Ivy League and Top College Acceptance Rates, Class of 2031

Overall acceptance rates for the Class of 2031 -- students applying this fall to start college in fall 2027 -- come out mostly in late March, when schools release Regular Decision results. Only some schools publish them. This page collects each school's official number from its own announcement, starting with last cycle's Class of 2030 results so you have a real baseline now. As schools announce Class of 2031 numbers in March and April 2027, they get added here.

These are overall rates: every admit across early and regular rounds, divided by every applicant. For early-round numbers alone, which come out in December, see the Class of 2031 early decision and early action tracker.

Every figure below comes from the school's own announcement, not an admissions-consulting roundup or a student newspaper. Where a school published only part of the picture, the missing half is left blank rather than estimated.

Overall acceptance rates by school (Class of 2030 baseline)

Class of 2031 results aren't out yet. Last cycle's announcement dates are the best guide to when each one will land.

A few rows need a caveat to read correctly:

• "Around" and "about" mean the school gave a rounded figure. Northwestern's dean wrote that the overall admit rate "is around 7%" from "over 54,000" applications; Notre Dame and Tufts stated their rates as whole percentages. None of the three published an exact admit count.
• MIT's 1,299 is its full-year total, Early and Regular Action combined, as MIT's own post states -- not a Regular Action count to add to the 655 it admitted in December.
• Duke's 2,930 includes QuestBridge admits. For an overall rate that's correct, since QuestBridge applicants are part of Duke's total pool. (Its early-round rate is a different story -- see the early tracker.)
• Emory counts each student once. It admitted 3,679 to Emory College and 2,726 to Oxford College, with 1,088 admitted to both, for 5,317 individual students.
• Columbia's figure covers Columbia College and Columbia Engineering together.

Schools that published only part of the picture

• Vanderbilt published a Regular Decision rate only: 1,382 of 48,720 Regular Decision applicants, or 2.8%. That number leaves out its two Early Decision rounds, so it isn't comparable to the overall rates above. Vanderbilt said its total pool was "over 54,000" but didn't give an overall admit count.
• Cornell announced 5,776 admitted students but no applicant count, so there's no official rate to compute.
• Penn said it reviewed more than 61,000 applications but didn't say how many it admitted.

Schools that don't publish acceptance rates

• Harvard and Princeton posted no admitted-class numbers at decision time. Princeton's own admission statistics page lists figures for the enrolled class, not admits.

Any number you see for these schools on a consulting site is an estimate, not an official figure. This is part of a broader shift toward less disclosure -- see which Ivy League schools still report early and regular rates separately.

What to expect for the Class of 2031

• Ivy Day lands in late March. It was March 26 last cycle, the shared notification date for all eight Ivies. MIT historically posts earlier, around March 14.
• Pools keep growing. Columbia, UVA and Northwestern all reported record applicant pools for the Class of 2030, Brown's grew 12%, and Duke's grew by more than 3,200 applicants. With class sizes roughly fixed, bigger pools usually push rates down -- so treat last year's rate as a ceiling, not a floor.
• Disclosure can change in either direction. A school that published last year can stop, as Harvard and Princeton did, and one that didn't can start. This page only adds what each school actually posts.

What this means for you

• Compare overall rates with overall rates. A Regular Decision-only rate like Vanderbilt's 2.8% looks lower than an overall rate because the early admits are taken out of it. For the early side, see how much early decision really boosts your odds.
• A single-digit rate is a ceiling on your odds, not your odds. Recruited athletes, legacies and early applicants are all inside these numbers. Your own chances depend on how your profile compares, which is what College Intel's free chances calculator is for.
• Look at the long-run trend, too. Ivy League acceptance rates have roughly halved since 2011, and the order between schools has barely moved.
• Check back in late March. This table gets the Class of 2031 numbers as each school posts its own.

Sources

• Columbia Announces Class of 2030 Admissions Decisions — Columbia Undergraduate Admissions
• Yale admits 2,328 applicants to Class of 2030 — Yale News
• MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online — MIT Admissions
• Duke Welcomes the Newest Members of the Class of 2030 — Duke Today
• Brown University admits 2,564 students to the undergraduate Class of 2030 — Brown University
• Applications Rise 2% in Second-Largest Pool in College History — Dartmouth
• Regular Decision letter to counselors, March 25, 2026 — Northwestern Undergraduate Admission
• University of Notre Dame Releases Regular Decision Admissions Decisions for Class of 2030 — Notre Dame Admissions
• Introducing the Admitted Undergraduate Class of 2030 — Tufts Now
• Introducing Emory's admitted Class of 2030 — Emory News
• UVA extends 2,000 offers in final round, capping historic admissions year — UVA Today
• Class of 2030 Regular Decision by the numbers — Vanderbilt Admissions
• Admitted Class of 2030 seeks real-world impact — Cornell Chronicle
• Welcome, admitted Class of 2030 — Penn Today
• Admission Statistics — Princeton University Admission