Stanford acceptance rate
Stanford, CA · Last updated 2026-05-21
At a glance
Stanford's acceptance rate is 3.7% for the Class of 2027 — the most recent officially reported figure.
Stanford famously stopped breaking out the headline number. The market is filling in the blanks anyway.
What is Stanford's acceptance rate?
The last officially reported number was 3.7% for the Class of 2027. Stanford stopped publishing official admit-rate data after that cycle, citing concerns about the rankings arms race. Every later figure comes from Common Data Set filings rather than press releases.
Five-year acceptance rate history
| Class | Acceptance rate |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.95% |
| 2024 | 4.26% |
| 2025 | 3.95% |
| 2026 | 3.67% |
| 2027 | 3.70% |
What this means for prediction markets
Stanford-on-Stanford markets have a resolution problem: there's no consistent public source. Markets resolving on Stanford's admit rate typically point to the Common Data Set, published the following winter — which means longer time-to-resolution than at Harvard or MIT.
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