%
Johns Hopkins University 5%
MIT 5%
New York University 8%
Northwestern 8%
Rice University 7.5
Swarthmore College 8%
Tufts University 10%
Tulane University 13%
University of Notre Dame 11%
University of Southern California 9%
University of Virginia 16%
Vanderbilt University 5%
Wellesley College 13%
Wesleyan University 16%
Williams College 8%
Yale University 4%
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