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
Read More College Coach Reviews
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.
Click to view our acceptance rates
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% |
| School Name | National Avg. Acceptance Rate | College Coach Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Barnard College | 8.8% | 32% |
| Boston College | 16.7% | 34% |
| Boston University | 11% | 43% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 11.3% | 19% |
| Duke University | 5.1% | 17% |
| Emory University | 14.5% | 37% |
| Fordham University | 54% | 68% |
| Georgetown University | 12.2% | 30% |
| Johns Hopkins University | 7% | 10% |
| New York University | 12.5% | 24% |
| Northeastern University | 6.8% | 51% |
| Northwestern University | 7.5% | 17% |
| Rice University | 8.7% | 29% |
| Stanford University | 3.9% | 11% |
| Syracuse University | 42% | 67% |
| Tufts University | 9.7% | 25% |
| Tulane University | 13% | 41% |
| University of Chicago | 5.4% | 17% |
| University of Southern California | 12% | 19% |
| Vanderbilt University | 5.1% | 21% |
| Averages | 13.36% | 31% |
| School Name | National Avg. Acceptance Rate | College Coach Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona State University | 90% | 93% |
| Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus | 55.2% | 80% |
| Purdue University | 52.7% | 72% |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 44.8% | 50% |
| University of Indiana Bloomington | 80% | 92% |
| University of Maryland - College Park | 44.6% | 65% |
| University of Massachusetts - Amherst | 63.5% | 78% |
| University of Michigan | 17.7% | 29% |
| University of North Carolina | 17.1% | 25% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 49.1% | 82% |
| University of Virginia | 18.7% | 26% |
| University of Washington | 43% | 53% |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | 49.1% | 60% |
| University of Texas at Austin | 29% | 39% |
| Averages | 46.75% | 52% |
| School Name | National Avg. Acceptance Rate | College Coach Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology | 3.1% | 10% |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 16.5% | 32% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4% | 10% |
| Averages | 8% | 17% |
| School Name | National Avg. Acceptance Rate | College Coach Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 11% | 22% |
| UC Davis | 42.1% | 48% |
| UC Irvine | 28.8% | 37% |
| UCLA | 9% | 21% |
| UC San Diego | 26.8% | 37% |
| UC Santa Barbara | 32.9% | 38% |
| UC Santa Cruz | 65% | 68% |
| Averages | 30.8% | 39% |
Interested?
Interested in learning more about how our college admissions counseling services can help your student succeed?Call 877-402-6224 or complete the form for information on getting your student started with one of our experts.
