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

This list includes results from Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Colby, Colorado College, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Emory (Oxford), Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, 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 and Yale.

Bookmark this page, as we'll be updating it frequently over the next several weeks.

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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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Colby College announced today that it admitted 1,307 applicants to the Class of 2024.  

A total of 13,922 applications were received this year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 9 percent.    

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Northwestern University admitted 9 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024.  

In total, 3,542 applicants were admitted from a pool of 39,261 applications. The target size for the class is 1,975.

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Amherst College announced that it admitted 11.8 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024. 

1,248 students were admitted from a pool of 10,601 applicants.     

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The University of Southern California announced today that it admitted 16 percent of applicants to the Class of 2024.  

60,000 applications were received, down 10 percent from last year.

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