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Our Acceptance Rates

Below you’ll find a sample of our acceptance rates for some of the most common schools to which our students apply.

At Bright Horizons College Coach®, our philosophy is to focus on each student’s unique strengths and achievements and to design an admissions plan to fit their individual goals. Our experts encourage students to apply to a well-balanced list of colleges, including a mix of “reach,” “possible,” and “likely” schools. We help students identify institutions in each of these categories that check many of the boxes on their “college wish list” to ensure students have exciting options to choose from when those acceptances come rolling in.

By focusing less on school name recognition and more on student strengths and preferences, we’ve consistently amassed industry-leading acceptance results over our 25+ years in business. While we’re certainly proud of these numbers, we’re most proud when we hear from students like this one:

"[My advisor] took my personality into account and pushed me to look at schools I hadn’t considered for myself that I ultimately fell in love with. I feel like they managed my expectations and helped me create a list of colleges that were plausible and I could feel confident applying to."
College Coach Graduate and Northeastern University student

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Our Acceptance Rates

Below you’ll find a sample of our acceptance rates for some of the most common schools to which our students apply. Click here for a list of all acceptances for our most recent class of students.

Ivy League

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On average, Bright Horizons College Coach students are accepted to Ivy League institutions at nearly triple the national average.

School Name National Average Acceptance Rate College Coach Acceptance Rate
Brown University 5% 10%
Columbia University 4% 10%
Cornell University 8% 20%
Dartmouth College 6% 19%
Harvard University 3% 10%
Princeton University 6% 12%
University of Pennsylvania 7% 17%
Yale University 5% 13%
Averages 5% 14%

Private Colleges and Universities

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
Barnard College8.8%32%
Boston College16.7%34%
Boston University11%43%
Carnegie Mellon University11.3%19%
Duke University5.1%17%
Emory University14.5%37%
Fordham University54%68%
Georgetown University12.2%30%
Johns Hopkins University7%10%
New York University12.5%24%
Northeastern University6.8%51%
Northwestern University7.5%17%
Rice University8.7%29%
Stanford University3.9%11%
Syracuse University42%67%
Tufts University 9.7%25%
Tulane University13%41%
University of Chicago5.4%17%
University of Southern California12%19%
Vanderbilt University5.1%21%
Averages13.36%31%

Public Research Universities

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
Arizona State University90%93%
Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus55.2%80%
Purdue University52.7%72%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign44.8%50%
University of Indiana Bloomington80%92%
University of Maryland - College Park44.6%65%
University of Massachusetts - Amherst63.5%78%
University of Michigan17.7%29%
University of North Carolina17.1%25%
University of Pittsburgh49.1%82%
University of Virginia18.7%26%
University of Washington43%53%
University of Wisconsin - Madison49.1%60%
University of Texas at Austin29%39%
Averages46.75%52%

Technical Colleges and Universities

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
California Institute of Technology3.1%10%
Georgia Institute of Technology16.5%32%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4%10%
Averages8%17%

UC School System

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
UC Berkeley11%22%
UC Davis42.1%48%
UC Irvine28.8%37%
UCLA9%21%
UC San Diego26.8%37%
UC Santa Barbara32.9%38%
UC Santa Cruz65%68%
Averages30.8%39%

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