
The Curtis Institute of Music has seen its overall acceptance rate decline to 7.0% for the application year 2023, with 31 out of 446 applicants being accepted. This marks a decrease from 9.6% in 2022, where 40 applicants were accepted from 414 submissions. The trend shows a significant drop in acceptance rates over the past few years, with rates as low as 2.0% in 2020, when only 14 of 574 applicants were admitted. Historically, the most competitive year noted was 2021, with an acceptance rate of just 5.0%.