<p>Does anyone know what it was this year? I heard that it was Oberlin's most selective year ever</p>
<p>33 percent.</p>
<p>Got a source for that?</p>
<p>Official schedule for All Roads: <a href=“http://www.oberlin.edu/accept/downloads/Daily_schedule.pdf[/url]”>http://www.oberlin.edu/accept/downloads/Daily_schedule.pdf</a></p>
<p>that was their exact acceptance rate last year so that wouldn’t be a new low. are you sure that’s not last year’s all roads?</p>
<p>Intuitively, 33% seems very selective for an LAC that has 2800 students. Most LACs come in between 1,100 and 1,500 students. Even if you eliminate the Con students, Oberlin is still more than 50% bigger than the average LAC. I wonder what the accept rate would be if Oberlin had only, say, 1,400 students? Would it be a lot lower? I got a “C” in Calc in college, so I’m not exactly a math geek. Can one of you math whizzes post a formula or theorem to show if I’m right or wrong?</p>
<p>years ago that was the acceptance rate for Harvard.
One thing about Oberlin is that it is self-selecting to a larger degree than many schools, so its not a school that lots of apply apply to just on the off-chance they get in.
But in any case, all this selectivity stuff is overblown as any kind of reflection of the quality of the educational experience.</p>
<p>Admissions Counselor Leslie Braat also posted the 33% acceptance rate on her blog today:</p>
<p>[Oberlin</a> Blogs | Blog Entry: “The tide has turned”](<a href=“http://blogs.oberlin.edu/applying/selection_process/the_tide_has_tu.shtml]Oberlin”>http://blogs.oberlin.edu/applying/selection_process/the_tide_has_tu.shtml)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the acceptance rate last year was 34%, but don’t quote me on that. Not a huge difference, anyway.</p>
<p>We’ve been at “about a third” for several years–this year we got down even closer to exactly 33%. Part of the “most selective year ever” determination is also that all of the average stats (GPA, test scores, etc) for this year’s admitted class are higher than they’ve ever been.</p>