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 […]
Posted on: 22 Jul 2026
Princeton enrolled 5,321 undergraduates in the fall of 2021 and 5,916 in the fall of 2025. That gain of nearly 600 students is close to the population of a full residential college, and Princeton opened two of them, Yeh College and New College West, in the fall of 2022 to make room. Over the same […]
Posted on: 20 Jul 2026
Industrial engineering is the discipline of optimization, the systematic design, analysis, and improvement of integrated systems of people, machines, materials, information, and energy. Where other engineering disciplines focus primarily on what to build, industrial engineering asks how to build it better, faster, and at lower cost, and how to deploy complex systems at scale while […]