Class of 2028 Admission Rates
Students navigating the college admissions process continue to experience unique challenges and changes, including the announcement of an entirely digital SAT, continued test-optional policies, increasing application numbers, and each student applying to more colleges on average. All of this has led to an even more competitive year at the most selective colleges in the U.S., while other schools plan to admit more students than ever before in order to manage enrollment numbers.
Class of 2028 Application Numbers
The college admissions landscape continues to be competitive at the country’s most popular universities, with many schools posting record-high application numbers for the class of 2028. Schools like Northeastern University (98,373), Yale (57,512), Virginia Tech (52,365), and Bowdoin (13,200) all reported their largest applicant pools ever, with some schools like Dartmouth College seeing record-high numbers of students applying Early Decision or Early Action. With large applicant pools, it is likely we will see admission rates at these schools remain low or even decrease. This also might lead to more waitlist decisions, as colleges continue to try to manage their yields.
Class of 2028 Admit Rates
Overall admission rates for the class of 2028 are updated once information become available. Check back for updates as colleges continue to release Common Data Sets!
School | Class of 2028 | Class of 2027 | Class of 2026 | Class of 2025 |
American University | TBA | 44.00% (source: email) |
40.63% | 64.09% |
Amherst College | 9.00% | 9.81% | 7.25% | 8.74% |
Babson College | TBA | 19.74% | 22.35% | 25.35% |
Barnard College | 7.00% | 7.87% | 8.79% | 10.40% |
Bates College | TBA | 13.06% | 13.76% | 17.31% |
Boston College | TBA | 15.45% | 16.70% | 18.90% |
Boston University | TBA | 10.70% (source: email) |
14.00% | 18.30% |
Bowdoin College | 6.97% | 8.02% | 9.19% | 8.80% |
Brandeis University | TBA | 35.00% | 39.00% | 39.00% |
Brown University | 5.20% | 5.23% | 5.00% | 5.50% |
Bucknell University | TBA | 32.01% | 32.55% | 34.50% |
California Institute of Technology | TBA | TBA | 2.69% | 3.90% |
Carleton College | TBA | 21.75% | 16.63% | 17.55% |
Carnegie Mellon University | TBA | 11.00% | 11.30% | 13.54% |
Case Western Reserve University | TBA | 28.67% | 27.41% | 30.24% |
Claremont McKenna College | TBA | 11.12% | 10.35% | 11.24% |
Colby College | 6.64% | 7.00% | 7.45% | 8.00% |
Colgate University | TBA | 12.00% | 12.43% | 17.20% |
College of the Holy Cross | 16.00% | 21.10% | 36.00% | 43.00% |
Colorado College | TBA | 20.03% | 16.30% | 14.25% |
Columbia University | 3.85% | 4.00% | 3.74% | 3.90% |
Cornell University | TBA | 7.90% | 7.26% | ~8.70% |
Dartmouth College | 5.32% | 6.23% | 6.38% | 6.17% |
Davidson College | TBA | 14.48% | 16.95% | 17.80% |
Denison University | TBA | 17.00% | 22.00% | 28.27% |
Dickinson College | TBA | 43.08% | 34.92% | 48.08% |
Duke University | 5.15% | 6.30% | 6.20% | 5.70% |
Elon University | TBA | 67.31% | 74.46% | 77.71% |
Emory University | TBA | Emory: 10.65% Oxford: 14.96% |
Emory: 11.35% Both campuses: 15.80% |
Both campuses: 20.40% |
Fairfield University | 33.19% | 44.98% | 52.18% | 55.81% |
Florida State University | 21.82% | 23.77% | 25.04% | 37.06% |
Fordham University | TBA | 54.30% | 54.13% (source: email) |
58.30% (source: email) |
George Washington University | TBA | TBA | 48.98% | 49.71% |
Georgetown University | TBA | 13.00% | 12.10% | 12.00% |
Georgia Tech | Overall: 13.81% In-State: 33.00% Out-of-State and International: 10.00% |
Overall: 16.46% In-State: 36.60% Out-of-State: 12.53% International: 9.95% |
17.14% | 18.30% |
Gonzaga University | TBA | 75.96% | 69.77% | 76.15% |
Grinnell College | TBA | 12.70% | 10.76% | 10.50% |
Hamilton College | TBA | 11.77% | 11.78% | 14.10% |
Harvard University | 3.59% | 3.45% | 3.19% | 3.43% |
Harvey Mudd College | TBA | 13.10% | 13.36% | 9.99% |
Haverford College | TBA | 12.90% | 14.21% | 17.84% |
Howard University | TBA | TBA | 51.90% | 35.25% |
Johns Hopkins University | TBA | 6.28% | 7.24% | 7.40% |
Lafayette College | TBA | 31.40% | 33.60% | 40.70% |
Lehigh University | TBA | 29.26% | 36.98% | 45.97% |
Lewis & Clark College | TBA | 74.53% | 68.59% | 79.45% |
Loyola Marymount University | TBA | 40.29% | 41.31% | 45.82% |
Loyola University Maryland | TBA | ~76.00% | 83.48% | 84.21% |
Macalester College | 27.84% | 27.55% | 28.42% | 31.26% |
Marquette University | TBA | 87.48% | 87.21% | 86.26% |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.52% | 4.80% | 3.96% | 4.00% |
Miami University – Ohio | TBA | 83.35% | 87.92% | 88.60% |
Middlebury College | TBA | 11.68% | 12.69% | 15.70% |
Mount Holyoke College | TBA | 38.00% | 39.76% | 52.30% |
New York University | TBA | 8.00% | 12.46% | 12.80% |
Northeastern University | TBA | 5.64% | 6.80% | 18.38% |
Northwestern University | TBA | 7.20% | 7.21% | 6.80% |
Oberlin College | TBA | College of Arts and Sciences: 32.92% Conservatory of Music: ~34.68% |
34.90% | 34.34% |
Olin College of Engineering | TBA | TBA | 19.14% | 17.97% |
Pepperdine University | TBA | TBA | 48.71% | 52.71% |
Pitzer College | TBA | 16.70% | 18.40% | 18.31% |
Pomona College | TBA | 6.76% | 7.02% | 6.60% |
Princeton University | TBA | 4.50% | 5.70% | 3.98% |
Purdue University | TBA | 50.00% | 52.70% | 68.90% |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | TBA | 58.50% | 64.51% | 53.06% |
Rice University | 7.51% | 7.88% | 8.68% | 9.30% |
Santa Clara University | 47.00% | 43.80% | 52.11% | 53.99% |
Sarah Lawrence College | TBA | TBA | 49.88% | Unknown |
Southern Methodist University | TBA | 61.22% | 52.25% | 53.13% |
Smith College | TBA | 20.00% | 22.86% | 29.91% |
Stanford University | TBA | 3.91% | 3.68% | 3.95% |
Swarthmore College | 7.46% | 6.94% | 6.93% | 8.00% |
Syracuse University | TBA | 43.12% | 51.75% | 59.19% |
Texas A&M | TBA | 63.10% | 60.34% | 64.13% |
Texas Christian University | TBA | 42.60% | 55.76% | 53.61% |
Trinity University | TBA | 28.16% | 30.51% | 33.72% |
Tufts University | 10.00% | 10.13% | 9.69% | 11.00% |
Tulane University | 13.00% | 14.59% | 11.45% | 9.63% |
University of California – Berkeley | TBA | 11.69% | 11.39% | 14.53% |
University of California – Davis | TBA | 41.86% | 37.34% | 48.74% |
University of California – Irvine | TBA | 25.75% | 21.27% | 26.34% |
University of California – Los Angeles | TBA | 8.73% | 8.56% | 10.76% |
University of California – Merced | TBA | 90.41% | 89.46% | 86.60% |
University of California – Riverside | TBA | 68.14% | 68.69% | 65.37% |
University of California – San Diego | TBA | 24.70% | 23.70% | 34.21% |
University of California – Santa Barbara | TBA | 25.86% | 25.85% | 29.18% |
University of California – Santa Cruz | TBA | 47.06% | 46.85% | 58.66% |
University of Chicago | TBA | 4.77% | 5.44% | 6.20% |
University of Florida | TBA | TBA | 23.35% | 28.98% |
University of Georgia | Overall: 36.80% | Overall: 37.19% In-State: 50.24% Out-of-State: 28.11% International: 21.60% |
Overall: 42.23% | Overall: 38.96% |
University of Maryland | TBA | Overall: 44.84% In-State: 53.90% Out-of-State and International: 41.56% |
Overall: 36.00% | Overall: 43.00% |
University of Miami | TBA | 18.51% | 18.94% | 28.49% |
University of Michigan | TBA | 17.94% | 17.69% | 20.15% |
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill | TBA | 18.39% | 16.85% | 19.24% |
University of Notre Dame | 11.10% | 11.90% | 12.87% | 14.60% |
University of Pennsylvania | TBA | 5.80% | 6.50% | 5.68% |
University of Richmond | 22.00% (source: email) | 23.31% | 24.37% | 27.33% |
University of Southern California | 9.20% | 10.02% | 12.02% | 12.00% |
University of Tennessee – Knoxville | 33.20% | Overall: 45.99% In-State: 60.40% Out-of-State: 43.02% International: 35.19% |
68.41% | 74.94% |
University of Texas – Austin | 11.00% (for the 25% of the incoming class that were not directly admitted) | 29.12% | 31.41% | 28.75% |
University of Vermont | TBA | 60.00% | 59.79% | 63.51% |
University of Virginia | Overall: 16.38% In-State: 25.50% Out-of-State: 13.00% |
In-state: 27.58% Out-of-state: 12.92% |
In-state: 27.58% Out-of-state: 15.21% |
In-state: 28.16% Out-of-state: 17.45% |
Vanderbilt University | TBA | 6.28% | 6.10% | 6.70% |
Vassar College | TBA | 17.73% | 18.66% | 20.15% |
Villanova University | TBA | 20.50% | 23.39% | 25.24% |
Wake Forest University | TBA | 22.31% | 21.37% | 25.18% |
Washington and Lee University | TBA | 17.36% | 16.96% | 18.87% |
Washington University in St. Louis | TBA | 11.95% | 11.33% | 13.00% |
Wellesley College | ~13.00% | 13.91% | 13.57% | 16.00% |
Wesleyan University | TBA | 17.10% | 14.43% | 19.44% |
Willamette University | TBA | 79.08% | 80.63% | 79.38% |
William & Mary | TBA | 32.72% | 33.50% | 36.50% |
Williams College | 7.53% (source: email) | 9.99% | 8.50% | 8.00% |
Yale University | 3.73% | 4.50% | 4.57% | 4.62% |
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