<p>Hey, I'm working at putting together a list of the top 20 or 25 colleges with the lowest acceptance rates for the class of 2013 out of curiousity. I have data from a few schools and would like your help with the rest, as I am sure many of you have it memorized for your school of choice! If you think a college might be in the top 20 or 25, put down their overall acceptance rate for this season. Once I have all the necessary data, I'll make a new thread with the list. Thanks!</p>
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<p>Claremont McKenna College -- 15.7%
Vanderbilt University -- 18.9%
Duke University -- ~17% (anyone have exact?)</p>
<p>It’s too early to know. Until all the waiting list movement has happened over the summer, and “summer melt” in enrollment, it’s unclear what any college’s official admission rate is. </p>
<p>Here’s a FAQ about timing of comparable information: </p>
<p>CURRENCY OF COMMON DATA SET INFORMATION </p>
<p>Each school year the colleges officially count their new freshman class AFTER the school year begins. (One college admission officer told me near the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year that his college counts on the tenth day of class in the new school year, which I think is industry-standard practice. Whatever the date, usually each college does this on the same date each year.) Sometime around the turn of the calendar year (that is, in January during the school year) a college’s figures for that freshman class begin to be posted on the College Board website, and possibly on the college’s own website in the form of a Common Data Set filing. So what you see early in the school year on the College Board descriptions of colleges is mostly information about the entering freshman class that entered in fall of the PREVIOUS school year (for example, information about new enrolled college students from high school class of 2008 is available to applicants in fall of 2009). That is the MOST RECENT information you have to go on as you apply for colleges yourself in fall of 2009, as a member of high school class of 2009. It is always like this–there is always a built-in lag between the year you can look up and the year you are living in as a student. Sometimes colleges post press releases right after they admit a new class in the spring, but those press releases are not comparable from college to college in the way that Common Data Set information is.</p>
<p>Here is the top 25 from Fall, 2006. Unfortunately I have updated some with Fall 2008 figures, and not others. I don’t think very much will have changed from 2006 to 2008 in terms of ranking, and I expect just about every school to have become 10-15% harder to get into over that span.</p>
<p>School/%admitted 2006 (with some 2008 date intermixed)</p>
<p>Harvard 7
Yale 8
Princeton 10
Cooper Union 10
Stanford 9
Columbia 12
MIT 13
Brown 14
Dartmouth 16
Caltech 17
Penn 18
Pomona 18
Williams 19
Amherst 19
Swarthmore 19
Wash U 21
Georgetown 22
Duke 22
Middlebury 22
Bowdoin 22
Claremont 22
UC Berkeley 23
Rice 24
Cornell 25
UCLA 25</p>
<p>U.S. Naval Academy was around 11-12%, but there was a 50% increase in applications this year (from 10,000 to 15,000 roughly), meaning their acceptance rate dropped to about 8% this year</p>
<p>NealJ2k – any reason you are omitting Cooper Union from your list?</p>
<p>Also, Williams College is off. Don’t know how or why, but it always tracks very close to Amherst/Swarthmore. I suspect different years or different methodologies were used by whomever collected that figure.</p>
<p>Re: Naval Academy – it is that pesky Congressional recommendation that makes it so difficult to gain admission. There are very few who can be admitted without it.</p>
<p>Dunnin: I don’t have data for Cooper Union. Once I get the data, I’ll add it to the list
I’ll keep in mind the Williams College numbers and look for the correct amount.</p>
<p>OK – just checked The Cooper Union’s website. On ave. 2,850 applicants, 275 acceptances and 220 matriculants – 9.6% acceptance rate and 80% yield. I suspect this year (2009) the # of applications went way up and the acceptance rate will be under 9%</p>
