Rice accepted 9.3 percent of all applicants while WashU accepted 13 percent, nearly double of Vanderbilt’s overall acceptance rate. “We just see the name and brand of Vanderbilt growing.”Īccording to US News’ 2021 Best National University Ranking, Vanderbilt is tied with Brown University at 14th, preceded by Duke University and Dartmouth College and followed by Rice University and Washington University in St. “The class itself is simply extraordinary,” Christiansen said. Per Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Douglas Christiansen, this year’s class was socioeconomically, racially and geographically diverse, with students admitted from every state and 74 countries. While the ED acceptance rate for the Class of 2024 was 2.3 times higher than the RD acceptance rate ( 9.0 percent versus 20.7 percent ), this year’s ED acceptance rate was 3.4 times higher than the RD acceptance rate (5.3 percent versus 18.1 percent ).

The gap between ED and RD acceptance rates widened for the Class of 2025. The university accepted 8.8 percent of applicants to the Class of 2020, 8.6 percent to the Class of 2021, 7.3 percent to the Class of 2022, 6.3 percent to the Class of 2023 and 9.0 percent to the Class of 2024. Vanderbilt’s regular decision acceptance rate has declined over the past five years, excluding the Class of 2024. 19 update from Vanderbilt Undergraduate Admissions. This year also saw the early decision (ED) rate fall to 18.1 percent, per a Feb. Only 2,248 of the 42,125 applicants in Vanderbilt’s regular decision (RD) pool were accepted, another historically low at 5.3 percent acceptance rate. (Hustler Comms/Emery Little) ( Emery Little) These schools all had around a 7 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2024. UChicago still has not released admission statistics.

This year, Yale posting a 4.6 percent acceptance rate and UPenn a 5.7 percent acceptance rate. Vanderbilt’s overall acceptance rate fell to 6.7 percent for the Class of 2025, the lowest acceptance rate in the university’s history.Ī 3.7 percent drop from 10.4 percent last year, the Class of 2025’s acceptance rate puts Vanderbilt among institutions such as Yale University, University of Chicago (UChicago) and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) last year. UPDATED: This piece has been updated to include the admission rates for the Class of 2025 for universities that were not previously included.

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