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Selective US Colleges and Universities - Admission Statistics 2005

School	Type of Early Acceptance (4)	Admit Rate Early Acceptance (High School '05, except where noted)	Admit Rate Regular Decision (High School '05, except where noted)	% in top 10 of HS class	General Admit Rate % Difference '05 vs '00

Harvard	SCEA	21%	9. 10%	90%	-2%
Yale	SCEA	18. 1%	9. 70%	95%	-6%
Columbia (1)	ED	23. 6%	10. 7%	88%	-3%
Princeton	ED	29. 1%	10. 9%	95%	0%
Stanford	SCEA	16. 1%	11. 9%	90%	-2%
MIT	EA	13. 50%	14. 2%	97%	-5%
Brown	ED	28%	14. 3%	87%	-3%
Dartmouth	ED	33. 3%	16. 8%	88%	-4%
Williams	ED	40%	18%	88%	-5%
Amherst	ED	34. 6%	18%	86%	-1%
Cal Tech	EA	10%	20%	99%	-2%
U Penn	ED	34. 2%	20. 8%	93%	-8%
Pomona	ED	35%	21%	84%	-11%
Claremont McKenna	ED I & II	N/A	21 .7% (HS'04)	N/A	-7% ('04 vs '99)
Duke	ED	31%	22%	90%	-6%
Georgetown	EA	22%	22%	83%	-2%
Wash U St Louis	ED	N/A	23%	91%	-11%
UC Berkeley (2)	N/A	N/A	24%	98%	-3%
Middlebury	ED	34%	24%	77%	-2%
Swarthmore	ED	49. 8%	22%	90%	0%
Cornell	ED	41. 7%	24. 3%	85%	-9%
Barnard	N/A	N/A	26. 9%	N/A	N/A
UCLA	N/A	N/A	27% (28% in-state; 21% out-of-state)	N/A	N/A
Tufts	ED I & II	39%	27%	72%	-9%
Wesleyan	ED I & II	44%	27. 5%	73%	-1.5%
NYU	ED	30%	28. 6%	71%	-3%
Vassar	ED I & II	44%	28. 70%	69%	-14%
Northwestern	ED	46%	30%	83%	-2%
USC	N/A	N/A	30%	80%	-7%
Johns Hopkins	ED	51%	30%	78%	-3%
U Chicago	EA	40%	35%	78%	-12%
Boston College	EA	25%	32%	73%	-3%
Wellesley	ED	68%	36%	62%	-10%
Emory	ED I & II	61%	38%	90%	-5%
UVA	ED	42. 5%	38%	85%	0%
Carnegie Mellon (3)	ED I & II	52% (HS'04)	39%	69% (HS'04)	3%
George Washington	ED I & II	50%	39%	84%	-10%
U Michigan (2)	N/A	N/A	56 .9%	90%	2%
Smith	ED	60%	57%	59%	1%

In 2005, Harvard received the highest number of applications in the university's history - 22,796 - and reported a record low admit rate of 9.1%.
In 2005, the number of applications at Harvard, Cornell, and Princeton increased 15.4%, 17.4% and 20.6% over 2004.
In the last 5 years, 7 of the 8 Ivy League schools have reported a decrease in admit rates: Brown by 3%, Columbia by 3%, Cornell by 9%, Dartmouth by 4%, Harvard by 2%, UPenn by 8%, and Yale by 6%.
68% of the valedictorians who applied to Brown's Class of 2009 were denied admission. Harvard rejected 50% of their valedictorian applicants.
For the past five years at the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) conferences, much discussion revolved around putting a moratorium on early decision or at least cutting back on the number of applicants who were admitted early. Many conference attendees think early decision is unfair to the students who are applying for financial aid, who cannot get their act together on time, who need to show mid-year grades or who need to take or re-take SAT I and SAT IIs.

Notes:
1. Data is for Columbia College at Columbia University. At the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the admit rate was 26.3%.
2. Admission rates at state universities (Berkeley, Michigan) may appear high for their competitiveness. This is due to automatic admission of in-state students who meet certain academic standards. Out-of-state admitted students tend to have higher grades and test scores.
3. Data is for admissions to all schools at CMU. The admit rates at the School of Computer Science and the Tepper School of Business ran at the 20-25% range.
4. SCEA=Single Choice Early Action; EA= Early Action; ED= Early Decision.

Source: compiled from various sources September 2005; sorted by lowest Regular Decision admit rates.

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