Franklin W Olin College of Engineering's admit rate has risen 5.9 percentage points across the 6 reported years on file.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 | 21.7% | 98 | 92.0% | 99.0% | 1,530 |
| 2022-2023 | 19.1% | 75 | 94.0% | 99.0% | 1,520 |
| 2021-2022 | 18.0% | 91 | 97.0% | 100.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 16.4% | 84 | 94.0% | 81.0% | — |
| 2019-2020 | 15.7% | 85 | 96.0% | 99.0% | — |
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.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools Franklin W Olin College of Engineering applicants most commonly also apply to range from 2.6% admit to 80.9% admit — a 78.3 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 36 percentage points.
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering's 92.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 35.7 pp.
First-year retention is among the highest in the index.
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering's 99.0% first-year retention exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 76.8% by 22.2 pp — a strong signal of student-institution fit at intake.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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