<p>this can’t be true</p>
<p>last year princeton had 68% yield, so pretend that this year with the economy they are expecting 65% yield:</p>
<p>class size: 1300</p>
<p>so they would have to admit 2,000</p>
<p>and with 21,869 applicants this year, their admit rate would be 9%</p>
<p>princeton would have to GROSSLY underestimate it’s yield rate for the acceptance rate to go up to 12%</p>
<p>Check the Princeton website for admission statistics and you will see that last year’s yield was only 59%, in fact, only 58.5%</p>
<p>Using those same statistics, (class size=1300 yield=58.5 applicant pool=21869) Princeton’s admit rate would still only be 10.16%. They would still need a bigger class size.</p>
<p>To get an acceptance rate of 11.9%, they would have to accept ~2600 applicants, which means they would be expecting a yield rate of about 50%. </p>
<p>I do know that a lot of schools are expecting lower yield rates this year due to the economy and the fact that students are applying to more schools. But I would question the admissions office’s logic if they really think the yield for (in my opinion) the best college in the country is only going to be 50%. </p>
<p>So, yes, something’s off.</p>
<p>Princeton is expanding their class size this year. Though I think it might be only 100 students or so…</p>
<p>Taking into account the increase in target class size, as well as (maybe) a slight decrease in yield rate at Pton (say, from 58.5% to 55%), we would get…</p>
<pre><code> (1300+100)/(0.55)/21869~=11.6%
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<p>I’d say that an increase in the admissions rate is not that unlikely to occur this year. A win-win situation for both the school and the prospective students.</p>
<p>wow now i regret not applying to more ivies :/</p>
<p>Toomuchpressure: that’s not true, the author of the article did not confirm this.</p>
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<p>I applaud you for making the numbers work, but when I used the number 1300, that was taking into account the increased class size already</p>
<p>If 11.9% is the real admit rate, well it’s shocking that they think their yield will be that low</p>
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<p>Yes. The New York Times piece is also more recent.</p>
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<p>yes but the NYT article did not contradict the penn one…</p>
<p>nyt just said that princeton would not publicly release their admit rate at the moment. that doesn’t necessarily mean that penn wouldn’t have access to it…</p>
<p>Actually, it does.</p>
<p>Guys, c’mon- have a bit of common sense. I think you have a bit too much faith in college journalists. For one, they’re overworked college students, so they don’t always (read: almost never) have the time to get their pieces up to NYT quality. This often translates to misquotes, relatively frequent errors, and even the occasional unsubstantiated fact. Plus, this girl would be quite the intrepid reporter if she had obtained these statistics in advance of the release of admission decisions. Obtaining a set of statistics like these is worthy of an entire article in and of itself, not some throwaway line that’s part of the lead of a piece about some gut course on wine tasting.</p>
<p>Precisely! Which is why it is ridiculous (and telling) for these ■■■■■■ to seek solace in her words, and cling to them.</p>
<p>^ ouch… hahah</p>