Admission Statistics for the Class of 2017
© 2013 Top Tier Admissions and Christian Termont of EERA
Ivy League — Class of 2017
| IVIES | Overall | Early Round | Estimated Regular Decision | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % |
| Brown | 2,649 | 28,919 | 9.16 | 558 | 3,010 | 18.54 | 2,091 | 25,909 | 8.07 |
| Columbia | 2,311 | 33,531 | 6.89 | 600 | 3,126 | 19.19 | 1,711 | 30,405 | 5.63 |
| Cornell | 6,062 | 40,006 | 15.15 | 1,237 | 4,193 | 29.50 | 4,825 | 35,813 | 13.47 |
| Dartmouth | 2,252 | 22,416 | 10.05 | 464 | 1,574 | 29.48 | 1,788 | 20,842 | 8.58 |
| Harvard | 2,029 | 35,023 | 5.79 | 895 | 4,856 | 18.43 | 1,134 | 30,167 | 3.76 |
| Penn | 3,785 | 31,280 | 12.10 | 1,196 | 4,812 | 24.85 | 2,589 | 26,468 | 9.78 |
| Princeton | 1,931 | 26,498 | 7.29 | 697 | 3,810 | 18.29 | 1,234 | 22,688 | 5.44 |
| Yale | 1,991 | 29,610 | 6.72 | 649 | 4,520 | 14.36 | 1,342 | 25,090 | 5.35 |
| Total Ivies | 23,010 | 247,283 | 9.31 | 6,296 | 29,901 | 21.06 | 16,714 | 217,382 | 7.69 |
Ivy League — Classes of 2015-2017
| IVIES | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % |
| Brown | 2,649 | 28,919 | 9.16 | 2,760 | 28,742 | 9.60 | 2,757 | 30,944 | 8.91 |
| Columbia | 2,311 | 33,531 | 6.89 | 2,363 | 31,851 | 7.42 | 2,419 | 34,929 | 6.93 |
| Cornell | 6,062 | 40,006 | 15.15 | 6,123 | 37,812 | 16.19 | 6,538 | 36,387 | 17.97 |
| Dartmouth | 2,252 | 22,416 | 10.05 | 2,180 | 23,110 | 9.43 | 2,270 | 22,385 | 10.14 |
| Harvard | 2,029 | 35,023 | 5.79 | 2,032 | 34,302 | 5.92 | 2,188 | 34,950 | 6.26 |
| Penn | 3,785 | 31,280 | 12.10 | 3,846 | 31,217 | 12.32 | 3,935 | 31,663 | 12.43 |
| Princeton | 1,931 | 26,498 | 7.29 | 2,095 | 26,664 | 7.86 | 2,300 | 27,189 | 8.46 |
| Yale | 1,991 | 29,610 | 6.72 | 1,975 | 28,974 | 6.82 | 2,109 | 27,283 | 7.73 |
| Total Ivies | 23,010 | 247,283 | 9.31 | 23,374 | 242,673 | 9.63 | 24,516 | 245,730 | 9.98 |
MIT and Stanford — Class 2017
| MIT + Stanford | Overall | Early Round | Estimated Regular Decision |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % |
| Stanford | 2,210 | 38,828 | 5.69 | 725 | 6,103 | 11.88 | 1,485 | 32,726 | 4.54 |
| MIT | 1,548 | 18,989 | 8.15 | 650 | 6,541 | 9.94 | 898 | 12,448 | 7.21 |
| Total | 3,758 | 57,818 | 6.50 | 1,375 | 12,644 | 10.87 | 2,383 | 45,174 | 5.28 |
MIT and Stanford — Classes of 2015-2017
| MIT + Stanford | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-2015 | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % |
| Stanford | 2,210 | 38,828 | 5.69 | 2,427 | 36,631 | 6.63 | 2,437 | 34,348 | 7.10 |
| MIT | 1,548 | 18,989 | 8.15 | 1,620 | 18,109 | 8.95 | 1,715 | 17,909 | 9.58 |
| Total | 3,758 | 57,818 | 6.50 | 4,047 | 54,740 | 7.39 | 4,152 | 52,257 | 7.95 |
Ivies Plus© — Class of 2017
| IVIES + MS | Overall | Early Round | Estimated Regular Decision | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % |
| Ivies | 23,010 | 247,283 | 9.31 | 6,296 | 29,901 | 21.06 | 16,714 | 217,382 | 7.69 |
| MIT + Stanford | 3,758 | 57,818 | 6.50 | 1,375 | 12,644 | 10.87 | 2,383 | 45,174 | 5.28 |
| Total | 26,768 | 305,100 | 8.77 | 7,671 | 42,545 | 18.03 | 19,097 | 262,556 | 7.27 |
Ivies Plus© — Classes of 2015-2017
| IVIES +MS | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-2017 | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % |
| Ivies | 23,010 | 247,283 | 9.31 | 23,374 | 242,673 | 9.63 | 24,516 | 245,730 | 9.98 |
| MIT + Stanford | 3,758 | 57,818 | 6.50 | 4,047 | 54,740 | 7.39 | 4,152 | 52,257 | 7.95 |
| Total | 26,768 | 305,101 | 8.77 | 27,421 | 297,413 | 9.22 | 28,668 | 297,987 | 9.62 |
Ivies Plus© — Volume of Applications — From 2012 to 2017
| Change in Volume Applications |
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | 28,919 | 28,742 | 30,944 | 30,135 | 24,988 | 20,633 |
| Columbia | 33,531 | 31,851 | 34,929 | 26,178 | 25,427 | 22,585 |
| Cornell | 40,006 | 37,812 | 36,387 | 36,337 | 34,371 | 33,073 |
| Dartmouth | 22,416 | 23,110 | 22,385 | 18,778 | 18,132 | 16,538 |
| Harvard | 35,023 | 34,303 | 34,950 | 30,489 | 29,114 | 27,462 |
| Penn | 31,280 | 31,217 | 31,663 | 26,941 | 22,808 | 22,922 |
| Princeton | 26,498 | 26,664 | 27,189 | 26,247 | 21,963 | 21,369 |
| Yale | 29,610 | 28,974 | 27,283 | 25,869 | 26,003 | 22,813 |
| Stanford | 38,829 | 36,631 | 34,348 | 32,022 | 30,429 | 25,298 |
| MIT | 18,989 | 18,109 | 17,909 | 16,632 | 15,663 | 13,396 |
| Total | 305,101 | 297,413 | 297,987 | 269,628 | 248,898 | 226,089 |
Ivies Plus© — Changes in Volume of Applications – From 2012 to 2017
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| Brown | 0.62% | -7.12% | 2.68% | 20.60% | 21.11% | 40.16% |
| Columbia | 5.27% | -8.81% | 33.43% | 2.95% | 12.58% | 48.47% |
| Cornell | 5.80% | 3.92% | 0.14% | 5.72% | 3.92% | 20.96% |
| Dartmouth | -3.00% | 3.24% | 19.21% | 3.56% | 9.64% | 35.54% |
| Harvard | 2.10% | -1.85% | 14.63% | 4.72% | 6.02% | 27.53% |
| Penn | 0.20% | -1.41% | 17.53% | 18.12% | -0.50% | 36.46% |
| Princeton | -0.62% | -1.93% | 3.59% | 19.51% | 2.78% | 24.00% |
| Yale | 2.20% | 6.20% | 5.47% | -0.52% | 13.98% | 29.79% |
| Stanford | 6.00% | 6.65% | 7.26% | 5.24% | 20.28% | 53.49% |
| MIT | 4.86% | 1.12% | 7.68% | 6.19% | 16.92% | 41.75% |
| Total | 2.58% | -0.19% | 10.52% | 8.33% | 10.09% | 34.95% |
Ivies Plus© — Historical Admits – From 2012 to 2017
| Historical Admits and Admit Rates |
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | 2,649 | 2,760 | 2,757 | 2,815 | 2,790 | 2,828 |
| Columbia | 2,311 | 2,363 | 2,419 | 2,472 | 2,501 | 2,418 |
| Cornell | 6,062 | 6,123 | 6,538 | 6,673 | 6,565 | 6,834 |
| Dartmouth | 2,252 | 2,180 | 2,270 | 2,193 | 2,279 | 2,228 |
| Harvard | 2,029 | 2,032 | 2,188 | 2,205 | 2,175 | 2,175 |
| Penn | 3,785 | 3,846 | 3,935 | 3,841 | 4,040 | 3,769 |
| Princeton | 1,931 | 2,095 | 2,300 | 2,311 | 2,209 | 1,976 |
| Yale | 1,991 | 1,975 | 2,109 | 2,039 | 1,958 | 1,892 |
| Stanford | 2,210 | 2,427 | 2,437 | 2,340 | 2,426 | 2,400 |
| MIT | 1,548 | 1,620 | 1,715 | 1,676 | 1,676 | 1,554 |
| Total | 26,768 | 27,421 | 28,668 | 28,565 | 28,619 | 28,074 |
Ivies Plus© — Historical Admit Rates – From 2012 to 2017
| Historical Admits and Admit Rates |
Admit Rate 2017 |
Admit Rate 2016 |
Admit Rate 2015 |
Admit Rate 2014 |
Admit Rate 2013 |
Admit Rate 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | 9.16% | 9.60% | 8.91% | 9.34% | 11.17% | 13.71% |
| Columbia | 6.89% | 7.42% | 6.93% | 9.44% | 9.84% | 10.71% |
| Cornell | 15.15% | 16.19% | 17.97% | 18.36% | 19.10% | 20.66% |
| Dartmouth | 10.05% | 9.43% | 10.14% | 11.68% | 12.57% | 13.47% |
| Harvard | 5.79% | 5.92% | 6.26% | 7.23% | 7.47% | 7.92% |
| Penn | 12.10% | 12.32% | 12.43% | 14.26% | 17.71% | 16.44% |
| Princeton | 7.29% | 7.86% | 8.46% | 8.80% | 10.06% | 9.25% |
| Yale | 6.72% | 6.82% | 7.73% | 7.88% | 7.53% | 8.29% |
| Stanford | 5.69% | 6.63% | 7.10% | 7.31% | 7.97% | 9.49% |
| MIT | 8.15% | 8.95% | 9.58% | 10.08% | 10.70% | 11.60% |
| Total | 8.77% | 9.22% | 9.62% | 10.59% | 11.50% | 12.42% |
Review of Ivy League Plus Stanford and MIT
Class of 2017 — Entering Fall 2013
BROWN
Brown University admitted 2,649 students to the Class of 2017, with 558 through early decision. 28,919 applications were received for regular and early decision admissions slots, an increase over last year’s pool of 28,742 applications. The rates of acceptance were 9.16 percent for the combined rounds and 18.6 percent for the Early Decision round only. Last year, for the Class of 2016, Brown University admitted 2,760 students out of the 28,742 applications it received.
COLUMBIA
For the Class of 2017 accepted 2,311 from 33,531 applications. The acceptance rate of 6.9 percent was slightly below the previous 7.4 percent when Columbia admitted 2,363 students. In this admission cycle, Columbia received 3,120 early decision applications and accepted about 600 students for an admission rate just below 20 percent. In its third year of using the Common Application, Columbia remained below the number of applications of 2011.
CORNELL
According to its Office of Admissions and Enrollment, Cornell has received an all-time high of 40,006 applications for freshman admission to the Class of 2017, a 5.8 percent increase over 2012, when 37,812 applications were received. The overall admit rate reported by Cornell is 15.2 percent, slightly down from last year’s admit rate of 16.2 percent. Cornell admitted 6,062 applicants with 4,825 regular decision applicants and 1,237 Early Decision applicants. Cornell admitted over 29 percent of Early Decision applicants, but only accepted 13.5 percent of applicants for regular admissions.
DARTMOUTH
Dartmouth College extended offers of admission to 2,252 applicants for its Class of 2017, from a pool of 22,416. The acceptance rate of 10 percent represents an increase from the 9.4 percent last year. The total number of accepted students includes the 464 admitted through the early decision process in December. Last year, Dartmouth College accepted 2,180 applicants for its Class of 2016.
HARVARD
For its Class of 2017, Harvard received a total of 35,023 applications compared to 34,302 for the Class of 2016. The school admitted 2,029 students resulting in an overall admissions rate of 5.79 percent, which is the lowest in Harvard’s history. In the early round, Harvard University received 4,856 applications and accepted 895, for an admit rate of 18.43% of its SCEA applicant pool. The regular decision acceptance rate dipped below 4 percent.
MIT
MIT admitted 1,548 students out of 18,989 applicants for the Class of 2017, for an acceptance rate of 8.15 percent. In its early round, MIT admitted 650 students out of 6,541 applications, the lowest rate of acceptance in an early round among its peer group composed of the Ivy League and Stanford. In 2012, MIT admitted 1,620 students out of 18,109 applicants for the Class of 2016.
PRINCETON
For the Class of 2017, Princeton admitted 1,931 applicants for an admission rate of 7.3 percent. Princeton University received 3,810 early action applications and accepted 697 applicants. Last year, Princeton University admitted 7.9% of the 26,664 applicants received as the school offered admission to 2,095 students.
STANFORD
Stanford University received an unprecedented 38,838 (up from 36,631) applications and offered admission to 2,210 applicants for its undergraduate Class of 2017. The figure, which includes 725 candidates admitted in December through Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action program, represents an admission rate of below 5.69 percent. This rate, the most competitive in the university’s history, is also the lowest in the nation. The early acceptance rate for the Class of 2017 was below 12 percent. Last year, Stanford admitted 2,427 students out of 36,631 applicants for admission to the Class of 2016 for an overall admission rate of 6.6%.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
For the Class of 2017, Penn admitted a total of 3,785 students from 31,280 applications. Penn’s overall acceptance rate was 12.1 percent, a slight decrease over previous years. Out of the total 3,785 admitted, 1,196 students were admitted through the early decision round. The admission rate for the ED round was slightly below 25 percent. Last year, the University of Pennsylvania accepted 12.3 percent of the 31,217 applications it received for the Class of 2016.
YALE
Yale accepted 1,991 students to its Class of 2017 from a record pool of 29,610 this year, compared to 1,975 out of 28,974 last year. The admission rate for the Class of 2017 was 6.72 percent. The SCEA round accounted for 649 acceptances out of a pool of 4,520 applications.
Other Selective Universities
| Universities | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | |
| Caltech | 584 | 5,535 | 10.55 | 651 | 5,537 | 11.76 | 667 | 5,225 | 2.77 |
| Carnegie Mellon | 4,662 | 18,879 | 24.69 | 4,807 | 17,313 | 27.77 | 5,030 | 16,527 | 30.44 |
| Chicago | 2,676 | 30,369 | 8.81 | 3,344 | 25,277 | 13.23 | 3,539 | 21,762 | 16.26 |
| Duke | 3,682 | 31,785 | 11.58 | 3,751 | 31,600 | 11.87 | 3,739 | 28,145 | 13.99 |
| Emory | 4,592 | 17,698 | 25.95 | 4,539 | 17,502 | 25.93 | 4,548 | 17,027 | 26.71 |
| Georgetown | 3,293 | 19,900 | 16.55 | 3,316 | 20,100 | 16.50 | 3,468 | 19,254 | 18.07 |
| Johns Hopkins | 3,465 | 20,614 | 16.81 | 3,636 | 20,496 | 17.74 | 3,576 | 19,391 | 18.44 |
| Northwestern | 4,555 | 32,772 | 13.90 | 4,895 | 32,065 | 15.27 | 5,575 | 30,926 | 18.03 |
| Notre Dame | 3,850 | 16,952 | 22.71 | 3,947 | 16,957 | 23.28 | 4,019 | 16,548 | 24.29 |
| Tufts | 3,450 | 18,420 | 18.73 | 3,500 | 16,378 | 21.37 | 3,743 | 17,104 | 21.88 |
| UC Berkeley | 14,101 | 67,691 | 20.83 | 13,038 | 61,702 | 21.13 | 13,523 | 52,953 | 25.54 |
| UC Davis | 21,998 | 55,895 | 39.36 | 22,538 | 49,416 | 45.61 | 21,074 | 45,825 | 45.99 |
| UC San Diego | 24,782 | 67,407 | 36.76 | 22,939 | 60,838 | 37.71 | 18,212 | 53,461 | 34.07 |
| UC Santa Barbara | 24,248 | 62,416 | 38.85 | 23,803 | 54,831 | 43.41 | 22,386 | 49,033 | 45.65 |
| UCLA | 16,177 | 80,494 | 20.10 | 15,455 | 72,657 | 21.27 | 15,689 | 61,528 | 25.50 |
| UNC Chapel Hill | 7,806 | 30,815 | 25.33 | 7,596 | 28,491 | 26.66 | 7,469 | 22,652 | 32.97 |
| USC | 9,304 | 47,285 | 19.68 | 8,381 | 46,030 | 18.21 | 8,566 | 37,210 | 23.02 |
| Vanderbilt | 3,717 | 31,056 | 11.97 | 3,757 | 28,335 | 13.26 | 4,078 | 24,837 | 16.42 |
| Virginia | 8,528 | 29,005 | 29.40 | 7,759 | 27,200 | 28.53 | 7,750 | 24,010 | 32.28 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 4,520 | 30,117 | 15.01 | 4,873 | 27,265 | 17.87 | 4,763 | 28,823 | 16.52 |
Liberal Arts Colleges
| Liberal Arts | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | Admit | Applied | % | |
| Amherst | 1,084 | 7,927 | 13.67% | 1,020 | 8,555 | 11.92% | 1,127 | 8,461 | 13.32% |
| Barnard | 1,151 | 5,606 | 20.53% | 1,141 | 5,440 | 20.97% | 1,282 | 5,153 | 24.88% |
| Bates | 1,240 | 5,243 | 23.65% | 1,236 | 4,906 | 25.19% | 1,405 | 5,196 | 27.04% |
| Bowdoin | 1,021 | 7,052 | 14.48% | 1,060 | 6,716 | 15.78% | 1,056 | 6,554 | 16.11% |
| Carleton | 1,475 | 7,030 | 20.98% | 1,496 | 5,850 | 25.57% | 1,546 | 4,988 | 30.99% |
| Claremont McKenna | 645 | 5,509 | 11.71% | 628 | 5,056 | 12.42% | 623 | 4,481 | 13.90% |
| Colgate | 2,172 | 8,370 | 25.95% | 2,242 | 7,795 | 28.76% | 2,305 | 7,836 | 29.42% |
| Colby | 1,403 | 5,407 | 25.95% | 1,508 | 5,234 | 28.81% | 1,527 | 5,186 | 29.44% |
| Dickinson | 2,574 | 5,820 | 44.23% | 2,323 | 5,843 | 39.76% | 2,543 | 6,063 | 41.94% |
| Hamilton | 1,361 | 5,017 | 27.13% | 1,386 | 5,107 | 27.14% | 1,441 | 5,265 | 27.37% |
| Haverford | 835 | 3,590 | 23.26% | 830 | 3,626 | 22.89% | 870 | 3,470 | 25.07% |
| Kenyon | 1,551 | 4,050 | 38.30% | 1,424 | 3,948 | 36.07% | 1,429 | 4,274 | 33.43% |
| Macalaster | 2,284 | 6,683 | 34.18% | 2,098 | 6,031 | 34.79% | 2,137 | 6,111 | 34.97% |
| Middlebury | 1,750 | 9,112 | 19.21% | 1,635 | 8,849 | 18.48% | 1,563 | 8,533 | 18.32% |
| Pitzer | 597 | 4,105 | 14.54% | 663 | 4,227 | 15.68% | 903 | 3,743 | 24.13% |
| Pomona | 922 | 7,153 | 12.89% | 956 | 7,457 | 12.82% | 1,011 | 7,207 | 14.03% |
| Smith | 1,848 | 4,401 | 41.99% | 1,819 | 4,341 | 41.90% | 1,877 | 4,128 | 45.47% |
| Swarthmore | 929 | 6,614 | 14.05% | 929 | 6,589 | 14.10% | 987 | 6,547 | 15.08% |
| Vassar | 1,752 | 7,597 | 23.06% | 1,778 | 7,908 | 22.48% | 1,798 | 7,985 | 22.52% |
| Wellesley | 1,350 | 4,794 | 28.16% | 1,349 | 4,548 | 29.66% | 1,362 | 4,400 | 30.95% |
| Wesleyan | 2,126 | 10,974 | 19.37% | 2,073 | 10,503 | 19.74% | 2,340 | 9,658 | 24.23% |
| Williams | 1,157 | 6,853 | 16.88% | 1,182 | 7,067 | 16.73% | 1,215 | 7,030 | 17.28% |
