The College offered admission to 2,180 students for the Class of 2016 out of a pool of 23,110 applicants, signifying a record-low acceptance rate of 9.4 percent, according to a College press release. The total accepted students include 465 students admitted through the early decision process in December.
Accepted applicants to the Class of 2016 represent all 50 states and 49 countries. The number of admitted international students comprising 9.3 percent of total accepted students is the highest since the Class of 2013.
"They are students who value the College's commitment to undergraduate education, who will take advantage and add to the array of research opportunities and who look forward to working side-by-side with Dartmouth faculty who are breaking new ground in their academic fields," Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said in the release.
Forty-six percent of accepted students are students of color. Of the admitted students, 48 percent are valedictorians and 12.7 percent are salutatorians of their high school classes, according to the press release.
The College estimates that half of the Class of 2016 will receive financial aid and plans on awarding more than $80 million in need-based scholarships.
"As always, we are committed to working with families to help keep Dartmouth affordable and accessible for students," Laskaris said in the release. "We will match any need-based financial aid awards from our Ivy peers. We want students to base their matriculation decision on what is the right fit' for them, in terms of their academic and extracurricular aspirations, and not on the small differences in financial aid they receive."
The College plans on enrolling between 1,100 and 1,110 students in the fall, according to the press release.
The Admissions Office accepted 9.7 percent of applicants for the Class of 2015 and 11.7 percent of applicants for the Class of 2014.
All eight Ivy League institutions released admissions figures on Thursday. Harvard University accepted 5.9 percent of applicants, while Yale University accepted 6.8 percent, according to The Harvard Crimson and the Yale Daily News. Princeton University admitted 7.9 percent of applicants, and Brown University, Columbia University and Cornell University accepted 9.6 percent, 7.4 percent and 16.2 percent, respectively, the schools' daily newspapers reported. The University of Pennsylvania admitted 12.3 percent of applicants for the Class of 2016, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The acceptance rate for each institution marked an all-time low with the exception of Columbia, which saw an increase to 7.4 percent from 6.8 percent for the Class of 2015, according to the Columbia Spectator.
