Is collegevine up to date with the acceptance rate of getting into colleges?

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Your dad is absolutely correct. Competition has increased significantly and some top colleges are 50% harder to get into after 1 cycle. Expect more of same this admissions cycle as well. CollegeVine has heard from me as well as others to correct this. Some rates are actually 2 cycles old. I would think this would be a key priority update as well as ACT and SAT scores as the Common App is already open for the 2021-22 season. (if you are looking for a particular school let me know)

Amherst 8% vs 11.7% (2025 vs 2024) 46% harder

Barnard 10.4% vs 10.9% (4% harder)

Boston College 19% acceptance rate vs 23.5% (23% harder)

Boston University 18.3% vs 18.5% (about the same as last year)

Brown University 5.45% versus 6.88% (26% harder)

Bucknell 34% vs 37.5% (about 10% harder)

Colby College 8.1% vs 9.4% (16% harder)

Colgate 17.2% vs 27.5% (104% increase in applications wow!) about 60% harder

Colorado College 14.3% vs 13.6% (5% easier this cycle)

Columbia University 3.66% vs 6.2% (75% harder this cycle)

Cornell University 8.56% vs 10.71% (25% harder this cycle)

Dartmouth College 6.17% vs 8.8% (43% harder)

Duke University 5.8% versus 7.7% (33% harder this cycle)

Emory 13% vs 17% (30% harder)

Emory (Oxford) 21.3% vs 22.7% (6% harder)

Georgia Tech 17.9% vs 20.3% ( 34% harder)

Georgetown 11.7% vs 15.5% ( 32% harder)

Harvard University 3.43% versus 4.92% (43% harder)

Johns Hopkins 6.4% vs 8.8% ( 38% harder)

Macalester 31% vs 38.7% (21% harder)

Middlebury College 15.7% vs 24.3% ( 55% harder)

MIT 4.0% vs 7.3% ( 82% harder this cycle)

Notre Dame 14.6% vs 16.5% (13% harder)

NYU 12.8% vs 15.3% (19% harder)

Princeton University 3.98% vs 5.63% (41% harder)

Rice 9.3% vs 10% (7.5% harder this cycle)

Stanford 4.3% EST vs 5.19% (21% harder this cycle)

Swarthmore 7.8% vs 8.8% (12% harder)

Tufts 11% vs 16.3% (48% harder)

University of Pennsylvania 5.68% versus 8.07% (42% harder)

USC 12.4% vs 15.9% (28% harder to get into)

UVA 20.6% unchanged for 2025

Vanderbilt 6.7% vs 10.4% (55% harder to get into)

Villanova 25% vs 29% 9 (16% harder to get into)

Washington U. St.Louis 13% vs 12.8% 9(Slightly easier this cycle)

Wellesley 16% vs 19% 9 (29% harder to get into)

William & Mary 33% vs 42% (30% harder to get into)

Williams 8% vs 12.6% (57% harder to get into)

Yale University 4.62% versus 6.52% (41% harder)