Class of 2029 Acceptance Rates

[Anonymous]

Class of 2029 Acceptance Rates - The Results Are In

Absolutely wild year!

|School|Class of 2029 Overall Acceptance Rate|
|:-|:-|
|Caltech|\~2.3%|
|Stanford|\~3.9%|
|Harvard|\~4.2%|
|Columbia|4.3%|
|Duke|4.5%|
|MIT|4.5%|
|Princeton|\~4.5%|
|Yale|4.6%|
|UPenn|\~4.9%|
|Vanderbilt|\~5.6%|
|Brown|5.7%|
|Dartmouth|6%|
|Johns Hopkins|\~6%|
|Bowdoin|\~6.8%|
|Northwestern|7%|
|Pomona|\~7.2%|
|Amherst|7.4%|
|Swarthmore|7.4%|
|NYU|7.7%|
|Rice|7.8%|
|Cornell|\~8.4%|
|Williams|8.5%|
|UCLA|\~8.6%|
|Notre Dame|9%|
|Claremont McKenna|\~9.4%|
|USC|10.4%|
|Berkeley|\~10.5%|
|Tufts|10.5%|
|CMU|\~11%|
|Georgetown|12.2%|
|Harvey Mudd|\~12.3%|
|WashU|\~12.5%|
|Boston College|12.6%|
|Georgia Tech|12.7%|
|Wellesley|13.7%|
|Emory|14.9%|
|UNC|\~15.1%|
|UMich|\~15.2%|
|UVA|15.4%|

[Anonymous]

Pray tell: source?

[Anonymous]

Those state schools are even lower than listed because those rates include in-state and out-of-state kids.

[Anonymous]

Any word for the t30 lacs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any word for the t30 lacs?

Some LACs are in that list

[Anonymous]

What is the difference between this and last year?

[Anonymous]

Variable use of ED and test policies amongst these names make the results a bit apples:oranges, yet pretty striking in the macro.

Popular schools are popular!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the difference between this and last year?

The test required ivies are up slightly due to less applications.

[Anonymous]

NYU with a lower acceptance rate than Cornell is laughable. Anyone who has ever been through this process knows how rigged these numbers are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Class of 2029 Acceptance Rates - The Results Are In

Absolutely wild year!

|School|Class of 2029 Overall Acceptance Rate|
|:-|:-|
|Caltech|\~2.3%|
|Stanford|\~3.9%|
|Harvard|\~4.2%|
|Columbia|4.3%|
|Duke|4.5%|
|MIT|4.5%|
|Princeton|\~4.5%|
|Yale|4.6%|
|UPenn|\~4.9%|
|Vanderbilt|\~5.6%|
|Brown|5.7%|
|Dartmouth|6%|
|Johns Hopkins|\~6%|
|Bowdoin|\~6.8%|
|Northwestern|7%|
|Pomona|\~7.2%|
|Amherst|7.4%|
|Swarthmore|7.4%|
|NYU|7.7%|
|Rice|7.8%|
|Cornell|\~8.4%|
|Williams|8.5%|
|UCLA|\~8.6%|
|Notre Dame|9%|
|Claremont McKenna|\~9.4%|
|USC|10.4%|
|Berkeley|\~10.5%|
|Tufts|10.5%|
|CMU|\~11%|
|Georgetown|12.2%|
|Harvey Mudd|\~12.3%|
|WashU|\~12.5%|
|Boston College|12.6%|
|Georgia Tech|12.7%|
|Wellesley|13.7%|
|Emory|14.9%|
|UNC|\~15.1%|
|UMich|\~15.2%|
|UVA|15.4%|

WashU was 11%

[Anonymous]

Where is this data even from? Take for example Duke. It says 4.5% but Duke’s own website says 4.8%

https://today.duke.edu/2025/03/duke-welcomes-newest-members-class-2029

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those state schools are even lower than listed because those rates include in-state and out-of-state kids.

Yep. Georgia Tech at 9% for OOS this cycle.

[Anonymous]

UT Austin is believed to have been about 5% for OOS this year, with a 48% increase in OOS applications.

[Anonymous]

Emory-14.9 includes Emory college and Oxford.
Emory is only 9.5%.

[Anonymous]

Liberty University 99%