Acceptance fee drops to three.68%, majority enrolled are non-white college students

Stanford’s undergraduate Class of 2026 acceptance fee dropped to a historic low of three.68%, in keeping with the College’s 2022-2023 Frequent Knowledge Set. Notably, a few fifth of the frosh inhabitants consists of home college students (college students residing in america) who determine as non-Hispanic white, a portion that has continued to lower over the previous few years. At an all-time excessive, ladies make up roughly 54% of all first-years.

Out of the aggressive applicant pool of 56,378 potential college students, 2,075 candidates had been admitted and 1,736 matriculated, with a yield fee of 83.66%.

The Class of 2026 had the bottom acceptance fee within the College’s historical past, dropping from 3.95% within the earlier yr. In comparison with its peer establishments, Harvard was the one college with a decrease acceptance fee than Stanford’s, accepting 3.19% of undergraduate candidates, as reported by the Harvard Crimson.

All 50 states are represented within the frosh class and worldwide frosh come from 64 non-U.S. international locations. About 21% of first-years determine as first-generation faculty college students, a rise from the Class of 2025’s 18% statistic.

A majority of frosh come from public excessive faculties, with 25% coming from non-public excessive faculties and about 1% reporting a homeschooling background.

Stanford’s Class of 2026 is made up of about 54% ladies and 46% males, a rise in ladies from the Class of 2025’s 51% proportion. The College doesn’t publicly report the proportion of the category that identifies as non-binary.

The frosh class’s largest racial/ethnic class is Asian with 29.14% figuring out as such. Roughly 13.44% of scholars are listed beneath the Nonresident class, which categorizes college students who aren’t residents or nationals of the U.S., no matter what race or ethnicity they might in any other case determine as.

The smallest classes embrace American Indian or Alaska Native with 0.98%, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander with 0.29%, and unknown race/ethnicity with 0.29%.

This text has been up to date to incorporate the right acceptance fee for the category of 2026. The Day by day regrets this error.