By Teresa Fang / May 21, 2024
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 |
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% |
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.