<p>Congrats on everyone else that got into Princeton...I hope to see people up there on the Preview Day!</p>
<p>But I have a question...does anyone know what the admit rate this year was, or has that not been released yet?</p>
<p>i doubt it is really just over 6% - which would be only about 1300.</p>
<p>Probably somewhere around 8% for an admitted class of about 1600</p>
<p>Look carefully at today's date and then wait until the official announcement takes place.</p>
<p>I imagine H, Y, and P will all be relying heavily on the waitlist this year.</p>
<p>For Princeton, I think we'll see ~60% yield for the current group of admitted students = .6 * (.06 * 20,118) = 724 students. To hit its target class size of 1240, an additional 516 people will be admitted from the wait list. That gives us an overall acceptance rate of ((.06 * 20,118) + 516) / 20,118 = 8.5%</p>
<p>This should put the Princeton acceptance rate at roughly the same level of Yale's (8.3% + whatever they take from waitlist). I imagine Harvard will be slightly lower at the high 7s. These are rough calculations, and the Prince may not have its numbers right (the University website had the number of applicants at 21,262). </p>
<p>In any event, I think that HPY will have ridiculously low acceptance rates, and that the wait lists for the pools will be very, very large. I'm not sure how I feel about an admissions environment where ~500 people in the admitted class find out decisions after initially being waitlisted. It seems like an another level of stress in an already stressful process.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Silly Puddy: Listen</a> to PtonGrad2000.</p>
<p>I agree. With 6% acceptance they'd need 100% yield to fill class. Unless the admissions office is bored and wants a lot more work a month from now when they need to add 3-400 more students</p>
<p>yeah, numbers don't make much sense, but this seems like a really really weak april fools joke.</p>
<p>They corrected the article. The initial estimate was just a (baseless and stupid) guess, since no numbers have been released yet. The new estimate, while perhaps more accurate, is also not at all official.</p>
<p>In sum: rather than a subtle joke at beating Harvard (7%) and Yale (8%) in rejections, it was just, as always, poor reporting by an embarrassingly bad college newspaper.</p>
<p>I presume that Pton's concerned about losing the ****ing contests with Harvard and Yale, hasn't post up the number of the accepted students, after two days.</p>
<p>My daughter got in and we're happy for her.
In the game of numbers, I wish Pton play it straight up, like the other two do.</p>
<p>The Admissions figures were posted on the website at 2am on April 2nd.</p>