On Thursday evening, 709 students refreshed their Yale College applicant portals to the news that they had been offered a spot in the College’s class of 2028.
The 9.02 percent acceptance rate is the lowest in over two decades. Of the remaining applicants in a pool of 7,856 total, 20 percent, or 1,531 students, were deferred to the regular decision pool; 70 percent, or 5,537 students, were denied admission and 1 percent, or 79 students, withdrew their applications or submitted incomplete ones.
The 70 percent of denied applicants is the largest share of early action rejections since at least six years ago, when the class of 2022 received its early action decisions. The 9.02 percent acceptance rate is the lowest since Yale adopted its current non-binding early admissions model, which first went into effect for the class of 2008.
