Brown acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Brown admitted 2,710 of 42,774 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 6.3%. 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 Brown counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Brown acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 42,774 | 2,710 | 6.3% | 1,719 | 63.4% |
| 2024-25 | 48,904 | 2,638 | 5.4% | 1,719 | 65.2% |
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 Brown
Brown waitlist
Brown SAT and ACT scores
What Brown 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 Brown rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Extracurricular activities
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Extracurricular activities
Brown testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test required. Since the 2024-25 cycle, Brown has required SAT or ACT scores from first-year applicants and superscores either test.
From Brown’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
Brown publishes its Common Data Set as an interactive report covering 2025-26 and 2024-25, so two years are shown. C2 prints N/A for waitlist offered and accepted in both years.
Brown acceptance rate questions
- What is the Brown acceptance rate?
- Brown's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 42,774 first-year applicants and 2,710 admitted, an acceptance rate of 6.3%. It was 5.4% in 2024-25.
- What is the Brown early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 907 of 5,062 early decision applicants were admitted (17.9%), against 6.3% 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 Brown students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1470 to 1550, and ACT submitters scored 33 to 35. 77.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Brown waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Brown offered an unpublished number of applicants a place on the waitlist; the number who accepted is not published, and 295 were admitted from it.
- Does Brown require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test required. Since the 2024-25 cycle, Brown has required SAT or ACT scores from first-year applicants and superscores either test.
Applying to Brown?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Brown says it weighs.
Source: Brown Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Brown. All official acceptance rates