
Tufts University reported an overall acceptance rate of 10.13% for the application year 2023, with 34,003 applicants and 3,444 students accepted. This marks a slight increase from the 9.7% acceptance rate in 2022 when they had 34,881 applicants and accepted 3,381. Over the past few years, the acceptance rate has varied, peaking at 16.3% in 2020 with 23,127 applicants, before declining to 11.43% for 2021 and 14.95% in 2019. The data indicates a general trend of increasing competitiveness, as acceptance rates have decreased over the past few application cycles.