Figure 1: Graph of acceptance rates from the 1999-2000 Carleton College admission cycle to the 2023-2024 admission cycle.
Figure 2: Total students applied to Carleton College versus total students admitted to Carleton College from the 1999-2000 admission cycle to the 2023-2024 admission cycle.
2022-23 (Class of 2026):
The 2022-23 cycle had the highest total number of applicants and lowest acceptance rate in Carleton’s history up until that point.
- 8583 students applied and only 1427 were admitted (seen in Figure 2) leading to a 16.6% acceptance rate (seen in Figure 1).
- People that took gap years for COVID applied during this cycle.