Shorter University Historical Acceptance Rate

Historical Acceptance Rates

Shorter University has demonstrated a consistently high overall acceptance rate in recent years, with rates of 97% for both the application years 2022 and 2023, accepting 759 out of 783 applicants in 2023 and 849 out of 871 applicants in 2022. Historically, acceptance rates have declined from 63% in 2015, to 71% in 2020, and further to 81% in 2021. The most significant drop occurred between 2018 and 2019, where the acceptance rate decreased from 57% to 60%. This long-term trend highlights a shift towards a more selective admissions approach in the earlier part of the decade, followed by a stabilization in acceptance levels since 2021.