2019 College Acceptance Rate: Early Decision/Action vs. Regular Decision

 

Institution Early Action Admission Rate Early Decision Admission Rate Regular Decision Admission Rate
American University   81.20% 28.90%
Amherst College   38.30% 11.50%
Babson College 23.70% 39.40% 23.00%
Barnard College   29.90% 11.60%
Bates College   45.10% 14.90%
Beloit College   26.80% 56.90%
Bentley University   68.50% 42.20%
Boston College 33.60%   25.60%
Boston University   28.30% 21.60%
Bowdoin College   22.90% 8.50%
Brandeis University   39.10% 30.50%
Brown University   21.10% 6.20%
Bryn Mawr College   52.50% 31.90%
Bucknell University   55.60% 31.30%
California Institute of Technology*     6.60%
Carleton College   26.50% 18.90%
Carnegie Mellon University   21.10% 16.80%
Case Western Reserve University 36.00% 42.00% 22.80%
Claremont McKenna College   25.00% 7.10%
Colby College   38.20% 11.40%
Colgate University   40.70% 23.20%
College of the Holy Cross   81.30% 34.90%
College of William and Mary   58.20% 35.50%
Colorado College 18.30% 27.40% 8.50%
Columbia University   17.60% 4.30%
Connecticut College   62.40% 36.30%
Cornell University   24.50% 8.70%
Dartmouth College   25.30% 6.80%
Davidson College   46.10% 15.60%
Dickinson College 57.80% 67.90% 36.20%
Duke University   21.60% 7.30%
Elon University 71.40% 87.00% 72.00%
Emory University   26.00% 17.70%
Fordham University 53.90% 53.40% 39.50%
Franklin & Marshall College   57.80% 33.10%
George Washington University   70.30% 40.40%
Georgetown University*     14.50%
Georgia Institute of Technology 25.80%   17.20%
Gettysburg College   70.80% 43.50%
Grinnell College   57.80% 22.70%
Hamilton College   42.00% 19.20%
Harvard University 14.50%   2.90%
Harvey Mudd College   18.90% 13.90%
Haverford College   44.10% 16.10%
Johns Hopkins University   30.20% 9.10%
Kenyon College   69.80% 33.90%
Lafayette College   51.60% 27.40%
Lehigh University   60.30% 19.20%
Macalester College   52.10% 40.60%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6.90%   6.60%
Middlebury College   46.80% 13.60%
Mount Holyoke College   57.70% 50.20%
Muhlenberg College   85.60% 60.10%
New York University   34.70% 18.40%
Northeastern University   41.00% 18.90%
Northwestern University   26.50% 6.40%
Oberlin College   49.00% 35.30%
Occidental College   47.90% 36.70%
Ohio State University 65.30%   31.50%
Pitzer College   29.60% 11.40%
Pomona College   16.60% 6.40%
Princeton University 14.80%   3.80%
Providence College   80.60% 47.70%
Reed College   52.30% 34.30%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   46.80% 42.70%
Rhodes College 55.80% 62.60% 30.80%
Rice University   22.10% 10.20%
Santa Clara University 63.30% 72.60% 38.60%
Scripps College   32.00% 23.50%
Sewanee: University of the South 83.00% 86.10% 39.40%
Skidmore College   50.80% 25.30%
Smith College   49.50% 28.90%
Southern Methodist University   61.40% 50.80%
Southwestern University   30.80% 45.40%
Spelman College 56.20% 36.10% 28.80%
St. Lawrence University   76.20% 44.40%
St. Olaf College   75.80% 48.00%
Stanford University*     4.40%
Swarthmore College   26.30% 8.00%
Texas Christian University 58.20% 33.40% 20.50%
The College of New Jersey   60.10% 49.30%
Trinity College   57.60% 31.30%
Trinity University 64.80% 79.20% 8.20%
Tufts University   42.30% 11.40%
Tulane University 24.90% 32.20% 1.40%
Union College   56.20% 37.60%
University of Chicago*     7.30%
University of Miami 44.30% 55.60% 20.90%
University of Michigan*     22.80%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 31.10%   8.40%
University of Notre Dame 29.90%   13.80%
University of Pennsylvania   18.50% 6.50%
University of Richmond   48.20% 29.10%
University of Rochester*     31.40%
University of Virginia 27.70%   24.70%
Vanderbilt University 20.60% 20.60% 6.10%
Vassar College   43.70% 22.90%
Virginia Tech   45.40% 66.80%
Wake Forest University   41.00% 27.40%
Washington and Lee University   50.50% 18.10%
Washington University   42.00% 13.40%
Wellesley College   30.90% 18.00%
Wesleyan University   37.60% 15.60%
Whitman College*     50.40%
Williams College   34.50% 11.10%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 64.80%   5.10%
Yale University*     6.90%

*Schools that do not release Early Action/Decision Acceptance Rates, the Regular Decision Rate is a combined rate.