Toughest Tickets in Town? Yale's Grad School Gets Even Harder to Get Into

Every admissions season, prospective grad students submit their application data to share with the community. We review this data and look for trends. 

Here’s something that caught our eye.

With the latest data, Yale University’s rejection rate is higher than ever.

Yale has never been an “easy” school for potential graduate students, but we’ve never seen acceptance rates this low from this University.

Want to explore our findings?

We parsed more than 15 years of data. Yale’s acceptance rates for the full range of graduate programs usually hover around 30%. This is based on surveys submitted to The GradCafe, the largest repository of graduate admission surveys online.

However, that number plummeted in 2023—even lower than the especially competitive years of 2010, 2015, and 2020.

We dove into this, looking especially into the pandemic years. You can read our findings at The GradCafe.

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