9.82% - Columbia admitted rate 2009

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<p>Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science admitted 9.82% of applicants overall, yielding its most selective undergraduate class.</p>

<p>The number of applicants reached a record high this year, with 25,428 applying to both schools, an increase of 13 percent over last year's 22,584. The College admitted 8.92 percent—making it slightly less selective than last year's 8.71 percent, perhaps due to a last-second 50-student enrollment increase—and SEAS admitted 14.42 percent of applicants, a lower proportion than last year's 17.6 percent.</p>

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<p>^yeah SEAS</p>

<p>class of '09 —> 26.7%
class of '10 —> 23.6%
class of '11 —> 18.6%
class of '12 —> 17.6%
class of '13 —> 14.4%</p>

<p>In 5 years the acceptance rate has halved, consistent and blistering. Well deserved.</p>

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<p>dcopy, can you give a source to that information. I like this last-second 50-student enrollment increase. Hopefully I am one of those 50.</p>

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<p>Here is the link.</p>

<p>[Columbia</a> admits most selective class with overall rate of 9.82 percent | Columbia Spectator](<a href=“http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/03/30/columbia-admits-most-selective-class-overall-rate-982-percent]Columbia”>Columbia admits most selective class with overall rate of 9.82 percent)</p>

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<p>"Captain Columbia, a middle-aged man wrapped in a light blue Columbia flag, made an appearance among a slew of admissions officers who escorted thick and thin envelopes into a UPS truck. They gathered ecstatically on College Walk at around 3:30 p.m. on Monday, and posed for many pictures to see the batch off into the homes of applicants that spanned 50 states and over 70 countries. "</p>

<p>I am soo scared</p>

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<p>damn confidentialcoll-that killed my selfconfidence.</p>

<p>i’m not getting into seas :(</p>

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<p>^it wasn’t me man, it was all of you who applied. And if you make it, it just means you are part of a that much more competitive group of students. </p>

<p>In other news, we might finally have a lower overall acceptance rate than princeton</p>

<p>approximations:</p>

<p>H: 7%
Stanford: 7.5%
Yale: 7.5-7.7%
Columbia: 9.8%
Princeton: 10.0-10.1%
MIT: 10.2%
Brown: 10.5-11%</p>

<p>HYCS anyone? :p</p>

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<p>I like the sound of that confidentialcoll</p>

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<p>wait, they already mailed them out? So those living in nyc, or near, can get theirs tomorrow before 5:00 p.m.!?! aaaahhhh</p>

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<p>yeah, i’m on long island, so it looks like I’ll be getting the paper letter before the online notification.</p>

<p>“big envelope, big envelope, big envelope”</p>

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<p>Lol! good luck kmatimber2!</p>

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<p>good luck everyone.</p>

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Since when is 2009 to 2013 five years, or 14.4% half of 23.6%?</p>

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<p>^it’s 26.7 which is about 27 and 14.4 or about let’s say 14, which is 27/14 which is about half i guess.</p>

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<p>ow God kids, are you that bad at math. 5 years before class of 2013 is class of 2008, I don’t have data for this year, but I’m nearly certain it was over 26.7% (class of '09), it was something like ~30% in 2004. So it has probably more than halved in 5 years. But saying half is conservative. The overall acceptance rate for class of 2009 was slightly lower than that of class of 2008 overall. So it is probably that the seas acceptance rate was also slightly higher for class of '08 than for '09.</p>

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Nonsense. You have to add U Penn.</p>

<p>HYCUPS</p>

<p>;)</p>

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Unless the SAT distributions, class rankings, etc. have increased over time, the freshman class hasn’t gotten more qualified…just a bit luckier.</p>

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<p>An overall admit rate of U Penn is 17.11% for the class of 2013.</p>

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<p>I think IB was just trying to spell HYCUPS (hiccups).</p>

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Exactly. What Dartmouth students get after drinking a bit too much (known as “getting D HYCUPS” :eek:).</p>

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<p>^whoa, how’d you get that face?!</p>