<p>Early</a> Admission Returns to Princeton, and So Do the Applicants - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>i feel like this is good news? if 800 are accepted (which seems to be the number going around for SCEA admits), that’d be a 22.55% acceptance rate. not bad</p>
<p>As a current Harvard SCEA’er, I’m wondering how many applications Harvard received for its early round of admissions. 
But given Princeton’s statistics, I’d estimate ~4,000.</p>
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<p>No, that won’t be the case. Earlier in the summer I predicted the following for SCEA numbers:</p>
<p>Princeton: 3000-4000
Yale: 4000-5000
Stanford: 4000-5000
Harvard: 5000-6000</p>
<p>I would expect much higher (5000+) numbers for Harvard.</p>
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<p>That might be a little generous, but sure let’s go with it. Keep in mind ‘unhooked’ early applicants tend to be very strong in their own right.</p>
<p>How many non legacy non recruits will they accept early?</p>
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<p>I was just giving the general acceptance rate. I assume that when all “hooked” applicants are accounted for, the acceptance rate for the average (by HYPS standards) applicant will drop down to the single digits, even with SCEA.</p>
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<p>I agree… looking at general data, Princeton will in all likelihood have the lowest # of early applicants in the HYPS pool</p>
<p>I would conjecture that, since there are 36 teams in all (19 men’s and 17 women’s), with just five recruits on average per team (low as that does not consider the large helmet sports), there could be up to 180 or more athletic recruits admitted SCEA. </p>
<p>The legacies would be added on to that number, so say add on another 100 plus. You also need to make space for great URM applicants, development cases, and faculty brats. Your number of unhooked slots have diminished quickly.</p>
<p>i know someone mentioned there will be a lot of NJ applicants. do you think decisions will be tougher for NJ if they want regional diversity or something?</p>
<p>Omg, that’s so high…</p>
<p>Well Yale had around 5200 both in 2010 and 2011, so I expect that number to go down to around 4000 probably.</p>
<p>Please see: [University</a> admits half of '08 early - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2004/01/07/9373/]University”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2004/01/07/9373/)</p>
<p>“In the past, about 15 percent of an entering class are sons or daughters of Princeton graduates.”</p>
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<li>If 15% of admitted Princeton students are legacies, that would mean Princeton admitted 342 legacies last year. (2282 admitted students X .15 = 342)</li>
<li>If recruited athletes have about the same percentages – a figure that has been documented many times over by admissions officers such as Michele Hernandez – that would mean Princeton admitted approximately 342 recruited athletes last year.</li>
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<p>Given those numbers: if most legacies and recruited athletes applied EA this year, that would mean that at least 600 students will be accepted. Which means, the acceptance rate for non-hooked students is . . . well, that calculation is beyond my math abilities, but I’m sure someone on this board can figure it out.</p>
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342 athletic recruits? What’s the yield on that number?..</p>
<p>If it were even 60%, 15% of the class would be an athlete of some kind…</p>
<p>^^^ See: [Getting</a> in: Athletes? road to admission - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/12/01/27054/]Getting”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/12/01/27054/)</p>
<p>According to this 2010 article, the yield for recruited athletes is closer to 93%.</p>
<p>6th Paragraph: “Between 92 and 94 percent of these applicants (recruited athletes) matriculate, Rapelye said. This rate is more than 35 percentage points higher than the overall yield for students admitted to the Class of 2014.”</p>
<p>gibby</p>
<p>I don’t think your figures are correct vis-a-vis legacy applicants. 12.3% of the class of 2015 are legacies. The class has approximately 1300 students which means approximately 160 students in the class are legacies. I would assume that the yield rate for legacies is quite high (probably over 80%), so probably approximately 180-200 accepted students are legacies. For this year, I doubt that all of them will apply early action, but I can’t imagine that more than 200 legacies will be accepted in the EA pool (and I would suspect that it would be considerably lower, as many will not apply, some will be deferred etc.)</p>
<p>Even if 400 out of 800 accepted EA is a legacy/recruit, it’s still an 11 percent acceptance rate for unhooked applicants. Not bad.</p>
<p>I think 400 out of 800 is an exaggerated estimate…</p>
<p>^^ Patriotbrady: They won’t know and your race will be listed as “Race or Ethnicity Unknown.” See page 3: <a href=“http://registrar.princeton.edu/university_enrollment_sta/common_cds2010.pdf[/url]”>http://registrar.princeton.edu/university_enrollment_sta/common_cds2010.pdf</a></p>
<p>decillion, i meant for it to be to illustrate that unhooked applicants aren’t screwed or anything. </p>
<p>any predictions on RA acceptance rates?</p>
<p>I’m a bit confused as to why everyone’s so nervous. It’s not like they’re going to accept all legacies (40% is the highest estimate), and most athletes aren’t recruited.</p>