Brandeis acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Brandeis admitted 4,430 of 9,756 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 45.4%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.
What did admitted applicants have? How to get into Brandeis counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Brandeis acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 9,756 | 4,430 | 45.4% | 744 | 16.8% |
| 2024-25 | 10,462 | 4,234 | 40.5% | 739 | 17.5% |
| 2023-24 | 11,282 | 3,986 | 35.3% | 865 | 21.7% |
Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.
Early decision at Brandeis
Brandeis waitlist
Brandeis SAT and ACT scores
What Brandeis says matters in admission
In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors Brandeis rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA
- Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, First generation
- Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, First generation
- Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
Brandeis testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional, as it has been since 2013. Applicants choose whether to have SAT or ACT scores considered, and merit scholarship consideration does not depend on submitting.
From Brandeis’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
C1 totals are the residency table totals. The 2023-24 C9 prints a composite SAT range but leaves EBRW blank.
Brandeis acceptance rate questions
- What is the Brandeis acceptance rate?
- Brandeis's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 9,756 first-year applicants and 4,430 admitted, an acceptance rate of 45.4%. It was 40.5% in 2024-25 and 35.3% in 2023-24.
- What is the Brandeis early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 242 of 680 early decision applicants were admitted (35.6%), against 45.4% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.
- What SAT scores do Brandeis students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1370 to 1470, and ACT submitters scored 31 to 34. 28.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Brandeis waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Brandeis offered 1,717 applicants a place on the waitlist; 771 accepted one, and 206 were admitted from it.
- Does Brandeis require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional, as it has been since 2013. Applicants choose whether to have SAT or ACT scores considered, and merit scholarship consideration does not depend on submitting.
Applying to Brandeis?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Brandeis says it weighs.
Source: Brandeis Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Brandeis. All official acceptance rates