Admissions are DOWN people...

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<p>I am an 08 here at Dartmouth and in The D (our school newspaper), we had a news article about the number of apps this year...it went up 1,000 from last year! the school didn't see this coming at ALL, so they claim the admissions rae will drop to 14/15% i think it said. It also said that the number of ED's this year was the lowest in a while, which led to higher ED rates. you guys should have applied early! =P</p>

<p>good luck guys</p>

<p>EDIT: dam, didn't see the other thread. i glanced over the page and missed it. sorry for the repost!</p>

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<p>Zut! im not DOWN with that....sorry, couldnt help myself. but that sux.</p>

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<p>Hmmmm... I kinda do wish I applied early.</p>

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<p>darn, I really like DArtmouth .... :( :(</p>

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<p>Its weird, I have this theory that applying ED to schools in transition (like brown and D) is a huge advantage. The reason is exactly what you are talking about, schools insist on letting in 35-40% of classes early, yet are "shocked" every year as applications increase for the regular pool.</p>

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<p>sempitern, you are not the only 1@!!@!@#!@ we all love dartmouth and good schools such as the ivies.</p>

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<p>Well, I can't complain about not applying ED. I just feel as if I need to keep my options open because you never know. I have made that decision, and I'll take it. Though applying earlier would have been better statistically, applying regular was just the better decision for me to do because I need to have a lot of options.</p>

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<p>w.e we will wait till the official word comes out.. has anyone on this board actually read that and can post a link?</p>

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<p>From the Dartmouth Online, Wednesday, January 26,2005</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005012601010&sheadline=&sauthor=&stext=2009%20Ed%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005012601010&sheadline=&sauthor=&stext=2009%20Ed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Freshman application numbers hit record highs this year, more than making up for a slight dip in Early Decision applications, according to preliminary numbers released by Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg on Tuesday.</p>

<p>The Office of Admissions received over 12,500 applications, far exceeding the previous high of 11,855 applicants for the Class of 2007.</p>

<p>The quality of prospective students also improved this year, with average SAT scores reaching a College-high of 1395, according to Furstenberg, who called the applicant pool "impressive" and said it put Dartmouth among the top five or six schools in the country this year.</p>

<p>"I thought [the number of applications we received] was going to go up -- but not this much," Furstenberg said. "The size of the increase is a bit of a surprise. Twelve thousand applications was a watershed for us."</p>

<p>With a target class size of 1,070 students, the increase in applications should force the overall acceptance rate down to roughly 15 percent, Furstenberg said. </p>

<p>Although the increased applications will undoubtedly benefit the College, the size and talent of the applicant pool will make life difficult for high-school seniors awaiting their decisions. </p>

<p>While this year's Early Decision application numbers dropped, the number of acceptances increased. With just under 400 of the 1,070 spaces in the Class of 2009 already taken, competition will be stiff for the remaining spots. </p>

<p>Furstenberg predicted that regular decision applicants will face just a 12 percent acceptance rate.</p>

<p>Application numbers rose in virtually every statistical category this year. Applications from students of color were up significantly from recent years, and African-American and multiracial applications were at 4-year highs. Students of color also made up a larger percentage of the applicant pool than in the last three classes, comprising almost a quarter of prospective students.</p>

<p>The percentage of applicants from private schools, however, decreased significantly. Most of the drop in private school applicants was made up by an increase in public school applicants. The shift is likely due to larger graduating classes at public schools this year, which contributed to the overall rise in applications, Furstenberg said.</p>

<p>International student application numbers soared this year, hitting an all-time high of 1,881 applications, as did applications from Asian-American and Latino students. Furstenberg called these numbers a "great result" of the office's attempts to attract more Latino applicants.</p>

<p>"We will have to be careful in regular decision not to admit too many students," Furstenberg said.</p>

<p>Dartmouth plans to accept around 1,700 students, while around 1,000 will be waitlisted. Between 20 and 30 students are typically accepted from the waiting list.</p>

<p>Furstenberg attributed the rise in interest for Dartmouth this year to the Admissions Office's online efforts to reach out to high-school seniors.</p>

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<p>...and Brown is up 10%, Georgetown is up 6%...</p>

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<p>Duke up 7%...how are they all up so much??</p>

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<p>More high school seniors.</p>

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<p>Xanatos, you are right. Each year, there are more competitive high school seniors trying to apply for limited space in these highly selective universities. Imagine what it is going to be like next year, or the year after next. It is going to be worse than now, so I am so glad that I am applying this year.</p>

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<p>I think the number of high school seniors peaks in '09 or '10. For the next decade or two anyway.</p>

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<p>Why don't they just build more colleges? Good grief!</p>

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<p>They do...there are currently around 3,000 colleges in America and about 95% of them either have an open admissions policy or compete for students more than the other way around. It's those 150 or so schools that have distinguished themselves and are "hot commodities" so to speak that have ridiculous levels of competition to get in and cause stress in so many. Nevertheless, a solution would not be to make more "good" schools, because then that moniker would no longer have any real meaning. If there were 500 schools in the Ivy League, for instance, it would just be a name and no one would care about it. The whole idea that these are a select few schools with very limited slots in their classes that attracts so many people to them. Same with the other schools in the Top 25, etc.</p>

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<p>And there would be no Ivy League Football champion.</p>

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<p>If there are more high school seniors applying to like every top school, then wouldn't it make sense for all of the top colleges to accept more students proportional to the increase?</p>

<p>Ugh, this is so discouraging. . .</p>

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<p>Dartmouth has made it pretty clear that at least for a while it did not want to grow at the undergraduate level.</p>

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<p>I wish they'd decrease it a little bit, actually.</p>