Admission to Dartmouth, Dartmouth Admissions, Dartmouth Admission

Admission to Dartmouth stood at 7.9% overall for the Class of 2023.

Dartmouth College, also known as “The College on the Hill” was founded by a Puritan minister, Eleazar Wheelock, in 1769. One of the eight member institutions of the Ivy League, Dartmouth is the smallest school in the Ancient Eight. As Secretary of State and Dartmouth alumnus Daniel Webster famously once said in the landmark Dartmouth College v. Woodward case, “It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!” And love it they do. As do prospective students…even if the Dartmouth College admissions numbers are getting lower and lower.

As a student applying for admission to Dartmouth, you would be hard-pressed to find a college with a more loyal and passionate alumni base. You would be hard-pressed to find a college where so many alumni give back to their college and forge lifelong friendships with their classmates. Why’s that? Because for four years, students are in the middle of nowhere – in tiny yet picturesque Hanover, New Hampshire – where there is very little to do. There is the Hopkins Center to see a play or a band. There’s Occum Pond to do some ice skating. There’s Thompson Arena to check out Dartmouth’s always powerful hockey teams. There are fraternities. There are secret societies. There’s The Green to do some reading on a perfect New England spring day. Being as Dartmouth isn’t in a thriving metropolis, students get close with each other (especially in light of the freezing temperatures and major snowfalls). And these friendships prove quite special.

Snowball fights on The Green. Running around the bonfire as a freshman hundreds of times with the college community circled around you. The school’s famous Winter Carnivals that once attracted the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Green Key Weekend. Hikes up Mount Moosilauke. These are some of Dartmouth’s favorite things. It is a school rich in tradition and it offers one of the finest — if not the finest — education in the world. In 2005, Dartmouth College was named by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton to be one of the ten most enduring institutions of the 20th and 21st centuries. According to the report, “‘Since its inception, Dartmouth has set an example for many universities and colleges in America’ and that the College ‘has been judicious in its planning during the late 20th century.'”

Dartmouth students are, in a word, happy. They love their College on the Hill. They love learning foreign languages with the Rassias Method — even if it involves waking up for early morning drill sessions. They love studying abroad on LSA’s and FSP’s. They love rubbing the nose of the statue of Warner Bentley in the Hopkins Center (it was even featured on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” which was created by Dartmouth alumna Shonda Rhimes).

They love their DOC Trips which they take before orientation freshman year (days in the wilderness kayaking, canoeing, or hiking, etc. with new classmates to get to know one another). They love the outdoors — even if this means wearing a big, fluffy jacket throughout much of the year. They love the departments of economics, psychological and brain sciences, government, and history. They love Dr. Seuss and Robert Frost (both attended Dartmouth). And they love the many nationally ranked Big Green Division I athletic teams. Heck, they even have their own ski slopes.

For the Class of 2023, admission to Dartmouth decreased from the previous year with the overall acceptance rate of 7.9%. In the Regular Decision round 6.1% of students were admitted, while in the Early Decision round 23.2% of applicants got the nod. 21,176 students applied via Regular Decision to Dartmouth, while 2,474 additional students applied via Early Decision. This most enduring institution that boasts the latest two Secretaries of the Treasury, the inventor of BASIC, the CEO of GE, and is even the fictitious alma mater of Stephen Colbert, is one of America’s finest. And we anticipate the Dartmouth College admissions numbers to be even lower next year.

Dartmouth College Admissions Statistics

Dartmouth College Overall Accept. Rate Regular Decision Accept. Rate Regular Decision Apps Accepted Regular Decision Apps Received Early Decision / Action Accept. Rate Percent of Class Filled by Early Apps Early Decision / Action Apps Received Early Decision / Action Apps Accepted Expected Number of Students to Enroll Total Apps Received Total Apps Accepted
2026 6.24% 4.7% 1,207 25,703 21.27% 48.7% 2,633 560 1,150 28,336 1,767
2025 6.2% 4.5% 1,158 25,693 21.2% 51.4% 2,664 591 1,150 28,357 1,749
2024 8.8% 6.9% 1,334 19,325 26.4% 47.6% 2,069 547 1,150 21,394 1,881
2023 7.9% 6.1% 1,302 21,176 23.2% 49.9% 2,474 574 1,150 23,650 1,876
2022 8.7% 6.9% 1,360 19,763 24.9% 49.1% 2,270 565 1,150 22,033 1,925
2021 10.4% 8.5% 1,537 18,035 27.8% 47% 1,999 555 1,180 20,034 2,092
2020 10.5% 9.0% 1,682 18,748 25.6% 44.1% 1,927 494 1,120 20,675 2,176
2019 10.3% 8.8% 1,637 18,645 26% 43.1% 1,859 483 1,120 20,504 2,120
2018 11.5% 9.9% 1,751 17,618 27.9% 42.3% 1,678 469 1,110 19,296 2,220
2017 10.0% 8.6% 1,788 20,842 29.4% 41.4% 1,574 464 1,120 22,416 2,252
2016 9.4% 8.0% 1,715 21,310 25.8% 42.1% 1,800 465 1,105 23,110 2,180
2015 9.7% 8.4% 1,734 20,626 25.2% 40.4% 1,759 444 1,100 22,385 2,178
2014 11.5% 9.9% 1,704 17,184 25.5% 42.3% 1,594 461 1,090 18,778 2,165
2013 12% 10.8% 1,783 16,559 25.5% 35% 1,571 401 1,090 18,130 2,184
2012 13.2% 11.8% 1,790 15,108 28.0% 36.7% 1,428 400 1,090 16,536 2,190
2011 15.3% 13.8% 1,785 12,891 29.6% 35.2% 1,285 380 1,080 14,176 2,165
2010 15.4% 13.9% 1,752 12,620 30.2% 37% 1,317 398 1,075 13,937 2,150
2009 16.9% 15.1% 1,753 11,586 33.9% 36.9% 1,171 397 1,075 12,757 2,150
2008 18.3% 16.8% 1,759 10,455 30% 35.4% 1,278 384 1,085 11,733 2,143
2007 17.7% 16% 1,705 10,636 32.4% 37% 1,217 394 1,065 11,853 2,099