<p>The FAQ said that there were over 5300 applicants, with less than 700 accepted.</p>
<p>That comes out to around 12.2%.</p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>EDIT: "This year, more than 5,300 Restrictive Early Action applicants were considered for admission. We were able to offer admission to fewer than 700."</p>
<p>Restrictive Early Action FAQs : Stanford University</p>
<p>Holy **** that's low.</p>
<p>Wow, that is ridiculously low. Where is the link?</p>
<p>I got 13.1% from CC, considering it's also (for the most part) on the higher end of results.</p>
<p>That's crazy though...two years ago wasn't it nearing 20%???</p>
<p>where is this from??</p>
<p>Nvm I just recalculated it and CC acceptance is around 20%...for now</p>
<p>"This year, more than 5,300 Restrictive Early Action applicants were considered for admission. We were able to offer admission to fewer than 700."</p>
<p>Restrictive</a> Early Action FAQs : Stanford University</p>
<p>The stats are ridiculous this year -- for the past three years, my school's Stanford early accept rate has been 46%. This year it's like 10%.</p>
<p>i find it strange that stanford reduced its acceptance rate the year early apps exploded by 18%.
makes me question the school's judgment even more.
but perhaps i'm just bitter.</p>
<p>Stanford didn't reduce its acceptance rate. It only has x amounts of slots ea and rd. The fact that more people applied caused the percentage reduction. Just bad luck for great pool of applicants</p>
<p>actually no.
stanford accepted less than 700 this year scea. usually it's in the 750s.</p>
<p>I read somewhere in this forum that because Stanford accepted over 750 students, people over enrolled and that caused some problems.</p>
<p>I don't know how to react to the decision. I haven't even told my parents. Advice?</p>
<p>^^ Are your parents going to college or you? Honestly...</p>
<p>They accepted less than 700 because they have been over enrolled by 50-100 students for the past two years and will have a housing crisis if enrollment does not drop.</p>
<p>so are they going to choose more people from RD pool or Deferred EA if they need to?</p>
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i find it strange that stanford reduced its acceptance rate the year early apps exploded by 18%.
makes me question the school's judgment even more.
but perhaps i'm just bitter.
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<p>As others said, it's overenrollment. Last year (class of 2011), they overenrolled; then, for the class of 2012, they accepted roughly the same number of people with a lower expected yield, but when the yield was actually the highest ever, they overenrolled again. As the administration has stated, Stanford can't afford to overenroll again. Thus, it's probably going to accept even fewer people in the RD round and then go to the waitlist if necessary, erring on the safe side, as Harvard et al did.</p>
<p>Stanford's already in a housing crisis, and the overenrollment doesn't help. The fact that the applications surged about 1/5 is what makes this especially unfortunate.</p>
<p>However, you'll be glad to know that Stanford has begun discussion on expanding its incoming class in the future. I'd say Stanford is pretty wise about this issue.</p>
<p>^ No offense, but why would we be glad if they expanded their future incoming class? We already got rejected, doesn't help us. Perhaps our family members, i guesss.</p>
<p>Sorry if this comes off as a little pricky, I think I'm still a bit bitter.</p>
<p>It was in reply to this comment: "makes me question the school's judgment even more." The person doesn't need to question Stanford's judgment, because it's already moving toward a solution.</p>
<p>Although I'm not happy about the intense selectivity, I really hope they don't increase class sizes. In this economy the last thing we need is a larger class size to spend 100k per student on.</p>