Dartmouth College has released Regular Decision notifications to the Class of 2029. In total, 28,230 students applied to the College on the Hill’s Class of 2029 — an 11% decrease from last year’s record tally of 31,657. Of these applicants, 1,702 earned admission, marking an overall acceptance rate of 6.0%, which is 0.7% higher than last year’s record-low acceptance rate of 5.3%.

Dartmouth Admissions Statistics (Class of 2029 – 2007)

Dartmouth College Class Year	Overall Acceptance Rate	Regular Decision Acceptance Rate	Regular Decision Applications Accepted	Regular Decision Applications Received	Early Decision / Action Acceptance Rate	Percent of Class Filled by Early Applications	Early Decision / Action Applications Received	Early Decision / Action Applications Accepted	Expected Number of Students to Enroll	Total Applications Received	Total Applications Accepted
Class of 2029	6.00%	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	3,550	Not Yet Published	1,185	28,230	1,702
Class of 2028	5.41%	3.93%	1,104	28,106	17.07%	52.70%	3,550	606	1,150	31,656	1,710
Class of 2027	6.07%	4.54%	1,173	25,832	19.21%	50.26%	3,009	578	1,150	28,841	1,751
Class of 2026	6.24%	4.70%	1,207	25,703	21.27%	48.70%	2,633	560	1,150	28,336	1,767
Class of 2025	6.20%	4.50%	1,158	25,693	21.20%	51.40%	2,664	591	1,150	28,357	1,749
Class of 2024	8.80%	6.90%	1,334	19,325	26.40%	47.60%	2,069	547	1,150	21,394	1,881
Class of 2023	7.90%	6.10%	1,302	21,176	23.20%	49.90%	2,474	574	1,150	23,650	1,876
Class of 2022	8.70%	6.90%	1,360	19,763	24.90%	49.10%	2,270	565	1,150	22,033	1,925
Class of 2021	10.40%	8.50%	1,537	18,035	27.80%	47%	1,999	555	1,180	20,034	2,092
Class of 2020	10.50%	9.00%	1,682	18,748	25.60%	44.10%	1,927	494	1,120	20,675	2,176
Class of 2019	10.30%	8.80%	1,637	18,645	26%	43.10%	1,859	483	1,120	20,504	2,120
Class of 2018	11.50%	9.90%	1,751	17,618	27.90%	42.30%	1,678	469	1,110	19,296	2,220
Class of 2017	10.00%	8.60%	1,788	20,842	29.40%	41.40%	1,574	464	1,120	22,416	2,252
Class of 2016	9.40%	8.00%	1,715	21,310	25.80%	42.10%	1,800	465	1,105	23,110	2,180
Class of 2015	9.70%	8.40%	1,734	20,626	25.20%	40.40%	1,759	444	1,100	22,385	2,178
Class of 2014	11.50%	9.90%	1,704	17,184	25.50%	42.30%	1,594	461	1,090	18,778	2,165
Class of 2013	12%	10.80%	1,783	16,559	25.50%	35%	1,571	401	1,090	18,130	2,184
Class of 2012	13.20%	11.80%	1,790	15,108	28.00%	36.70%	1,428	400	1,090	16,536	2,190
Class of 2011	15.30%	13.80%	1,785	12,891	29.60%	35.20%	1,285	380	1,080	14,176	2,165
Class of 2010	15.40%	13.90%	1,752	12,620	30.20%	37%	1,317	398	1,075	13,937	2,150
Class of 2009	16.90%	15.10%	1,753	11,586	33.90%	36.90%	1,171	397	1,075	12,757	2,150
Class of 2008	18.30%	16.80%	1,759	10,455	30%	35.40%	1,278	384	1,085	11,733	2,143
Class of 2007	17.70%	16%	1,705	10,636	32.40%	37%	1,217	394	1,065	11,853	2,099

Dartmouth Class of 2029 Statistics in Historical Perspective

To place Dartmouth’s admissions statistics for the Class of 2029 in context, this lackluster performance on the part of Dartmouth is partly explained by the College’s brave decision under the leadership of President Sian Beilock to reinstate standardized testing requirements, meaning this applicant pool was the first in recent history to be free from squeakers — Ivy Coach’s term for those sly students who attempt to sneak into a school for which they are unqualified by withholding test scores. This year also marks the first admissions cycle following Dartmouth’s announcement that tuition fees would be increasing by 4.75%.

Profile of Dartmouth College Admits to the Class of 2029

Of those admitted to Dartmouth’s Class of 2029, they hail from all 50 states in our union, in addition to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. International admits hail from 57 nations worldwide, with the United Kingdom, Canada, and China, among the most-represented countries.  

16% of admits will be the first in their families to attend a four-year college. 15% come from rural environments. 56% attend public high schools. Among those high schools that rank their students, 96% are in the top 10% of their graduating classes. Over 25% will likely graduate as valedictorians or salutatorians. 18.2% will be able to attend Dartmouth without any financial assistance needed from their parents.

The Rationale Behind Dartmouth’s Lackluster Year

Dartmouth made headlines for becoming the first Ivy League school to reinstate an SAT/ACT testing requirement in admissions, which was a decision we applauded for its ingenuity in the face of other Ivy League schools that would rather mislead applicants into thinking they still have a chance of admission without submitting test scores — but it still was bound to cause a slight decrease in applications. 

It’s a state of affairs that Ivy Coach’s crystal ball predicted with 100% accuracy this time last year, but we must admit there is likely another factor at play here. It’s time we call a spade a spade: this hasn’t been a good year for the Ivy League. Mishandling of major waves of antisemitic attacks against students has tarnished the reputation of these time-honored institutions. Is it any surprise that applications were down across the board — not only at Dartmouth but also Yale, Brown, Cornell, and Columbia? Oh, and those are just the schools that reported their acceptance rate this year. Harvard, in all likelihood to conceal a similarly lackluster acceptance rate, made the unprecedented move of not reporting their admissions statistics at all this year.

Could Dartmouth, a school that has been rightly praised for heeding the words of its own Robert Frost by taking the road less traveled (the school’s response to the Israel-Hamas war under the leadership of President Beilock has been widely lauded — and justifiably so) have done a better job of courting the applicants who were turned away from other Ivies over their PR nightmares and campaigns of widespread student repression? Probably! Perhaps they did just that, but the absence of squeakers in this pool had an even greater impact on acceptance. In any event, with the nation’s top non-Ivies reporting upswings in applications, Dartmouth’s performance this year could just be a canary in the coal mine for a cultural shift away from Ivy League reverence and towards the schools that haven’t been as scathed by these recent years of utter turmoil. But alas, we, a proudly Jewish owned business (one who happens to be a Dartmouth alum!), don’t think so. After all, memory is short and Dartmouth’s leader, President Beilock, is one for the ages. This too shall pass.

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