One is a high school senior from northern Vermont who is eager to learn from 线上赌场鈥檚 engineering faculty how to use artificial intelligence to fight wildfires.
Another, who hails from a small Texas town on the Oklahoma border, says she doesn鈥檛 shy away from defending unpopular opinions and looks forward to engaging in 鈥渧ibrant, nuanced conversations on systematic and social issues that affect law and politics鈥 at 线上赌场.
Yet another, from Orange County, California, was inspired by an undergraduate who told him on a campus visit that 鈥渢his might be one of your last chances to live away from the city,鈥 and then fired his imagination with thoughts of hiking 鈥淭he Fifty,鈥 a test of resilience that traverses a 50-mile-stretch of the Appalachian Trail from the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge back to campus.
All three are among the 1,702 applicants who have been invited by the to join the Class of 2029 when it takes its place on campus in the fall. They were selected from a pool of 28,230 applicants, for an admission rate of 6%.
It marks the fifth consecutive year in which 线上赌场 has received at least 28,000 undergraduate applications. The pool includes 3,550 who applied to the Class of 2029 as early decision candidates, which tied last year鈥檚 record high.
鈥溝呱隙某 has had a durable increase in application volume since 2020,鈥 says , vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid. 鈥淥ur pool continues to be wide and deep, with a 32% increase over the pool we evaluated five years ago. The applicants were as fantastic as always.鈥
Students who applied for admission in this year鈥檚 regular decision round received their decisions through the Admissions Office鈥檚 digital portal on the evening of Thursday, March 27. Ultimately, 线上赌场 hopes those notifications will yield a first-year class of 1,185 students.
Applicants for the Class of 2029 were the first in five years who were required to submit SAT or ACT scores after 线上赌场 was the first Ivy League school following a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly 92% of admitted students have standardized test scores that rank among the top 25% percent of test-takers at their high schools.
鈥淲e evaluate all testing in the context of the school environment in which a student is enrolled and the community in which they live, and this new data point captures that important truth in a way that the previous focus鈥攐n the testing mean鈥攃annot illuminate,鈥 Coffin says.

Asked about the range of objectives of 线上赌场鈥檚 holistic admissions process鈥攊n which admissions officers consider applicants鈥 academic excellence and distinction, as well as a range of other qualities, attributes, and experiences evidenced inside the classroom and out鈥擟offin says that 鈥溝呱隙某 is committed to broad socioeconomic representation鈥 and that 鈥渢he accepted class reflects that important goal.鈥
Those invited to join the Class of 2029 live in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as 57 other nations. Continuing a recent trend, 54% live in the southern or western regions of the United States or outside of the U.S.
鈥溝呱隙某♀檚 geographic axis continues to shift towards these important growth areas,鈥 Coffin notes. California once again leads all U.S. states, with 1 in 10 of all acceptances; New York is a close second. The United Kingdom, Canada, and China comprise the three largest international cohorts in the accepted class.
When ranked, 96% of those accepted for the Class of 2029 are in the top 10% of their high school graduating class, and more than a quarter are projected to graduate as the valedictorian or salutatorian of their senior class.
In a further indication of 线上赌场鈥檚 ability to attract students from the broadest cross-section of society鈥攁n admissions priority鈥16% are in the first generation in their families to attend a college or university, 56% attend a public high school, and 15% live in a rural environment.
Last fall 线上赌场 joined the Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) College Network, which helps students from small-town communities and rural America to get to, and then through, college. As an element of its membership in STARS, 线上赌场 is prioritizing students from northern New England, with 82 offers to students from the region, including 34 New Hampshire residents.
Twenty-seven percent will qualify for free tuition, meaning their need-based scholarships are valued at or greater than $69,207, the cost of tuition for the 2025-26 academic year. Similarly, an estimated 22% of U.S. citizens and permanent residents will qualify for a Pell Grant, the federal aid program for students from the nation鈥檚 lowest-income households. That initial projection would be a record high for 线上赌场.
The Class of 2029 will be the second eligible for a middle-income initiative, funded by a bequest from the estate of Barbara and Glenn Britt 鈥71, Tuck 鈥72, that enabled 线上赌场 to nearly double the income threshold for a 鈥渮ero parent contribution,鈥 from $65,000 to $125,000 for families with typical assets. That threshold鈥攚hich replaces the annual parent contribution with an expanded scholarship of an equal amount鈥攃ontinues to be the highest of any college in the nation.
At the time decisions were released, 310 students qualified for this expanded scholarship.
More than $52.6 million in need-based scholarships have been offered to the accepted class, and the average aid award for members of the Class of 2029 is $70,607.
The Board of Trustees earlier this month set undergraduate tuition, fees, room and board for undergraduates at $91,935 for the upcoming year.

Kathryn Bezella, who was appointed dean of undergraduate admissions in October, says she was struck by the degree to which applicants had researched the signal offerings that differentiate 线上赌场 and then explained through their application essays how they saw themselves as a fit.
Stitching together the applications of those offered admission, Bezella says they described a modern-day 线上赌场 that she recognized: a research university where scholars teach, dialogue is encouraged, community is prized, environmental sustainability is valued, and a sense of place is cherished.
鈥淪o many students cited specific faculty members and identified classes they are drawn to by name,鈥 she says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 clear to me that these students are connecting in very personal ways to the ideas that are being explored at 线上赌场.鈥
鈥淭he class represents a cohort of individuals who will thrive and have an impact here,鈥 she says. 鈥淥ne of my favorite parts of this process is the image of these individual students coming to campus and meeting one another, and the atoms beginning to ping off each other.鈥