20 Colleges with Lowest Acceptance Rates for Class of 2013

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<p>Middlebury – 22% – 6904</p>

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<p>Cooper union - 9% </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cooper.edu/administration/admissions/QuickFacts08-09.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cooper.edu/administration/admissions/QuickFacts08-09.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Harvard – 7% – 29,112 applications
Yale – 7.5% – 26,000
Stanford – 7.6% – 30,428
Princeton – 9.79% – 21,964
Columbia – 9.82% – 24428
MIT – 10.2% – 15661
Brown – 10.8% – 24988
Dartmouth – 12% – 18130
Amherst – 15.1% - 7667
Claremont McKenna College – 15.7%
Pomona – 15.7%
Duke University – 17%
Swarthmore – 17% – 5574 [need exact to tenths]
UPenn – 17.11% – 22939
Bowdoin College – 18.6% – 5,940
Vanderbilt University – 18.9%
Cornell – 19.1% – 34381
Williams College – 20.6% – 6017
UCLA – 21.4% – 46104
UC: Berkeley – 21.6% – 48640
Middlebury – 22% – 6904 </p>

<p>Still need numbers on:
WashU
Georgetown
Rice
CalTech
Johns Hopkins
…and maybe some others</p>

<p>Kwiji: that’s last year’s numbers. Do you have this year’s?</p>

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<p>According to their admitted students’ website, Pomona had 6,149 applications</p>

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<p>How about SUNY Binghamton? I believe this year they had 32,000 applications for roughly 2000 spots.</p>

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<p>Wharton was 10%. An admissions officer told me.</p>

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<p>bump 10 chars</p>

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<p><a href=“http://applicationbootcamp.com/wp-test/hcc/ivy-league-admissions-statistics/[/url]”>http://applicationbootcamp.com/wp-test/hcc/ivy-league-admissions-statistics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Even though this isn’t exactly a major college, Deep Springs has an 11% admit rate.</p>

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<p>[Rice</a> University | News & Media](<a href=“http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=12655]Rice”>http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=12655)</p>

<p>11,172 applicants - 2,487 admits ~ 22.26%</p>

<p>925 accepting spots ~ 37.19% yield (which might decrease slightly, depending on waitlist activity)</p>

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<p>So far all the Georgetown data is either old or incorrect. i was accepted this year, and this information comes directly from the acceptance letter. “while more than 18,600 applied for admission, only 3,485 were offered a place in the Class of 2013” THUS the OVERALL GU acceptance rate is 18.7%.
However the individual schools acceptance rates are:
College of Arts & Sciences = 18%
Business School = 20%
Nursing School = 20%
School of Foreign Services = 19%</p>

<p>The aforementioned data is corroborated by:
[Vox</a> Populi » Who got accepted to Georgetown University in 2009?](<a href=“http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2009/04/02/who-got-accepted-to-georgetown-university-in-2009/]Vox”>http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2009/04/02/who-got-accepted-to-georgetown-university-in-2009/)</p>

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<p>Many of these schools got a big boost when they switched to the common application, like Brown and Penn. I think Columbia is the only one that hasn’t yet…It’s just a matter of time I guess.</p>

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<p>It’s fun to look at these lists, but as others have warned - don’t take them too seriously.</p>

<p>Williams’ acceptance rate for the class of 2013: 20.2%
Williams’ acceptance rate for the class of 2012: 17% </p>

<p>Must have been a more selective (read, “better”) school last year, right?</p>

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<p>^No, I think it was because they had a decrease in applications this year.</p>

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<p>No. Williams regularly competes with HYPS and the rest of the Ivy League for students. Since the endowments and financial aid programs at the latter are well-known and better-advertised, given the current economic situation, the Williams committee knew it would lose badly to those schools, and needed to accept more students to fill the class.</p>

<p>Amherst didn’t suffer nearly as much because it is often willing to bend the standards significantly for the sake of diversity.</p>

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<p>Sorry, I was joking. That’s why I said “don’t take them too seriously.” My kid goes there. Obviously, nothing much changes on a campus in one year. And actually, the Dean of admissions laid part of the drop in applications at the foot of the new essay requirement </p>

<p>My point was that one statistic, viewed in isolation, doesn’t tell you a whole lot. I guess I should learn to affix those annoying stickies to provide emotional context.</p>

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<p>Williams’ applications were down 20% this past year…</p>

<p>[For</a> Top Colleges, Economy Has Not Reduced Interest (or Made Getting in Easier) - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“For Top Colleges, Economy Has Not Reduced Interest (or Made Getting in Easier) - The New York Times”>For Top Colleges, Economy Has Not Reduced Interest (or Made Getting in Easier) - The New York Times)</p>

<p>I am also surprised Penn’s apps went up only 4% since they went to the common application. Presumably that would have boosted the numbers…</p>

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<p>^Penn’s applications did not increase by 4%. Rather, Penn received four more applications this year than last, for an increase of 0.0001%.</p>

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<p>College – Accept Rate – Number of Apps</p>

<p>Harvard – 7% – 29112
Yale – 7.5% – 26000
Stanford – 7.6% – 30428
Princeton – 9.79% – 21964
Columbia – 9.82% – 24428
MIT – 10.2% – 15661
Brown – 10.8% – 24988
Dartmouth – 12% – 18130
Amherst – 15.1% - 7667
Claremont McKenna College – 15.7%
Pomona – 15.7% – 6149
Duke University – 17%
Swarthmore – 17% – 5574 [need exact to tenths]
UPenn – 17.11% – 22939
Bowdoin College – 18.6% – 5,940
Georgetown University - 18.7%
Vanderbilt University – 18.9%
Cornell – 19.1% – 34381
Williams College – 20.6% – 6017
UCLA – 21.4% – 46104
UC-Berkeley – 21.6% – 48640
Middlebury – 22% – 6904
Rice - 22.26% - 11,172</p>

<p>Still need numbers on:
WashU
CalTech
Johns Hopkins
…and maybe some others</p>

<p>We’re almost done!! :)</p>

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<p>I think princeton’s admit rate is a little on the high side (compared to its peers) because it is also expanding the size of it’s freshman class and admitted more kids than ever before</p>