Acceptance rates for ED/EA

[Anonymous]

For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

[Anonymous]

I think this would mean more with the number of applicants; the number accepted; the number WL; and the number rejected

[Anonymous]

I think someone with more than me should rerun numbers to bring more clarity in these times where a large increase in apps are a result of being test optional:
1) % change in rejections to gauge how many apps were overly optimistic
2) % change in deferrals. This might show the AdCom punting marginal apps to RD
3) change the denominator where number deferrals and rejections are normalized.

Point being, super low admit % are being skewed by the volume of apps, many of which may be sub optimal.

[Anonymous]

What’s the percent change of those accepted compared to the past 2 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Duke has a 9% acceptance rate. Big advantage there to go ED.

[Anonymous]

If MIT and Harvard have 5 and 7% acceptance rates now during early action, what kind of rates will they have during RD?!? This is getting insane!!!

[Anonymous]

I think this is incorrect - wasn't there a thread showing something like 22% of EA applicants were taken at Brown and similar figures at MIT etc?

Then the overall acceptance rate goes down, to these single figures, as usual?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Duke has a 9% acceptance rate. Big advantage there to go ED.

Actually for RD it's more like 6%. And previous years ED rates have been around 20% (it seems to fall every year). But either way, yes, big advantage to go ED if it is your first choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is incorrect - wasn't there a thread showing something like 22% of EA applicants were taken at Brown and similar figures at MIT etc?

Then the overall acceptance rate goes down, to these single figures, as usual?

Here is a list with some EA/ED rates for 2025 https://www.collegekickstart.com/blog/item/class-of-2025-early-decision-and-early-action-results

The EA acceptance rate for MIT is so low because they saw something like a 60% increase in apps due to test-optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Note that the Georgia Tech early action is limited to Georgians only:

https://news.gatech.edu/2020/12/07/georgia-tech-admission-delivers-early-action-1-decisions

[Anonymous]

Hopkins had an early acceptance rate of 19%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Note that the Georgia Tech early action is limited to Georgians only:

https://news.gatech.edu/2020/12/07/georgia-tech-admission-delivers-early-action-1-decisions

That sounds fair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Note that the Georgia Tech early action is limited to Georgians only:

https://news.gatech.edu/2020/12/07/georgia-tech-admission-delivers-early-action-1-decisions

That sounds fair.

I wish all state universities would do that - give early action preference to in-state students.

[Anonymous]

But then they wouldn't be able to lock in full pay OOS families, which is really the point of early admittance for so many of these schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If MIT and Harvard have 5 and 7% acceptance rates now during early action, what kind of rates will they have during RD?!? This is getting insane!!!

MIT generally has a similar RD acceptance rate