<p>My dad (a CMC alum) got a call from the CMC alumni office to talk about the application process. And he said that the acceptance rate for this year was around 14%! And said that it will be the hardest liberal arts college to get into this year, more than Williams, Amherst, Middlebury or Swarthmore! Doesn't sound promising for me! </p>
<p>Just thought I would put that out there...</p>
<p>wow thats an impressive number</p>
<p>I wouldn’t put too much stock in that. This seems very much like a rumor. Going from 16% to 14% would be a really big jump.</p>
<p>I tend to agree with DLF but there are those who in the past may have preferred, say, UCLA over CMC for financial reasons but with the budget issues may now be willing to pony up more money for a less financially impacted school. So maybe there will be more kids applying. But a lower admit rate than all those mentioned (and what about Pomona) seems a little hard to swallow. We’ll soon see!</p>
<p>They probably had a slew of applicants this year.<br>
If there are ~ 700 admits out of ~ 5,000 applicants, that’d be 14%.</p>
<p>The admits/applicants for the past 6 years have been:
class of 2013 697/4,276 16%
class of 2012 800/3,670 22%
class of 2011 671/3,778 18%
class of 2010 805/3,593 22%
class of 2009 786/3,734 21%
class of 2008 766/3,528 22%</p>
<p>I can only assume that Pomona College will also have a dismal acceptance rate as well. D:</p>
<p>Whoa, there was a 6% decrease in the acceptance rate between 2012 and 2013!?
That’s outrageous!!</p>
<p>I believe that I heard that for the class of 2012 more students accepted admission than anticipated and therefore this class was larger than expected (320). I believe that a decision was made to accept fewer students for the class of 2013 to come closer to the target number for admission which I think was 280. There were 282 students in the class of 2013 at the start of the fall semester. This probably accounts for some of the difference.</p>
<p>Which is why I didn’t apply ultimately…lol.</p>
<p>I love that the Claremont McKenna’s class size is smaller than the class size at my high school.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>if it is 14% this year, that is not a 6% drop from last year. The class of 2013 had a 16% acceptance rate</p>
<p>So they had 4,264 applicants for 300 spots. Any idea on the acceptance rate?
Do they normally take more than double their intended class size?</p>
<p>If there were 4264 applications, I imagine the acceptance rate will be around 16%. I would have thought for sure there would have been an increase in applications. There were 4276 last year.</p>
<p>That’s the figure they’d put in the acceptance letter online.
I thought so too. We’ll have to wait for the official announcements.</p>
<p>If the yield is higher, which it could be given some aversion to the UCs this year, then the admit rate might drop enough to get down to 14%. Possible.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s true.
I was quite amazed to notice that last year’s acceptance rate for Williams was 20%, while CMC was 16%!</p>
<p>I just re-checked CMCs site (Institutional Research) which shows 3856 apps and 697 admits for 2009. That’s an 18.1% admit rate. So what am I doing wrong?</p>
<p>in 2009, for the class of 2013, there were 4276 applicants and 697 were admitted for an admissions rate of 16.3% this information was available this year under the freshman class profile, until today when they changed the statistics to reflect the batch of decisions that just went out. according to the website, there was a 17% admissions rate this year. Looks like it actually went up. [Freshman</a> Class Profile, Claremont McKenna College](<a href=“http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/admission/fr-class-profile.php]Freshman”>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/admission/fr-class-profile.php)</p>
<p>gekkoman- I did the same calcs last year with several CDS’s and discovered the same discrepancy, posting on another CMC thread. I recall that Xiggi, a recent CMC grad into general college admissions & stats, commented that CMC’s counting methodololgy was different for the CDS versus what they really considered apps as reported annually on their web site (i.e., link in post above)…not a terribly satisifying explanation to me, as the CDS’s intent in part is to normalize stats across schools to allow apple-to-apples comparisons, and CMC’s internal admit rate (the one with the most public fanfare) is apparently not comparable to everyone else’s who report their CDS admit rate.</p>
<p>^^Yeah. I found what you are referring to. Interesting.</p>