Acceptance rates from past years

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<p>I was looking at the admission rates for some ivy leagues and have noticed just how much they are going down. I was just curious as to what the acceptance rates were from past years like 10, 25 years ago.</p>

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<p>Same number of spots in the fr class / many more applicants due to marketing, the CA and application inflation = lower admission rates.</p>

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<p>At Penn the acceptance rate was about 50% in the early 90s.
At Georgetown the acceptance rate was about 50% in the 80s…</p>

<p>These were about normal acceptance rates for schools like this at the time</p>

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<p>Do you have any official numbers to back that up? Not skeptical, but I’m really curious as to what the admissions statistics looked like 10, 20 years ago, as well as demographic breakdowns</p>

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<p>Yale - go to Section D, number 7.</p>

<p>Notice Yale’s Early Decision acceptance rates from 2000 - 37.6% of ED applicants accepted in ED round and another 6.4% deferred and then accepted in RD round. So, a 45% acceptance rate for ED at Yale in 2000:</p>

<p>[1976-2000</a>, Yale Book of Numbers | Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/1976-2000-yale-book-numbers#sectiond]1976-2000”>http://oir.yale.edu/1976-2000-yale-book-numbers#sectiond)</p>

<p>Also, an article from Penn stating that in 1980 the acceptance rate was over 40% and then fell to 36% by 1985:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/imagepenn/undergrad1.html[/url]”>http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/imagepenn/undergrad1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>When I see these numbers, I think legacy is sort of ridiculous. So the parent got in when the acceptance rate was 50% and you’re going to give the kid an advantage over others when the acceptance rate is 10% or lower?!</p>

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<p>@ entonmom</p>

<p>Also – when considering applications vs 25 years ago, we have to consider that there is a much larger application pool (population has more than doubled, and the fact that many schools are need blind means a larger segment of the population can reasonably apply.)</p>

<p>@ born2dance </p>

<p>I believe that there are several factors that go into legacy consideration – 1. Yield (legacies are more likely to attend and 2. One suspects that multi-generation families tend to contribute more. In other words, it’s complicated.</p>