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Preliminary Admissions Statistics for the Class of 2009 (April 2005)
These statistics are the colleges' current preliminary estimates as reported in the universities' newspapers, university press releases, or by the admissions offices in early April 2005.
1Columbia statistics are for Columbia College only.
*Regular decision acceptance rates can be confusing as they are sometimes listed as strictly the number of regular decision acceptances/number of regular decision applicants. For most colleges, this regular decision pool includes a number (often a large number) of students who were deferred in the early round, and are then re-evaluated in the regular round, increasing the size of the applicant pool in this regular round, and effectively reducing what is commonly reported as the "regular decision acceptance rate." In the chart above, however, we are sticking to the commonly reported regular decision rates to avoid confusion since many schools' deferral statistics have not been released; so the column labeled Regular Decision Acceptance Rates does not account for the presence of deferred students in the regular pool. The text below, though, does note (when statistics are available), the regular decision rates including deferred students.
Brown – Class of 2009
- In total (including both early and regular decision), 16,907 students applied to Brown's Class of 2009 (a 10% increase from last year), and 2,463 were accepted, for an overall admissions rate of 14.6%.
- Early Decision: 2,030 students applied early decision for the Class of '09, and 569 were accepted – an early decision admissions rate of 28%.
- Regular Decision: 14,877 students applied regular decision to Brown, and 1894 were accepted. Not including deferred students, this is an acceptance rate of 12.7%. Including the ~1,156 students who were deferred after applying early decision, the regular decision admit rate was ~11.8%.
- 375 valedictorians were accepted for the Class of 2009, and over 90% of accepted students were in the top 10% of their high school class. Approximately 1,156 students were deferred to the regular decision round.
- 52% of accepted students are female; 48% are male.
Columbia – Class of 2009
- In total (including both early and regular decision), Columbia College received 15,790 applications, and offered admission to 1,638 students for an overall acceptance rate of 10.4% (a record low). Columbia College's total number of applicants increased by 5% from last year. The Fu School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) received 2,330 applications, and 612 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 26.3%.
- Barnard: Barnard admitted 1,194 or about 26.9% of a total of 4,427 applicants for the Class of 2009.
- Early Decision (Columbia College): A record 1,891 students applied early to Columbia College, and 438, or 23.2%, were admitted. SEAS received 265 early applications, which was also a record, and admitted 132, or 49.8%.
- Regular Decision (Columbia College): Approximately 13,900 students applied to Columbia regular decision, and 1,200 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 8.6% (data on the number of deferred students in the regular applicant pool is not yet available).
Cornell – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), Cornell received 24,444 applications, and offered admission to 6,384 students – so the overall acceptance rate was 26.1%. Cornell's total number of applicants increased by 17.4% from last year.
- Early Decision: Cornell received 2,572 early decision applications, and accepted 1,072, for an early decision acceptance rate of 41.7%.
- Regular Decision: The regular decision admit rate, not accounting for the presence of deferrals in the regular pool, was 24.3% -- of 21,872 regular decision applicants, 5,312 were admitted.
Dartmouth – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), Dartmouth received 12,756 applications, and offered admission to 2,149 students for an overall acceptance rate of 16.8% (a record low).
- Early Decision: Dartmouth received 1,171 early decision applications, and accepted 397, producing an early decision acceptance rate of 33.6%. For accepted early decision students, the mean SAT Verbal score was 711 and the mean SAT Math score was 719. 31% of the early admits were recruited athletes, and 16.1% were legacies. 28% were valedictorians, and 11% were salutatorians.
- Regular Decision: Dartmouth received approximately 11,585 regular decision applicants, and 1,752 students were accepted regular decision. Not including deferred students, this is an acceptance rate of 15.1%. Including the ~390 students who were deferred after applying early decision, the regular decision admit rate was ~14.6%.
- 1200 students were put on the waitlist, and it is expected that about 600 will choose to remain on the waitlist.
Harvard – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), Harvard received 22,796 applications, and 2,074 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 9.1%.
- SINGLE CHOICE EARLY ACTION: Harvard received 4140 single choice early action applications (a 7.2% increase from last year), and accepted ~885, deferred ~3120, and rejected ~135 – so the early action acceptance rate was 21.4%.
- Regular Decision: Approximately 18,660 students applied to Harvard's regular decision program, and 1,189 were accepted, a regular decision acceptance rate of 6.4%. Including the 3,120 deferred SCEA students who became part of the regular decision candidate pool yields a regular decision acceptance rate of approximately 5.5%.
- 1,047 of the admitted students were men, and 1,027 were women.
- Together, foreign citizens, U.S. dual citizens, and U.S. permanent residents make up 16.6% of the Class of 2009.
UPenn – Class of 2009
- In total for Penn's Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), a record 18,749 students applied, and 3,912 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 20.9%.
- The breakdown of Penn's application volume was as follows: 12,305 applicants for the College, an increase of 251; 3,409 for the Wharton School, an increase of 280; and 2,713 for the School of Engineering and Applied Science, an increase of 19. The only school that did not see an increase in applications was Nursing, which at 297 had 28 fewer applications than last year.
- Early Decision: Penn received an all-time high of 3420 early decision applications, and admitted 1170, or 34%. Approximately 29.7% of early applicants were deferred, and the remainder were rejected.
- Regular Decision: 2,579 of the 15,403 applicants were accepted – an acceptance rate of 17.9% (without including deferred students as part of the candidate pool). Including the ~1,015 deferred students as part of the regular decision pool yields a regular decision acceptance rate of 16.8%.
- 1,297 students were waitlisted.
Princeton – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), a record 16,516 students applied to Princeton, and 1,807 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 10.9% (Princeton's lowest acceptance rate ever was 9.9% for the Class of 2007).
- Early Decision: Princeton received 2,039 early decision applications, and accepted 593 of these students, for an early decision acceptance rate of 29.1%.
- Regular Decision: 1,214 students were accepted out of the 14,477 that applied regular decision – a roughly 8.4% acceptance rate for early decision, not including deferred students. Given, however, that Princeton only rejects about 100 students during the early round each year, preferring to defer the vast majority of the early applicants, these ~1300 deferred students increase the size of the regular pool, and reduce the regular decision acceptance rate to about 7.7%.
Yale – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), 19,448 students applied to Yale, and 1,880 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 9.7% (a record low, breaking last year's record low rate of 9.9%).
- Regular Decision: Yale accepted 1,170 students from a regular decision applicant pool of 15,522 – not including deferred early action applicants, the regular decision acceptance rate was 7.5%. However, including the approximately 1900 deferred students from the early action pool as part of the regular decision candidate pool shows a regular decision acceptance rate of 6.7%.
- SINGLE CHOICE EARLY ACTION: Yale accepted 710 of the 3,926 students who applied through its single choice early action program -- an acceptance rate of 18.1%.
- About 1,000 students were waitlisted this year.
- Yale expects a slightly higher yield this year (last year's yield was 68%) as a result of its new financial aid policy through which there is no parent contribution required for students whose families earn under $45,000, and a reduced parent contribution for students whose families earn between $45,000 and $60,000.
MIT – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early action and regular decision), 10,439 students applied to MIT, and 1,495 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 14.3% which is a record low.
- Early Action: MIT admitted 13.5% of the 2,830 students who applied through its early action program; MIT denied only 50 students and deferred the rest of the early applicants.
- Regular Decision: Regular Decision: 1,113 students were accepted out of the 7,609 that applied regular decision – a roughly 14.6% acceptance rate for early decision, not including deferred students. Given, however, that MIT only rejected about 50 students during the early round, and deferred 2,400, it is more practical to look at the regular admissions pool as having a total of ~10,000 students, so that the regular decision acceptance rate including deferred students was about 11.1%.
- 49 percent of the admits were female; 51% were male.
Stanford – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early action and regular decision), 20,194 students applied to Stanford, and 2,412 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 11.9%. This was the first time in University history that more than 20,000 students applied to Stanford.
- SINGLE CHOICE EARLY ACTION: Stanford accepted 847 of the 4,330 students who applied through its single choice early action program -- an acceptance rate of 20%.
- Regular Decision: Stanford received 15,864 regular decision applicants and accepted 1,545 – an acceptance rate of 9.74%. Statistics on how many students are deferred are not disclosed by Stanford – though they note that they reject over half of the early applicants, preferring to give students who apply early an answer in December, rather than deferring them.
UC Berkeley – Class of 2009
- In total, UC Berkeley received 36,725 applications from California, out-of-state and international students - 195 fewer than for fall 2003. The overall admit rate for fall 2004 was 24.2 percent, up from 23.6 percent for fall 2003.
- The admission rate for California residents remained largely the same as last year, 25.4 percent for students admitted for fall 2004 compared to 25.3 percent for fall 2003. California residents make up 86.8 percent of the class, down from 87.6 percent for fall 2003.
- Out-of-state students represent 10.9 percent of next fall's admitted freshman class, up from 10.2 percent for fall 2003. International students represent 2.4 percent of the class, up from 2.2 percent in fall 2003.
- Women represent 55 percent of the admitted students; men, 45 percent.
Duke – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), 18,062 students applied to Duke, and 3,949 were admitted – an acceptance rate of ~21.9%.
- Early Decision: Duke accepted 465 of the 1,494 students who applied through its single choice early action program -- an acceptance rate of ~31.1%.
- Regular Decision: 16,568 students applied to Duke in the regular decision round, and 3,484 were accepted – an acceptance rate of 21%. Including the ~770 deferred students in the regular decision candidate pool decreases the regular decision acceptance rate to ~20%.
- Several admissions statistics broke records this year: the total number of applications, which surpassed last year's pool by ~1,300 students; the number of applications received for Trinity College (almost 15,000 applications); and the number of applications from international students (1,825 applications, an increase of 27 percent over last year).
Georgetown – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early action and regular decision), 15,274 students applied to Georgetown, and 3,199 were admitted – an overall acceptance rate of 20.9%
- Early Action: Georgetown received 4,003 early action applications, and accepted just over 900 of these students, for an early admit rate of 22.7%
- Regular Decision: Georgetown received 11,271 regular decision applications, and accepted 2,290 – an acceptance rate of 20.3%
Notre Dame – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early action and regular decision), 11,316 students applied to Notre Dame, and 3,478 were admitted – an overall acceptance rate of 30.7%.
- Early Action: Notre Dame accepted 1,362 of the 2,800 students who applied through its early action program -- an acceptance rate of 48.6%.
- Regular Decision: Notre Dame received 8,516 regular decision applicants and accepted 2,178 – a regular decision acceptance rate of 25.6%.
- The average SAT score of all admitted students was 1312, and the average ACT score was 29 – both figures were the highest test score averages Notre Dame has ever seen in an admitted class.
UVA – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early action and regular decision), 15,884 students applied to UVA, and 5,758 were admitted – an acceptance rate of ~36%.
- Early Decision: Of the 2,317 students who applied under UVA's early decision program, 985, or 42.5%, were offered a place in UVA's Class of 2009. 1,082 students were deferred to the regular round.
- Regular Decision: Approximately 13,570 students applied under UVA's regular decision program, and 35.5% or ~4,770 were admitted. Accounting for the students who were deferred from the early round in the regular round (1,082), the regular acceptance rate is approximately 32.6%.
- 3,000 students were waitlisted.
Amherst – Class of 2009
- Amherst received a total of 6,274 applications for its Class of 2009, and accepted 1,173 – an overall acceptance rate of 18.7%.
- Early Decision: 367 students applied early decision to Amherst, and 128 were accepted – an acceptance rate of 35%.
- Regular Decision: Over 89% of applicants applied through Amherst's regular decision program. 5,907 students applied, and 1,045 were offered admission – for a regular decision acceptance rate of 17.7%.
- Continuing a trend of increasing SAT scores, the average verbal SAT score of accepted students was 736, and the average math SAT score was 726.
Williams – Class of 2009
- In total for the Class of 2009 (including both early and regular decision), 5,817 students applied to Williams, and 1,073 were admitted – an acceptance rate of 18.4%. This was the largest applicant pool in the College's history.
- Early Decision: Williams accepted 209 of the 529 students who applied through its early decision program -- an acceptance rate of 39.5%.
- Regular Decision: 5,288 students applied to Williams in the regular decision round, and 16.3%, or 864 were accepted.
- Average SAT of accepted regular decision students rose 7 points from last year to 1449 (728 V, 721 M); average SAT of early decision students was 1417.
- Almost 70% of students for whom athletics was a factor in the admissions decision making process were admitted early decision.
- 122 legacies were admitted.
- 52% of admitted students are female; 48% male.
- Approximately 500 students were waitlisted; last year they took 51 off the waitlist.
Swarthmore – Class of 2009
- Swarthmore received a total of 4,085 applications for its Class of 2009, and accepted 900 – an overall acceptance rate of 22%.
- Early Decision: 321 students applied early decision to Swarthmore, and 160 were accepted – an acceptance rate of 49.8%.
- Regular Decision: 3,764 students applied under Swarthmore's regular decision program, and 740 were offered admission – for a regular decision acceptance rate of 19.7%.
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