Admissions data

College Acceptance Rates and What Top Schools Actually Value

Acceptance rates, Early Decision advantages, test policies, and how each school rates the factors in your application, pulled from the colleges’ own Common Data Set filings and verified against official sources.

Princeton University

4.4%

acceptance rate

Test optionalECs very important9 factors rated very important

Princeton has no undergraduate business major; business-minded students typically major in Economics or Operations Research and Financial Engineeri...

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MIT

4.5%

acceptance rate

Tests required1 factors rated very important

MIT undergraduates pursue business through the Sloan School of Management's Course 15 major, choosing among Management, Business Analytics, or Fina...

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Harvard University

3.6%

acceptance rate

Tests required

Harvard College offers no undergraduate business major; business-minded students typically concentrate in Economics (often with Statistics or Appli...

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Stanford University

3.8%

acceptance rate

Tests requiredECs very important9 factors rated very important

Stanford has no undergraduate business major; business-minded undergrads typically major in Economics or Management Science & Engineering (the Grad...

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Yale University

4.7%

acceptance rate

Test flexibleECs very important8 factors rated very important

Yale has no undergraduate business major; students aiming at business typically major in Economics or Ethics, Politics, and Economics and draw on Y...

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University of Chicago

4.5%

acceptance rate

Test optionalECs very important6 factors rated very important

UChicago has no undergraduate business school; business-minded undergrads typically major in Economics (including a Business Economics specializati...

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Duke University

5.2%

acceptance rate

Test optionalECs very important6 factors rated very important

Duke has no undergraduate business major; students typically pursue economics (with a finance concentration) or the Markets and Management Studies...

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University of Pennsylvania

5.4%

acceptance rate

2.6x

early decision odds

Tests required5 factors rated very important

Penn is one of the few elite schools with a direct-admit undergraduate business school: the Wharton School's BS in Economics, offering 21 concentra...

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Johns Hopkins University

6.1%

acceptance rate

1.8x

early decision odds

Tests required6 factors rated very important

Johns Hopkins has no undergraduate business major; students interested in business typically major in Economics in the Krieger School and add the C...

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Northwestern University

7.7%

acceptance rate

early decision odds

Test optionalECs very important8 factors rated very important

Northwestern offers no undergraduate business major; business-bound students typically major in economics (Weinberg) or industrial engineering (McC...

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#12

Cornell University

8.4%

acceptance rate

2.2x

early decision odds

Tests requiredECs very important6 factors rated very important

Cornell's undergraduate business path runs through the SC Johnson College of Business, primarily the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Manageme...

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#13

Dartmouth College

acceptance rate

3.6x

early decision odds

Tests requiredECs very important8 factors rated very important

Dartmouth has no undergraduate business major; aspiring business students typically major in economics (or a modified major such as engineering mod...

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#13

Brown University

6.3%

acceptance rate

2.8x

early decision odds

Tests required8 factors rated very important

Brown has no undergraduate business school or business major: since the Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations (BEO) concentration was sunset...

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#15

Columbia University

3.9%

acceptance rate

3.4x

early decision odds

Test optionalECs very important7 factors rated very important

Columbia has no undergraduate business school, so business-minded undergrads typically major in economics or financial economics at Columbia Colleg...

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University of California, Berkeley campus

#15

University of California, Berkeley

11.4%

acceptance rate

Test blind3 factors rated very important

Undergraduate business at Berkeley runs through the Haas School's highly competitive Spieker Undergraduate Business Program (BS in Business Adminis...

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#17

Vanderbilt University

5.4%

acceptance rate

2.6x

early decision odds

Test optionalECs very important6 factors rated very important

Vanderbilt has no undergraduate business major; business-minded undergrads typically major in Economics (College of Arts and Science) or Human and...

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#17

Rice University

acceptance rate

1.4x

early decision odds

Test optionalECs very important9 factors rated very important

Rice offers a direct undergraduate Business major (BA) through the Virani Undergraduate School of Business, taught by Jones Graduate School of Busi...

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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus

#17

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

9.4%

acceptance rate

Test blind3 factors rated very important

UCLA has no undergraduate business major; business-minded undergrads typically pursue the Business Economics major in the College of Letters and Sc...

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#20

University of Notre Dame

9.4%

acceptance rate

Test optionalECs very important9 factors rated very important

Applicants indicate Mendoza College of Business intent on the Notre Dame application and are told at admission whether they are approved for direct...

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#20

Carnegie Mellon University

11.1%

acceptance rate

1.9x

early decision odds

Test optionalECs very important6 factors rated very important

Undergraduates study business at CMU's Tepper School of Business, applying directly for the BS in Business Administration (with tracks like finance...

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Washington University in St. Louis campus

#20

Washington University in St. Louis

11.9%

acceptance rate

2.3x

early decision odds

Test optional8 factors rated very important

Undergraduates enter WashU's Olin Business School directly as first-years in the BSBA program, declaring one or more of eight business majors (incl...

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University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) campus

#20

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

16.4%

acceptance rate

Test optional2 factors rated very important

Undergraduate business at Michigan runs through the Ross School of Business BBA, which students enter either by direct admission from high school (...

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#24

Emory University

10.3%

acceptance rate

2.2x

early decision odds

Test optionalECs very important6 factors rated very important

Emory undergraduates pursue business through the Goizueta Business School BBA program, entering via an internal application (typically during sopho...

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#24

Georgetown University

13.5%

acceptance rate

Tests required8 factors rated very important

Georgetown undergraduates pursue business by applying directly as first-years to the McDonough School of Business, earning a BSBA with majors such...

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All figures come from each school’s own Common Data Set (edition noted on each profile). More colleges are being added as their data is verified.