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Early Acceptance Rates for the Class of 2024 at the Nation’s Top Colleges

Posted on: January 17, 2020 by: dee

If you are in the process of applying to college, you likely already know that schools released their early acceptance decisions in mid-December. By now students who applied early action or early decision will have either been accepted, rejected, or deferred to the regular admissions cycle. (For more information about early action and early decision, see this earlier blog post).

Unsurprisingly, it was another competitive cycle. In fact, some selective colleges reported a record-high number of early applications, and thus a record-low early acceptance rate.

Here are the early acceptance rates for the top 30 U.S. universities and colleges that offer an early action or decision program, in order of their national rankings:

Princeton University – rate not published
Harvard University – 13.9% admitted
Columbia University – rate not published
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 7.4% admitted
Yale University – 13.8% admitted
Stanford University – rate not published
University of Chicago – rate not published
University of Pennsylvania – 19.7% admitted
Northwestern University – rate not published
Duke University – 21% admitted
Johns Hopkins University – 28% admitted
California Institute of Technology – rate not published
Dartmouth College – 26.4% admitted
Brown University – 17.5% admitted
University of Notre Dame – rate not published
Vanderbilt University – rate not published
Cornell University – 23.8% admitted
Rice University – rate not published
Washington University in St. Louis – rate not published
Emory University – 40.3% admitted
Georgetown University – 11.7% admitted
Carnegie Mellon University – rate not published
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor – rate not published
Wake Forest University – rate not published
University of Virginia – 34.7% admitted
Georgia Institute of Technology – rate not published
New York University – rate not published
Tufts University – rate not published
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill – rate not published
University of Rochester – rate not published

The above is based on data available as of January 17, and we will continue to update it as new information becomes available.

Congratulations to everyone who was accepted early, and good luck to those of you who are still awaiting a final decision!

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