Yale University will have a bigger freshman class next fall for the second year in a row, but a larger pool of applicants made it tougher to get in.
The university said it admitted 2,229 freshman out of 35,306 applicants, an acceptance rate of 6.3 percent. Last year’s acceptance rate was 6.9 percent.
Yale said the Class of 2022 will be about 15 percent larger than previous recent classes, thanks to last year’s opening of two new residential colleges, Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin.
Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions and financial aid, said the size and diversity of Yale’s applicant pool allowed Yale to admit a larger class without hurting its selectivity.
“All of our admissions officers continue to be impressed with and humbled by the number of highly qualified applicants in our pool,” he said in a statement. “We’re thrilled that the expansion of Yale College has allowed us to offer admission to such a large number of students from such a variety of backgrounds.”
Yale said it has admitted students from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and 64 countries, who will graduate from nearly 1,500 secondary schools worldwide and will major in more than 80 different academic programs.
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