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Class of 2029 Acceptance Rates for Highly Selective Colleges

Published on: April 14, 2025

Now that it’s April, the 2024-25 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.

The Common Application reported that as of March 1, 2025, 1,390,256 distinct first-year applicants had applied to 863 returning Common App members, an increase of 4% from 1,333,019 in 2023–24. Applicants identifying as an underrepresented minority

race/ethnicity increased by 12% in 2024–25, with fastest growth for applicants identifying as Latinx (13%) and Black or African American (10%). Applicants identifying as first-generation grew at a notable rate of 13%, while continuing-gen applicants did not increase from 2023–24 to 2024–25.

As you’ll see in the table, colleges such as Duke, Boston College, and Vanderbilt 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. Barnard College hasn’t shared their admit numbers either.

Take a look at the table below for Class of 2029 acceptance rates at highly selective colleges.

SchoolClass of 2029 Acceptance Rate
Amherst College7.4%
Boston College12.6%
Bowdoin College6.8%
Brown University5.65%
College of the Holy Cross17%
Columbia University4.3%
Dartmouth College6.0%
Duke University4.8%
Emory University15%
Georgetown University12%
Georgia TechOverall: 12.74%
In-state: 29.30%
Out-of-state and international: 8.93%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4.5%
New York University7.7%
Northwestern University7%
Rice University7.8%
Swarthmore University7.4%
Tufts University10.5%
University of Notre Dame9%
University of Southern California10.4%
University of VirginiaIn-state: 23.00%
Out-of-state and international: 12.50%
Vanderbilt University4.6%
Wellesley College13.7%
Williams College 8.5%
Yale University4.6%

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