Historical Acceptance Rates

The Juilliard School's overall acceptance rate has shown a downward trend from 23.8% in 2015 to 7.96% for the application year 2024, reflecting increasing selectivity. In the past three years, acceptance rates have declined significantly from 11.47% in 2022 to 8.79% in 2023, and now to 7.96%, with the number of applicants peaking at 12,009 in 2023 and landing at 11,803 in 2024. This competitive landscape illustrates the growing difficulty for applicants, as exemplified by the substantial increase in the number of applications over the years, from 5,676 in 2015 to nearly 12,000 recently.