<p>Has anyone done the math yet?</p>
<p>Sadly, the statistics haven’t been released yet. It should be a drop from last year.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen any statistics, but in President Chosoh 2014 welcome he did say there
had been a 9% increase in applications.
“Over the holidays, we celebrated a successful conclusion to 2013. Our applicant pool for the class of 2018 exceeded 6,000 (an all-time high and 9% increase from last year).” </p>
<p><a href=“Claremont McKenna Acceptance Reaction - YouTube”>Claremont McKenna Acceptance Reaction - YouTube; </p>
<p>A different source confirmed an admission rate of about 10 percent. </p>
<p>@xiggi</p>
<p>Lol that figure was just a generalization for last year’s acceptance rate. Sorry.</p>
<p>Yes, but if you take President Chodosh’s statement and assume the desired class size and yield are similar to last year, you do get an acceptance rate between 10 and 11 percent.</p>
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<p>Why the sorry and the LOL? Do you happen to have information that suggests that the reports are erroneous? </p>
<p>@xiggi</p>
<p>Because I am the boy in that video</p>
<p>Also, can somebody provide a link to President Chodosh’s statement?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/president/docs/2014/welcome-back-spring-semester.php”>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/president/docs/2014/welcome-back-spring-semester.php</a>
and congratulations - my d and I really enjoy your video - you and your mom should be very proud of
your accomplishments - also a credit to admissions in making a great decision.</p>
<p>@cmcdad</p>
<p>Thank you! 
I’m looking forward to joining your D among many other talented students this fall.</p>
<p>@carotid, I just emailed your video link to my daughter. So, so happy for you!</p>
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<p>Haha - now I get the LOL! Congratulations on your acceptance. I know a couple of people who had just the same reaction. And, perhaps, because they knew four fabulous years were in the pipeline! </p>
<p>Washington Post article reports
Claremont McKenna College: 613 offers out of 6,043 apps, 10 percent.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/college-admission-rates-for-class-of-2018-an-imperfect-but-closely-watched-metric/2014/04/03/820ff578-b6af-11e3-8cc3-d4bf596577eb_story.html”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/college-admission-rates-for-class-of-2018-an-imperfect-but-closely-watched-metric/2014/04/03/820ff578-b6af-11e3-8cc3-d4bf596577eb_story.html</a></p>
<p>9.8 percent. First single digit acceptance rate in CMC history!</p>
<p>I think it’s 10.1, but still very low.
Probably the lowest of any small liberal arts school and lower than Cornell, Dartmouth, about the same as U of P and just little higher than Brown.</p>
<p>Whoops, I guess I read the wrong figure. But you’re right–still very low.</p>
<p>Just a quick question. Doesn’t CMC receive much fewer applications than some of the schools you are comparing it to? As an admit and most likely prospective class of 2018 student, I of course want to take pride in the low acceptance rates that the Claremonts have so I’m not trying to bash on CMC by any means. While CMC does accept a very select few of all applicants, I’m pretty sure it receives much less than the ivies listed above and the UC’s. Doesn’t this make the 10% acceptance rate somewhat misleading?</p>
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<p>There is nothing misleading about the admit rate since it is a direct ratio of admissions versus applications. It is also (somewhat) proportional to the numbers of spots available. A decade ago, CMC was admitting around 30 percent of its applicants, and the number has plummeted because of the growing number of applications in a pattern similar to schools such as Chicago or Stanford. </p>
<p>This said, one could raise the argument that the same 2,000 strong applicants that were in the pool a few years ago are still the same 2,000 that the school reviews with closer attention. </p>
<p>However, in the end, just as Stanford has become the school with the lowest admit rate in his group, Claremont McKenna appears to be the LAC with the lowest admit rate in April. </p>
<p>@xiggi Tbh though, CMC does more in advertising than some of the other LACs. Pomona didn’t send me any ads when I put them on my list in common app and visited their campus, while CMC sent me brochures, as well as lots of emails. </p>
<p>Well I don’t think advertising indicates whether one school is stronger or weaker than any other. In fact, I know for a fact that University of Chicago, most of the UC’s, and Columbia advertises through email and the mail. These are just a few that I have received countless advertisements from and I’m sure other top tier schools do it too. It might also depend on where you live and the targeted audience maybe? </p>
<p>Furthermore, Pomona does not receive a significantly larger amount of applicants in comparison to CMC. I was just thinking that it might not be entirely accurate to compare CMC, Pomona, or any other small yet strong LAC, to a school like Dartmouth or Cornell. While these ivy league schools have higher acceptance rates, their applicant pool is several times larger and the 25/50/75 SAT and GPA range of their class is usually higher than that of the initially mentioned small LAC’s. </p>