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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 more than triple the national average.

School NameNational Average Acceptance RateCollege Coach Accceptance Rate
Brown University5.1%13%
Columbia University3.9%15%
Cornell University7.3%24%
Dartmouth College6.0%19%
Harvard University3.4%12%
Princeton University5.8%14%
University of Pennsylvania4.1%18%
Yale University4.4%15%
Averages5%16%

Private Colleges and Universities

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
Barnard College8%30%
Boston College15%44%
Boston University10.7%48%
Carnegie Mellon University14%29%
Duke University6%20%
Emory University16.2%38%
Fordham University54%70%
Georgetown University13%34%
Johns Hopkins University7.2%19%
New York University8%32%
Northeastern University7%53%
Northwestern University7%18%
Rice University7.7%31%
Stanford University3.7%12%
Syracuse University52%65%
Tufts University 9.5%31%
Tulane University8.4%58%
University of Chicago5.4%22%
University of Southern California11.5%27%
Vanderbilt University5.6%24%
Averages13.5%35%

Public Research Universities

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
Arizona State University90%92%
Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus55%79%
Purdue University53%72%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign45%59%
University of Indiana Bloomington82%91%
University of Maryland - College Park45%67%
University of Massachusetts - Amherst64%78%
University of Michigan17.7%40%
University of North Carolina43% in state; 8.2% out of state26%
University of Pittsburgh49%82%
University of Virginia16%34%
University of Washington48%58%
University of Wisconsin - Madison49%62%
University of Texas at Austin31.4% in state; 8% out of state46%
Averages49%63%

Technical Colleges and Universities

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
California Institute of Technology6.7%17%
Georgia Institute of Technology36% in state; 12% out of state38%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4.7%13%
Averages15.8%23%

UC School System

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School NameNational Avg. Acceptance RateCollege Coach Acceptance Rate
UC Berkeley14% in state; less than 10% out of state27%
UC Davis37%54%
UC Irvine21%40%
UCLA9% in state; less than 8% out of state27%
UC San Diego24%44%
UC Santa Barbara26%45%
UC Santa Cruz47%71%
Averages25%44%

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