Class of 2024 Seniors Accepted to Over 49 US Colleges

By Teresa Fang / May 21, 2024

Congratulations, Class of ’24! (The Stentorian/NCSSM)

The Class of 2024 seniors were accepted to over 49 colleges in the United States to the Class of 2028 in the first admissions cycle since the fall of affirmative action prohibited colleges from considering race during the process.

According to Dean of Counseling Lori Newnam, NCSSM Counseling Services worked with seniors from May 1-6 to complete their final transcript requests. After May 1, seniors self-reported their decisions to the department, which has released data on the colleges the class of 2024 committed to for The Stentorian. As of May 14, 2024, college commitment data was available for 289 out of the total 317 graduating seniors, including early decision, early action, and regular decision commitments:

college	city	state	final choice
Barnard College	New York	NY	1
Bates College	Lewiston	ME	1
Boston College	Chestnut Hill	MA	1
Boston University	Boston	MA	1
Brown University	Providence	RI	1
California Institute of Technology	Pasadena	CA	1
Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh	PA	1
Columbia University in the City of New York	New York	NY	2
Cornell University	Ithaca	NY	2
Davidson College	Davidson	NC	2
Drexel University	Philadelphia	PA	1
Duke University	Durham	NC	17
Elizabethtown College	Elizabethtown	PA	1
Florida Atlantic University	Boca Raton	FL	1
Georgetown University	Washington	DC	1
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	Atlanta	GA	6
Harvard University	Cambridge	MA	3
Howard University	Washington	DC	1
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD	1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	MA	5
Middlebury College	Middlebury	VT	1
New York University	New York	NY	1
North Carolina State University at Raleigh	Raleigh	NC	39
Northwestern University	Evanston	IL	1
Princeton University	Princeton	NJ	1
Rice University	Houston	TX	1
Saint Joseph’s University	Philadelphia	PA	1
St Olaf College	Northfield	MN	1
Stanford University	Stanford	CA	3
Swarthmore College	Swarthmore	PA	1
Tufts University	Medford	MA	1
University of California-Berkeley	Berkeley	CA	1
University of Chicago	Chicago	IL	1
University of Delaware	Newark	DE	1
University of Florida	Gainesville	FL	1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Champaign	IL	1
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor	MI	1
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	NC	163
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Charlotte	NC	3
University of North Carolina Wilmington	Wilmington	NC	1
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	PA	5
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	Pittsburgh	PA	1
University of Southern California	Los Angeles	CA	1
University of Toledo	Toledo	OH	1
Vanderbilt University	Nashville	TN	1
Wake Forest University	Winston-Salem	NC	1
Washington and Lee University	Lexington	VA	1
Western Carolina University	Cullowhee	NC	1
Yale University	New Haven	CT	3

Data acquired by The Stentorian from Counseling Services. (The Stentorian)

Counseling Services is still in the midst of processing acceptance data, and according to Program Assistant Pam Oxendine, the full data sheet will be released in June.

78.5% of graduating seniors staying in-state

Compared to last year, more seniors are staying in-state than going out-of-state, making up 78.8% of the graduating class. The two states with the greatest number of graduating seniors are Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, at 3.81% (11 students) each out of the total reporting seniors.

This year, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) received a total of 163 committed NCSSM students, making up 56.4% of the total reporting seniors. In 2023, there were 169 commits. This marks the first decrease in committed UNC-CH students since 2021, the first year of in-person schooling after the pandemic. As the number of total applications to UNC-CH has been increasing by a steady 5.75% every year, it would not be a surprise to see more applications to UNC-CH than ever before.

Ivy league, MIT, and Stanford commits

Upending decades of legal precedents, the Supreme Court ruled in June 2023 that race-conscious college admissions programs at Harvard University and UNC-CH are unconstitutional, causing higher-education institutions to shift to race-neutral policies. NCSSM students going to Ivy League, MIT, and Stanford made up 7.61% of all graduating seniors. 

College	# Admits in 2024	Av. # Admits since 2020	avg. # accepted since 2020	avg. % increase in applications since 2020
Harvard	3	2.75	4.75	5.12%
UPenn	5	2.5	6	15.1%
Princeton	1	1	3.5	13.4%
Columbia	2	5	9	18.9%
Cornell	2	4	10	12.2%
Brown	1	1.5	3.25	21.8%
Dartmouth	0	0.5	2	21.9%
MIT	5	5.5	6.25	9.84%
Stanford	3	1.25	3	8.71%

Data acquired by The Stentorian from Counseling Services and Naviance. (The Stentorian).

In the wake of the fall of affirmative action and the first cycle of some applicants admitted to the first test-required policies since 2020, the statistics for NCSSM graduating classes is not unusually different. Counseling Services did not release the statistics for race and ethnicity data (nor gender and socioeconomic details) for the graduating class to each college.