Brown University's admit rate has held within a 2.6-point band over 7 reported cycles.
The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.
Per-cycle Common Data Set values. Enrolled is first-year matriculants (CDS B1), not total undergraduate population. Blank cells mean the field was not published in that year's source CDS.
| Year | Admit rate | Enrolled | 6-yr grad | Retention | SAT (50th) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | 5.4% | 1,719 | 95.7% | 98.8% | 1,540 |
| 2023-2024 | 5.2% | 1,695 | 95.7% | 98.5% | 1,540 |
| 2022-2023 | 5.1% | 1,717 | 95.0% | — | 1,530 |
| 2021-2022 | 5.5% | 1,705 | 95.8% | 98.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 7.7% | 1,751 | 95.2% | 91.6% | — |
Cross-admits and statistical look-alikes, surfaced from the CollegeNumbers peer model.
Comparative observations derived from this school's reported CDS values and from IPEDS / College Scorecard reference data. Every claim is grounded in a number — no editorial overlay.
Highly selective — top tier of CDS Atlas schools.
Brown University's 5.4% admit rate places it among 50 of 334 covered schools admitting below 15% (~15.0% of the index).
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 39 percentage points.
Brown University's 95.7% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 39.4 pp.
First-year retention is among the highest in the index.
Brown University's 98.8% first-year retention exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 76.8% by 22.0 pp — a strong signal of student-institution fit at intake.
Admit-rate selectivity has held steady across reporting cycles.
Brown University's admit rate has stayed in a narrow 5.1%–7.7% band across 5 reporting cycles — a 2.6% spread.
Cross-admit cohort is tightly banded on selectivity.
The 7 schools Brown University applicants most commonly also apply to sit within a 4.7 pp admit-rate band (3.6%–8.4%) — candidates competitive at any one are typically competitive at all.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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