Ivy League Admission Statistics for Class of 2021

Admission Statistics for the Class of 2021

© 2017 Top Tier Admissions

Ivies Plus^© — Class of 2021

Ivies Plus^© — Classes of 2019-2021

Ivies Overall, Early Round & Regular Decision

Ivy League Admissions — Classes of 2019-2021

MIT + Stanford Admit Rates — Classes of 2019-2021

MIT + Stanford Admissions — Class of 2021

Ivies Plus^© — Volume of Applications — From 2013 to 2021

Ivies Plus^© — Changes in Volume of Applications — From 2013 to 2021

Ivies Plus^© — Historical Admits— From 2013 to 2021

Ivies Plus^© — Historical Admit Rates — From 2013 to 2021

Review of Class of 2021 — Entering Fall 2017

Boston College: Boston College admitted 9,200 applicants to the Class of 2021. A total of 28,500 restrictive early action and regular decision applications were received, down 1 percent from last year. Students were admitted from 50 states and 61 foreign countries. They accepted 2,900 students from a pool of 9,000 during the Early Action round.

Bowdoin: Bowdoin accepted 13.4 percent of applicants to the Class of 2021, the lowest acceptance rate on record. The College received a total of 7,251 applications, a 7 percent increase from 2016. 244 students were accepted during early decision, for an acceptance rate around 25 percent. They make up between 42 and 49 percent of the incoming first-year class.

Brown University: The University offered admission to 8.32 percent of its applicants to the class of 2021, down from last year’s record-low acceptance rate of 9.01 percent.  The rate of admission for the ED round stood at just below 22 percent. Out of the 32,724 students who applied — the largest pool in University history — 2,722 students were admitted. The 2,027 students accepted through the regular decision process will join the 695 students admitted in December.  Last year. Brown admitted 2,919 students or 9.01 percent of its 32,390 applicants to the class of 2020.

Carleton: Carleton admitted 20 percent of applicants, including 40 percent from two Early Decision rounds. They received 6,500 applications with the goal of enrolling a class of approximately 520 students. The admitted students are from all 50 states and 31 countries. 14 percent of the admits are first-generation students.

Carnegie Mellon: For the Class of 2021, the admitted students had the following distribution.

The Class of 2021 includes students from 45 states and 27 nations. CMU admitted 330 of 1375 ED applicants to the Class of 2021, for an admission rate of about 24 percent.

Claremont McKenna: Claremont McKenna received 6,350 applications for the class of 2021, the second-largest applicant pool in history. They accepted 657 (including 207 from the early round) applicants, or 10.35 percent. CMC admitted 207 of 667 ED applicants, for an admission rate of about 31 percent.

Colby: Colby College received a record high number of applicants for the Class of 2021, leading to a 16 percent acceptance rate, shattering past applications numbers. The College received 11,190 applications, a 14 percent increase from the Class of 2020.  The applicant pool was the most diverse and competitive in College history. The middle 50 percent for the ACT was 31-33. They had an increase in early decision applications for the third year in a row. And, applications from students of color have increased at Colby, 200 percent in the last 2 years.

Colgate: Class of 2021 admission data

The class was chosen from 8,542 applicants representing 49 states, the District of Columbia, and 128 countries. Admitted students had an average GPA of 3.8 and an average combined SAT of 1444. 83% were in the top 10 percent of their class and 954 percent were in the top 20 percent.

Early decision

Columbia University: For the Class of 2021, Columbia accepted 2,185 from 37,389 applications.  The acceptance rate of 5.84 percent was slightly lower than the previous 6.04 percent when Columbia admitted 2,193 from 36,292 applications.  In this admission cycle, Columbia received 4,086 early decision applications and accepted 650 students for an admission rate just below 16 percent. 90 percent were in the top 10 percent of their class.

Cornell University: According to its Office of Admissions and Enrollment, Cornell received the highest number of applications in university history for freshman admission for the second consecutive year. There were 47,038 applicants for admission to the Class of 2021; the previous record was 44,965 applicants for the Class of 2020.

A total of 5,889 applicants were admitted for an overall admit rate of 12.52 percent, down from last year’s admit rate of 13.96 percent. Cornell admitted about 1,378 early applicants from a pool of 5,384.  In 2016, Cornell received 44,965 applications for freshman admission to the Class of 2020. The overall admit rate reported by Cornell was 13.96 percent as the school admitted 6,277 applicants with 4,939 regular decision applicants and 1,338 Early Decision applicants.

Dartmouth College: The College offered admission to the Class of 2021 to 2,092 students for an overall acceptance rate of 10.44 percent, down from last year’s 10.52 percent acceptance rate when Dartmouth College extended offers of admission to 2,176 applicants for its Class of 2020. The total number of accepted students includes the 555 admitted through the early decision process in December. The overall number of applicants decreased by 3 percent from 20,675 students from last year‘s 20,034 applicants.

Dickinson: Dickinson extended offers of admission to 203 Early Decision applicants for the Class of 2021.

Duke: Duke University received a record 34,300 applications, an increase of nearly 7 percent from last year. Almost 55 percent of all applicants were students of color – an increase of nearly 3 percent over last year. There was a 22 percent increase in Latino applicants as well. The middle 50 percent for the SAT CR was 690-780 and the SAT Math was 700-790. The middle 50 percent for the ACT was 31-34. A record number of students (3,516) applied early with Duke accepting 861 applicants into the Class of 2021 (691 into Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, 170 in the Pratt School of Engineering). This reflects a 24.5 percent acceptance rate, which is the second most selective early decision process in Duke’s history. These 861 students admitted through early decision will make up 50 percent of the Class of 2021. This year’s 3,516 applicants are 2 percent more than last year. Last year, 3,455 students applied early decision, and 813 were admitted—an acceptance rate of 23.5 percent. The early decision acceptance rates for the Class of 2019 and Class of 2018 were 26 percent and 25 percent, respectively.

Emory: Applications for Emory University’s undergraduate programs have hit an all-time high, with a record-breaking total applicant pool of 24,114 students seeking to join the Class of 2021, an increase of 19 percent over last year. The admission rate fell to 21.8 percent this year, from 25.3 percent last year. Emory College applications were up 19 percent to 23,694 and Oxford College applications jumped 63 percent to 14,080. More than half of the applicants (56 percent) sought to be considered for admission to both colleges. Applications were received from all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and from more than 65 countries. There was also an increase in domestic diversity, with a rise in applications from African American and Latino/Hispanic students. Of the 5,172 admitted students to the College, the mean unweighted GPA was 3.83. The mean composite SAT and ACT scores were 1475 and 32.3, respectively.

Georgetown: Georgetown University admissions anticipates admitting approximately 15 percent of regular decision applicants to the Class of 2021. A total of 21,459 regular decision applications were received this year, up 12.4 percent from the previous year. Georgetown accepted just fewer than 12 percent (931) of its 7,822 early action applicants to the Class of 2021, a record-low rate being 1 percent lower than last year’s 13 percent. The early applicant pool increased by 11 percent from last year as well.

Georgia Tech: Georgia Tech admitted 23 percent of applicants to the Class of 2021. 7,297 students were admitted from a total pool of 31,484 early action and regular decision applicants.

Harvard University: Harvard accepted a record-low 5.20 percent of applicants to its Class of 2021. This year, Harvard received a total of 39,506 applications compared to 39,041 for the Class of 2020 when the school admitted 2,037 students resulting in an overall admissions rate of 5.22 percent.  With 2,056 admitted students to the Class of 2021, the rate of admission dropped to 5.20 percent for the combined SCEA and regular decision. In the early round, Harvard University received 6,473 applications and accepted 938, for an admit rate of 14.49% which represents a decrease from the 14.87% of 2020.  The SCEA admit rate is substantially higher than the regular decision acceptance rate of below 4 percent, and below 3 percent if factoring the students who were deferred. About 80 percent of students admitted to the College’s Class of 2020 plan to matriculate to Harvard, roughly even with the yield rates of the past two years.

Harvard’s acceptance rate of 5.20 percent was higher than the rate at Stanford, which admitted only 4.65 percent of applicants. Harvard’s percentage was lower, however, than those of its peers in the Ivy League: Yale accepted 6.91 percent, Princeton 6.09 percent, Columbia 5.84 percent, Brown 8.32 percent, the University of Pennsylvania 9.15 percent, Dartmouth 10.44 percent, and Cornell 12.52 percent.

Johns Hopkins: Johns Hopkins admitted 2,542 applicants to the Class of 2021 under regular decision. Overall, 3,133 early and regular decision applicants were admitted from a total pool of 26,578, an acceptance rate of 12 percent. The 1,934 early decision applicants this year represent a slight increase from the then-record number of 1,929 who applied early decision last year. With 591 early decision acceptances for the Class of 2021, this reflects a 30.56 percent acceptance rate.

Middlebury: Middlebury College has offered admission to 1,350 students for the Class of 2021. The total number of admitted students this year is 1,753, which includes 343 students who were admitted through early decision. In all, this year’s accepted students were selected from among 8,910 applicants, the third largest number in the College’s history. Middlebury admitted 16.7 percent of its regular decision applicants. The Middle 50 percent ACT score was 30-34. Middlebury offered 343 students early admission to the Class of 2021. The admitted students were chosen from a pool of 673 applicants—an increase of 6.5 percent over last year—and represent about 51 percent of the class.

MIT: MIT admitted 1,438 students out of 20,247 applicants for the Class of 2021 for an acceptance rate of 7.10 percent. The Middle 50 percent SAT CR was 730-780 and Middle 50 percent Math was 770-800. The Middle 50% ACT score was 34-35. In its early round, MIT admitted 657 students out of 8,394 applications, yielding 7.83% or the lowest rate of acceptance in an early round among its peer group composed of the Ivy League and Stanford.

In 2016, MIT admitted 1,485 students out of 19,020 applicants for the Class of 2020 for an acceptance rate of 7.81percent.  In 2015, MIT admitted 1,467 students out of 18,306 applicants for the Class of 2019 for an acceptance rate of 8.01 percent.

New York University:  NYU admitted 18,520 students as members of the class of 2021. The acceptance rate of 27 percent is the lowest in 16 years. The Class of 2021 has been announced to be the most diverse class in NYU’s history. The diversity ranges from the largest percentage of international students in its history, the largest percentage of African-American and Latino students in the last 16 years and 17 percent of the admitted students being first generation college students.

Northwestern: Northwestern’s acceptance rate for the Class of 2021 has dropped below 10 percent for the first time, as they admitted 9 percent of applicants. 3,371 of the 37,255 applications received were accepted. For the Class of 2020, they accepted 10.7 percent of the 35,100 applications received. Northwestern received a record number of 3,376 Early Decision applications, reflecting an increase of about 23 percent from last year.

Notre Dame: Notre Dame accepted a total of 3,600 students to the class of 2021 from a record pool of 19,565 applicants. 89 percent of the incoming students are among the top 10 percent of their high school class. The Middle 50% ACT score was 30-35. They admitted 1,470 early action applicants to the Class of 2021. 6,020 students applied for consideration under the Restricted Early Action program reflecting a 24.4 percent acceptance rate. Early applications were up 10 percent over last year.

Pitzer:  Class of 2021 admit data:

Admit Rate: 15.6%

Average GPA: 3.96
Students of Color: 44.2%
International Students: 10.6%
First Generation: 12.8%
In-State: 39%
Out-of-State: 61%
States Represented (including Washington, DC): 41

Pomona: Pomona received a record breaking 9,046 first-year applications for the Class of 2021. Of these applications, Pomona admitted 741 students, showcasing a selective 8.2 percent admit rate. 92 percent of the incoming students are among the top 10 percent of their high school class. The Middle 50% ACT score was 33. The mean composite SAT CR and SAT Math scores are 730 and 740, respectively.

Princeton University: Princeton University has offered admission to 1,890 students, or 6.1 percent of the record 31,056 applicants for the Class of 2021, in what is the most selective admission process to date. Last year, the admission rate was 6.46 percent. Of the students offered admission, 50.5 percent are women and 49.5 percent are men; 53.4 percent have self-identified as people of color and 18.9 percent will be the first in their families to attend college. The Middle 50 percent SAT CR was 680-760 and Middle 50 percent Math was 700-780. The Middle 50% ACT score was 31-35. Princeton University has offered admission to 770 students from a pool of 5,003 candidates who applied through single-choice early action for the Class of 2021. The pool was the largest in the last six years, representing an 18.3 percent increase over last year’s early applicant pool. The admission rate was 15.4 percent.  The class size is expected to be 1,308 students for the Class of 2021, as it was last year.

Stanford University: Stanford University has offered admission to the Class of 2021 to 2,050 students, or 4.65% of all applicants. The Class of 2021 was selected from 44,073 candidates, the largest applicant pool in Stanford’s history, eclipsing last years’ unprecedented 43,997 applications. This year, Stanford declined to release the number of candidates admitted in December through Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action program. We, however, believe this number to be stable and have utilized a comparable number for our estimates prepared in April 2017.  Based on current information, Stanford remains the most selective research university in the United States for undergraduates. The early acceptance rate for the Class of 2020 was 9.22 percent.  Last year, Stanford admitted 2,063 students out of 43,997 applicants for admission to the Class of 2020 for an overall admission rate of 4.69%.

Swarthmore: Swarthmore College has sent letters of admission to 960 members of the Class of 2021. 25 percent of the admitted students are among the first generation in their family to attend college, and 31 percent are affiliated with local and national community-based organizations like QuestBridge. 60 percent of the admitted students come from traditional public and public charter schools, 21 percent from private independent schools, 10 percent from parochial schools, and 8 percent from schools overseas. Swarthmore expects to yield a first-year class of about 405 for next fall.

Tufts: Tufts admitted 3,128 applicants to the Class of 2021. A total of 21,101 applications were received, resulting in an overall admission rate of 14.8 percent.

University of Michigan: The institution received a record 58,590 applications for the class of 2021, a 7 percent increase over last year and a record for the school for the 11th consecutive year. UMich has offered admissions to over 14,000 students. 10,959 applications were submitted by in-state students with 4,511 being offered admissions for an acceptance rate of 42.4 percent. 35,783 of the applications submitted by students living in other states and the 8,758 applicants living in other countries, 10,815 were offered admission for an out-of-state acceptance rate of 24.5 percent. The Middle 50 percent SAT CR was 680-750 and Middle 50 percent Math was 660-770. The Middle 50% ACT score was 31-34.

University of Pennsylvania: Of the 40,413 students who applied to Penn’s Class of 2021 in the early and regular rounds, 3,699 were admitted, leading to an overall acceptance rate of 9.15 percent. The applicant pool increased four percent from last year, continuing the trend of two to four percent increases every year. 13 percent are first-generation college students and 46 percent identify as students of color. The Middle 50 percent SAT CR was 680-750 and Middle 50 percent Math was 690-770. The Middle 50% ACT score was 32-35. Last year’s overall acceptance rate was 9.41 percent when Penn admitted a total of 3,661 students from 38,918 applications. Out of the total 3,669 admitted to the Class of 2021, 1,354 students were admitted through the early decision round.  The admission rate for the ED round was slightly above 22 percent with 6,147 applicants.

UT Austin: McCombs School of Business has an enrollment of 6,356 undergraduates for Fall 2016. The overall freshman admission rates for Fall 2015 are:
In-state applicants: 48%
​  Automatically admitted: 100%
Not automatically admitted: 18%
Out-of-state applicants: 27%

University of Vermont: The Class of 2021 boasts the highest average combined SAT scores and average GPA in school history. 13 percent of the incoming class are students of color — the second highest percentage in any UVM class. 17 percent of the students of color admitted to the university have joined the class, is the highest in UVM history. That is up from 12.4 percent last year. 14 percent of the incoming class are first-generation college students and hail from 47 states and 25 countries. Nearly 3,200 of the 12,000 students that applied early action application to UVM for the fall were accepted.

University of Virginia: 36,800 students applied to the University in 2017, a more than 13 percent increase over the total in 2016. The admitted students have a mean SAT score of 1,419 and nearly all are in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. The class includes students from all 50 states and 89 countries. Of those, more than 1,000 are first-generation college students and nearly 35 percent are members of a minority group.

Vanderbilt: Vanderbilt admitted 2,382 students from a pool of 27,841 Regular Decision applications to their Class of 2021. This represents an admit rate of 8.6 percent. 96 percent of the students were in the top ten percent of their graduating class.

Wake Forest: Wake Forest offered admission to only 25 percent of applicants, by far the lowest regular decision acceptance rate in history. They received 13,000 applications for the Class of 2021. 54 percent of the class is women. 34 percent are students of color. Wake Forest offered admission to 750 Early Decision applicants, 55 percent of the incoming class.

Wesleyan: Wesleyan University admitted 15.4 percent of applicants to the Class of 2021 from a total of 12,543 applicants. The applicant pool has risen 26 percent in the last two years, and greater than 3 percent over last year. 13 percent of all admits are international students, hailing from 70 countries. 39 percent are students of color, while 16 percent would be the first in their family to attend college.

Williams: Williams College has extended offers of admission to 1,253 applicants for the Class of 2021. They were selected from a total applicant pool of 8,593. Of the admitted students, 95 are international students representing 47 different nationalities. Among American students, 50 percent identify as students of color: 220 students are Asian American, 214 are black, 175 Latino, and 17 Native American. 37 percent identify as white and five percent opted not to identify. A total of 274, or 22 percent, are first-generation college students. Williams College has offered admission to 257 students under its Early Decision plan reflecting a 35 percent acceptance rate. These students make up nearly 47 percent of the incoming Class of 2021, whose ultimate target size is 550. 728 students applied, a 25 percent increase over last year and a record number for Early Decision.
MEAN TEST SCORES
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 722
SAT Math: 721
ACT Composite: 33

Yale University: Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions accepted 6.91 percent of the 32,900 students who applied to Yale. This represents a slight decrease from last year’s rate of 6.27 percent. The University accepted 300 more students than last year by offering admission to 2,272, up from 1,972 students last year. The incoming freshman class will be the largest in Yale history — with approximately 1550 students, 15 percent larger than recent classes. Students admitted to the class of 2021 represent all 50 states and 68 countries. The SCEA round accounted for 871 acceptances out of a pool of 5,086 applications.  This marks the sixth consecutive year that Yale’s acceptance rate has remained in the 6 percent range, after hovering around 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2011. Last year, Yale accepted 1,972 students to its Class of 2020 from a pool of 31,455. The increase in admissions accounts for the opening of two new dorms in the fall 2017, which will bring the incoming freshman class to  approximately 1550 students, or 15% larger than recent classes.

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