Posted on: 30 Jul 2026
Picture a student sitting down in October to decide whether to apply to Tufts under early decision. The commitment is binding, it arrives before any aid offer, and the sensible first move is to find out what the early round is actually worth. Until this year, Tufts gave that student nothing to work with. The […]
Posted on: 29 Jul 2026
What is Carnegie Mellon’s acceptance rate? The answer is 11.07 percent for the Fall 2025 entering class, and for almost every applicant asking the question, that number is close to worthless. Carnegie Mellon does not admit students to Carnegie Mellon. It admits them to the School of Computer Science, the College of Engineering, the Mellon […]
Posted on: 28 Jul 2026
Harvard received 47,893 applications for the class that entered in Fall 2025. Three cycles earlier, for the class that entered in Fall 2022, it received 61,221. The gap between those two figures is 13,328 applications, and it opened across three consecutive years of decline with no year of recovery in between. Selectivity moved with it. […]
Posted on: 28 Jul 2026
Duke admitted more first-year students to the Fall 2023 entering class than to any other class in the past five years, and it did so in the one cycle when its applicant pool shrank. Applications fell from 49,523 for Fall 2021 to 46,366 for Fall 2023. Admits rose from 2,911 to 3,145. The admit rate […]
Posted on: 27 Jul 2026
Nearly seven out of eight students MIT admits decide to attend. In an admissions world where the most selective private universities fight over cross-admits and count a 45 percent yield as strong, MIT enrolled 86.4 percent of its admitted students for Fall 2025. That number has not dropped below 84 percent in five years, and […]
Posted on: 23 Jul 2026
What does it mean when a university’s acceptance rate goes up for three years running? At Villanova, it means the admissions office is working harder to fill a class that has barely changed in size. The rate bottomed at 23.4 percent for Fall 2022 and has climbed every year since, reaching 28.1 percent for Fall […]
Posted on: 23 Jul 2026
The standard explanation for a falling acceptance rate is a flood of new applications. More students apply, the class stays the same size, the percentage drops. At Vanderbilt, that explanation does not hold. The university received 47,152 first-year applications for Fall 2021 and 48,196 for Fall 2025, an increase of about 2 percent over four […]
Posted on: 22 Jul 2026
Picture a high school senior with a 1580 SAT, a stack of fives on her AP exams, and her heart set on studying computer science at Berkeley. At almost any other top university, that score anchors her application. At Berkeley, no one will ever see it. The university has not looked at an SAT or […]