<p>Admissions' Statistics</p>
<p>Since this subject interests most posters, I'd like to create a "quasi official" list of the historical admissions' numbers for the Ivy League schools. </p>
<p>If you have numbers for 2005 and prior years, please post the information for YOUR school here. Make sure to quote the source of your information. At a later date, I will reduce the information into one comprehensive post. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>2008 Yale
Total Number Applications Received 19,674
Total Number Applications Accepted 1,950
Overall Acceptance Rate 9.90%
Regular Decision Applications Received 15,600
Regular Decision Applicants Accepted 1,280
Regular Decision Acceptance Rate 8.20%
Early Decision/ Action Applications Received 4046
Early Decision/ Action Applications Accepted 670
Early Decision/ Action Acceptance Rate 16.60%
Percent of Class Filled by Early Applicants non-binding</p>
<p>2007 Yale
Total Number Applications Received 17,735
Total Number Applications Accepted 2,014
Overall Acceptance Rate 11.35%
Regular Decision Acceptance Rate 9.60%
Early Decision/ Action Applications Received 2612
Early Decision/ Action Applications Accepted 557
Early Decision/ Action Acceptance Rate 21.32%
Percent of Class Filled by Early Applicants 43%</p>
<p>Edit: 2007 figures derived from CDS report.
Please note that the numbers for regular decision are estimated. The accuracy of the numbers may vary depending on the final numbers of admissions of the pool of ED deferred.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the best source for this type of breakdown is:</p>
<p>Avery, Christopher, Fairbanks, Andrew, Zeckhauser, Richard. The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite</p>
<p>Here is a source of a summary report of the book: ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/research/wpaper.nsf/ rwp/RWP01-049/$File/rwp01<em>049</em>avery_rev1.pdf </p>
<p>Another discussion can be found at <a href="http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-4/early-decision.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-4/early-decision.html</a></p>
<p>From your post, I do however, have to assume that you will not agree with the conclusions of the reports.</p>
<p>PS There was a discussion about ED on the parent's forum: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=34685%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=34685</a>. While it does not address the breakdown of ED and RD pool, it is hard to overlook the advantages of applying ED. Just take a look at these two LAC schools: </p>
<p>Wellesley
Fresh(wo)men 591
Applicants 3912
Admitted 1476
Admit rate 41%
ED Apps 180
ED admit 123
ED Admit Rate ............... 68% </p>
<p>Smith
Fresh(wo)men 696
Apps 2993
Admits 1694
Rate 57%
ED Apps 192
ED Admit 156
ED Admit rate .................81%</p>
<p>Together with the RD pool, the deferreds should hear on or about April 1.</p>
<p>Wow, that's what scares me. 2,000 out of 18,000 applicants. Good luck to everyone else applying.</p>
<p>It's my dream to go to Yale, but now I realize it's a highly impractical dream.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's my dream to go to Yale, too, but I think I'm going to go to UPenn or Columbia instead (if I get in).</p>
<p>SCEA applied: 4084
SCEA admitted: 724
SCEA admit rate: 17.7%</p>
<p>RD applied: 18976
RD admitted: 1099
RD admit rate: 5.79%</p>
<p>Applications, Yale Class of 2011
Total Number of Applicants: 19323
Total Number of Admits: 1860
Rate of Admission: 9.6%
Total Number on Wait List: 859</p>
<p>What about the EA stats for 2011? I'm interested to see the % for RD only.</p>
<p>SCEA applied: 3594
SCEA admitted: 709 (19.7%)
SCEA rejected: 677 (18.8%)
SCEA deferred: 2208 (61.4%)</p>
<p>RD applied: 15729
SCEA deferred: 2208
RD total applicants: 17937
RD admitted: 1151 (6.42%)
RD rejected: 15927 (88.8%)
RD waitlisted: 859 (4.79%)</p>
<p>Yale holds its own in statistics most definitely. Good luck to everyone this fall!</p>
<p>I wonder how many of the RD admitted were SCEA deferred?</p>
<p>I vaguely remember reading somewhere that SCEA deferrees, once in the RD pool, have about the same chance (or a bit higher?) as the RD applicants (i.e. 5-6%)</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, is there a figure for predicted yield for the Yale class of 2011?</p>
<p>Are the elite schools planning on letting in more students in the future or are they going to wait until they have like a 1% admissions rate?</p>
<p>ultimate dream school = Yale.
possibilities - Columbia, UPenn</p>
<p>I am applying to all 3 this fall.</p>
<p>hahahaha excellent question turtlegurlie =) the more people who apply, the lower the percentage will be. The actual number of accepted applicants wont change much.</p>
<p>Actually, the number of applicants is going to start decreasing the coming years. So the admisisons rates we see now will probably be the lowest these institutions ever have... unless we see another baby boom/baby echo or something.</p>
<p>Not necessarily. The very top institutions are now so far ahead of everyone else in terms of the amount of resources per student, that their desirability is only increasing. </p>
<p>In other words there is an even larger gap every year in terms of the quality you now see at the very top (HYP/MIT/Caltech) and the quality you see everywhere else (the rest of the top 20). Yale and Princeton are now the leaders, with about $2,000,000 per student EACH in endowment, with Harvard close behind at about $1,500,000 per student. FYI, most of the "top 20" is in the $300,000 per student range, although a half dozen or so of the very top LACs are getting up close to the HYP league.</p>
<p>That means things like: free tuition, room and board for anyone who can't pay, fully funded trips to anywhere in the world every summer, one on one tutoring services, cushy $14 per hour campus jobs for those who want them, unlimited grants, smaller and smaller class sizes, unlimited research opportunities, funding available for anything anyone could possibly ever want to do or create an organization for while in college, simply unparalleled advising, fellowship services (Rhodes etc) and career services, summer job programs, paid salaries if you work for local nonprofits, palace like dormitories, early admission to top grad programs, and better dining hall food than anyone else (Yale even now has its own organic farm on campus, see <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200410/kummer%5B/url%5D">http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200410/kummer</a>.)</p>
<p>As long as endowment per student continues to skyrocket at the very top, admissions rates to HYP will just continue to decline. I know it's not popular for me to say this, but it's true.</p>
<p>The good news is that admissions is as unpredictable as ever, so don't be deterred by the low numbers. Apply to your top choice- don't settle for second best. Ignore the statistics and concentrate on putting together a kick-$$$ app.</p>