
Barnard College's Regular Decision acceptance rate for the application year 2024 stands at 7.9%, with 940 out of 11,803 applicants being accepted. This represents a decline from 8.8% in the previous year (2023), where there were 12,009 applicants and 1,056 accepted. Over the past five years, acceptance rates have generally decreased, dropping from 13.6% in 2020 to 11.5% in 2021, indicating a trend of increasing selectivity. The most competitive year in this period was 2021, which saw the highest number of admitted students at 1,192 but with a lower acceptance rate than both 2019 and 2020.