<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 Brown
Total Number Applications Received 15,268
Total Number Applications Accepted 2,412
Overall Acceptance Rate 15.80%
Regular Decision Applications Received 13,387
Regular Decision Applicants Accepted 1,874
Regular Decision Acceptance Rate 14.00%
Early Decision/ Action Applications Received 1,907
Early Decision/ Action Applications Accepted 540
Early Decision/ Action Acceptance Rate 28.30%
Percent of Class Filled by Early Applicants 37.80%</p>
<p>2007 Brown
Total Number Applications Received 15,153
Total Number Applications Accepted 2,258
Overall Acceptance Rate 14.90%
Regular Decision Acceptance Rate 11.80%
Early Decision/ Action Applications Received 1,919
Early Decision/ Action Applications Accepted 496
Early Decision/ Action Acceptance Rate 22%
Percent of Class Filled by Early Applicants unavailable</p>
<p>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>because it jumped 10% in total apps.</p>
<p>16,908 apps, 2,463 admits</p>
<p>This indicates a projected yield of 59%.</p>
<p>If it falls short of that, empty slots will be filled from the waitlist.</p>
<p>And who's to say all those legacies are not qualified? I'm a legacy at Dartmouth and I would be extremely insulted if someone told me I would only get in because I'm a legacy. I worked damn hard! (Not that it matters, since I didn't apply...)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ivywise.com/Parents_stats.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.ivywise.com/Parents_stats.htm</a> look at these statistics, I think legacies have more than a slightly igher acceptance rate. Brown ED for legacies is 54% according to this. Also read this:
<a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2004/beat-reporting/works/beat3.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2004/beat-reporting/works/beat3.html</a></p>
<p>Check out today's Brown Daliy Herald. Admit rate was down and applications were way up for the Classof '09. Congratulations to all who are going to Brown next year. You'll love it!</p>
<p>The RD yield is projected at 46.3%, based on the total number of acceptance letters sent so far, (2,463), and the projected class size of 1,440.</p>
<p>If the projected yield rate of nearly 59% - and the projected RD yield - are too optimistic, then slots will be filled from the waitlist. Last year, they matriculated 1,429 of 2,504 admits for an overall yield rate of 56.8%.</p>
<p>If the eventual yield is closer to last year's figure, it may mean as many as 40 will be taken from the waitlist.</p>
<p>SEE:</p>
<p>Here are the projected overall yield rates (first number) and RD yield rates (second number, where possible to calculate them) for a few selected schools, based on the initial projections. These yield rates, rounded to the nearest whole number, may decline with "summer melt" and use of waitlists:</p>
<p>Harvard: 79% / 71%</p>
<p>Yale: 69% / 57%</p>
<p>Stanford: 68% / 56%</p>
<p>Princeton: 68% / 52%</p>
<p>Penn: 62% / 48%</p>
<p>Columbia: 61% / 47% ("Columbia College" only)</p>
<p>Brown: 58% / 46%</p>
<p>Notre Dame: 56%</p>
<p>UVa: 54%</p>
<p>Georgetown: 52%</p>
<p>Dartmouth: 51% / 43%</p>
<p>Cornell: 49% / 42%</p>
<p>Swarthmore: 43% / 30%</p>
<p>Duke: 42%</p>
<p>JHU: 28%</p>
<p>I didn't include MIT for 2 reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>They have yet to submit their CDS form for for the 2004-5 school year;</p></li>
<li><p>They do not report all the information necessary to calculate exact RD yield - ie, the number of EA apps and admits.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>See: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2004/cds2004.html#c%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2004/cds2004.html#c</a></p>
<p>The overall yield for the Class of 2007, as revealed by the 2003-4 CDS form cited above, was 58.7%.</p>
<p>The EA yield - and, in consequence, the overall yield - should be up for the Class of 2008, because MIT no longer shared an EA pool with Harvard - which moved to SCEA for that class along with Yale and Stanford. Similarly, the University of Chicago and Georgetown - other "EA schools" - saw their EA yield rise.</p>
<p>This year, ED round:</p>
<p>2,538 applicants</p>
<p>583 accepted (23%)</p>
<p>20 people accepted for PLME</p>
<p>what about transfers? any statistics?</p>
<p>The graduating class of 2007 had 61 entrants for PLME; are you sure 20 acceptances to PLME this year is the right number?</p>
<p>Yes. If you cared to notice what I said in my post, 20 were accepted to PLME ED.</p>
<p>At least twlo Brown sites say there were 2,379 early apps. Where do you get the 2,538 number? Is there a link?</p>
<p>I got the "official" numbers from the alum who interviewed me. She got it directly from Brown.</p>
<p>I believe the correct number is 2,379.</p>
<p>There were 15,871 RD apps. See THIS story, acknowleging the original reporting error which I called to their attention.</p>
<p>The new number for total apps - as of February 27, 2006 - is 18,298. The most striking demographic: the gender imbalance is widening, with the percentage of applicants who are male declining from 42% last year to 39% this year.</p>
<p><a href="http://ceourl.com/KZQG%5B/url%5D">http://ceourl.com/KZQG</a></p>
<p>Most of those I know wanting to go to Brown are female.</p>
<p>So if you're a strong male applicant, does that bode better or worse for you?</p>