<p>What was the acceptance rate for Tufts this year?</p>
<p>26% i think</p>
<p>I read an article about this on the Tufts Daily newspaper. It said that the overall acceptance rate was 27% (As 3Point7Student said) and 9.5% for international students. It has stayed around the same as last year. However, there was a 5% drop in the total number of applications.</p>
<p>For RD (not including ED) it was around 23%.</p>
<p>for engineering i think its like 9-10% actually</p>
<p>^ ??? The engineering acceptance rate was around 9-10 or the drop in apps were around 9-10??? </p>
<p>Usually the engineering school is a teeny bit easier to get into than CAS.</p>
<p>the accept rate. i think i remember seeing 2100 applicants this year, and only 200 spots…</p>
<p>No way, lol. The accept rate for past years has been above the rate for CAS.</p>
<p>There’s an error in #s somewhere.</p>
<p>Accept rate does not equal spots/total applicants, because not everyone who is accepted matriculates.</p>
<p>In fact I think RD matriculation is only around 20%</p>
<p>yeah yeah lol i just figured that out. for 2012, 2019 people applied and theres about 200 in engineering per class</p>
<p>200 prefrosh engineers. The transfer to A&S rate is extremely high.</p>
<p>Matriculation is much higher than 20%, lol… because after doing all the caluclations that would have meant a 50% acceptance rate for engineering. That’s wrong.</p>
<p>It’s probably more around 35-40%.</p>
<p>~800 RD matriculants/ 3,437 RD acceptances = 23%</p>
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<p>^ Wow, okay - thanks :)</p>
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I’m pretty sure I heard that the net attrition rate for the engineering school is close to zero, meaning that about as many students move into engineering as leave. I don’t think that many engineers end up switching out, either.</p>
<p>The drop out rate for the “real” engineering programs is certainly very high. I don’t know how many people switch into the pseudo engineering programs.</p>
<p>Just look at your physics 12 class. How many people are left in it?</p>
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<p>Nope! Untrue. Obviously, you have anecdotal experience that seems to point in the other direction, but irrespective of that, the Tufts engineering attrition rate is one of the lowest in the country.</p>
<p>^^ If the net attrition rate is roughly zero, and enrollment in Human Factors, Engineering Psychology, Engineering Physics, Engineering Science, and plain old BSE all increase drastically starting from 2nd semester freshmen year, then enrollment in the “real” engineering programs must decrease drastically from pre-frosh and first semester freshman year.</p>
<p>1+1=2</p>
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<p>Edit: and yes I realize that engineers don’t officially declare majors until 2nd semester freshman year. I had simply stated that a large amount of “prefrosh engineers” will be weeded out of the real engineering programs by their sophomore year.</p>
<p>Perhaps “real” is not a good adjective to use here. By real I meant ABET accredited programs.</p>
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<p>All prefrosh accepted into the school of engineering, minus prospective BME-ers, is assigned an adviser in one of the ABET accredited programs chosen during orientation. Talk to any of these professors and they will tell you that their advise pool of upperclassmen are usually smaller.</p>
<p>I was unaware that enrollment in those five increase drastically and can’t find where you’re getting that info. The majority of the engineers (freshmen and upperclassmen) I know are in the ABET accredited programs you mentioned, which makes me think that that’s true of most engineers, but obviously I can’t say for sure.<br>
However, if, as you also state, all freshmen are assigned to an adviser in one of the ABET accredited programs, including the ones who may be planning on going into the other fields, then obviously there will be a decrease in the pool for each adviser as some of their advises pursue the other programs.</p>