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The University admitted 9.2 percent of applicants to the class of 2017, the second-lowest acceptance rate in Brown’s history. A total of 2,649 out of 28,919 applicants received acceptance letters to the University’s 250th incoming class, according to a University press release.

This year’s acceptance rate is lower than that of every previous class except for the 2011 admission cycle, when the Admission Office accepted 8.7 percent of applicants to the class of 2015. About 9.6 percent of applicants were admitted last year to the class of 2016, when 28,742 students applied. Students who applied in this year’s regular decision process received their decisions online Thursday at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The Admission Office already accepted 558 students in the early decision process in December, The Herald previously reported.

Forty-five percent of admitted students in the class of 2017 identify as students of color, and 17.5 percent are first-generation college students, both record-high numbers. Students of color include African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and American Indians. Approximately two-thirds of the admitted class expressed intent to apply for financial aid, about the same percentage as in previous years.

All other Ivy League universities released regular decision admission results Thursday. Six of the eight Ivies — Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale — had record-low acceptance rates this year, while Dartmouth had not announced its acceptance rate as of the time of publication. Columbia admitted 6.89 percent of applicants this year, Cornell admitted 15.2 percent of applicants and Harvard accepted 5.8 percent of applicants. Penn admitted 12.1 percent of applicants, Princeton accepted 7.29 percent of applicants and Yale accepted 6.72 percent of its applicants.

Students from all 50 states were admitted to Brown, with the most represented states being California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Texas, respectively. Accepted students hail from 83 nations, three more countries than last year’s admitted pool. China once again had the most accepted applicants from a foreign country. Canada, India, South Korea and the United Kingdom rounded out the top five foreign nations with the most admitted applicants.

The University received a record number of applications from India this year, The Herald previously reported. Of admitted students, 58 percent indicated they intend to concentrate in either the physical or life sciences, according to the University press release. Engineering, biology, computer science, international relations and economics accounted for the top five most popular intended concentrations, according to the press release.

These results are mostly unchanged from last year’s concentration statistics, except that computer science overtook English as a top five concentration.

The University anticipates 1,515 members to join the class of 2017 for a predicted yield of 57 percent. Admitted students must decide whether to accept their offer of admission by May

See: http://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/04/01/u-accepts-second-lowest-percentage-of-applicants-ever/