Here's our initial list of reported early decision and early action admission rates for the Class of 2024.

This list includes results from Barnard, Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Colby, Colgate, Colorado College, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Emory (Oxford), Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, Middlebury, MIT, Providence College, Rice, Santa Clara, University of Georgia, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Villanova, Washington University in St. Louis, Wesleyan, William & Mary and Yale.

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Given how sophisticated colleges have become in recruiting applicants, it's dangerous to rely on old admissions data.  

We've taken a look at our coverage universe and identified schools with notable admission rate differences between the Class of 2024 and the Class of 2023. In addition to providing the admission rates, we've included some commentary to explain why as well as a link back to the source article.

This year's notable changes are largely about rising admission rates, thanks to COVID-19 uncertainty and expanding enrollment at several University of California campuses. Declines in admission rates were observed at Boston College and the University of Virginia thanks to new Early Decision options that accounted for 37 and roughly 19 percent of the incoming class.

Depending on how you categorize schools, the admission rate change may be enough to turn a likely into a target or target into a reach.  Regardless, take a moment to review the list—the last thing anyone needs at this point is a surprise!

College Kickstart subscribers: Class of 2024 admission rates have already been incorporated into the latest release of College Kickstart.

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Cornell admitted 10.7 percent applicants to the Class of 2024.  

A total of 51,500 applications were received this year, up approximately 4 percent year over year. 

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Hot off the press!  We've had a chance to review the Fall 2020 admissions data released recently by the University of California and thought it would be helpful to summarize it and share our key findings.  

Overall freshman admission rates are up for residents, out of state and international students across the board thanks to a 10 percent year-over-year rise in total admits. If you're an out of state or international student, pay close attention...there continues to be a window of opportunity to take advantage of favorable odds at several UC campuses.

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For those of you who have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's a list of 2019 waitlist statistics for several popular private and public schools, along with notification dates and latest status where available.  

Our sample of waitlist statistics from 132 private and public institutions paints the following picture:

• The number of students admitted from the waitlist more than doubled year over year from 9,882 in 2018 to 21,180 in 2019

• On average, 15 percent of students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted in 2019, up from 7 percent in 2018

• 48 percent of the schools admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the waitlist last year (vs. 70 percent in 2018)

• 27 percent of the schools admitted 5 percent or less (vs. 44 percent in 2018)

• 7 percent admitted no one (vs. 12 percent in 2018)

Given the uncertainty caused by COVID-19, we fully expect the rise in waitlist activity to continue for 2020 (Class of 2024).

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Here's our initial list of reported overall admission rates for the Class of 2024. Results are now available for American University, Amherst College, Barnard College, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Caltech, Carleton, Colby, Colorado College, Columbia, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, George Washington University, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Macalester, Middlebury, MIT, NYU, Northeastern, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Oxford College at Emory, Princeton, Rice, Swarthmore, Tufts, Tulane, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Villanova, Washington University in St. Louis, Wellesley Wesleyan and Yale.  Latest year application totals are available for many more.

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Wesleyan University announced it admitted 19.8 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024.  

A total of 2,531 students were admitted from a pool of 12,752 applications.

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Carleton College announced recently that it admitted 20.1 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024.  

A total of 1,384 students were admitted from a pool of 6,893 applicants.  Applications were down nearly 6 percent from the previous year.

The target size for the Class of 2022 is approximately 520. 

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The University of Notre Dame announced that 3,507 applicants were admitted to the Class of 2024.  

A total of 21,270 applications were received this year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 16 percent. The University is targeting an enrollment of 2,050.   

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Vanderbilt University reported that it admitted 2,907 applicants to the Class of 2024 under regular decision.

A total of 32,376 regular decision applications were received, resulting in a regular decision admission rate of 9.0 percent.

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The University of Chicago announced that it admitted 6.2 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024.  

Applications totaled 34,400, slightly below the 34,648 applications received from the previous year.  

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Columbia University announced it admitted 6.1 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024.

2,465 applicants were admitted from a total pool of 40,203 applications.

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Davidson College announced that it admitted 19 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024.  

Application and admittance counts were not provided.

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NYU announced today that it admitted 15 percent of applicants to its New York campus to the Class of 2024.  

Over 85,000 applications were received for all campuses (New York, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai).

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Tufts announced that 15 percent of applicants were admitted to the Class of 2024.

A total of 23,127 applications were received this year.   

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