<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 Princeton
Total Number Applications Received 13,695
Total Number Applications Accepted 1,733 (including 79 from waitlist)
Overall Acceptance Rate 12.65%
Regular Decision Applications Received 11,877
Regular Decision Applicants Accepted 1,152
Regular Decision Acceptance Rate 9.69%
Early Decision/ Action Applications Received 1,818
Early Decision/ Action Applications Accepted 581
Early Decision/ Action Acceptance Rate 31.95%
Percent of Class Filled by Early Applicants 50%</p>
<p>2007 Princeton
Total Number Applications Received 15,726
Total Number Applications Accepted 1,601 (27 including from waitlist)
Overall Acceptance Rate 10%
Regular Decision Applications Received 13,313
Regular Decision Applicants Accepted 1.010
Regular Decision Acceptance Rate 7.58%
Early Decision/ Action Applications Received 2,413
Early Decision/ Action Applications Accepted 591
Early Decision/ Action Acceptance Rate 24.5%
Percent of Class Filled by Early Applicants about 50% </p>
<p>Edited by Trinity to reflect correct numbers provided by Princeton's Registrar.</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>Princeton actually wound up admitting 1,732 for the Class of 2008, including 101 admitted from the waiting list. The numbers you posted were very early numbers.</p>
<p>Similarly, your 2007 numbers are incorrect. Counting those taken from the waitlist, Princeton admitted 1,601 for the Class of 2007.</p>
<p>"For example, at Yale last year, the EA deferreds were admitted at close to the same rate as 'regular' EA applicants, and at a far higher rate than 'regular' RD applicants."</p>
<p>When we visited Yale, while it was still ED, the adcom told us that each ED application was tagged as such and that the tags stayed on during the RD round, which meant they would look more kindly on them, since they would know that student really wanted to attend. Ha, in those days I hadn't heard the word "yield." I thought they were being nice!</p>
<p>I note that the Daily Princetonian has editorialized again today in favor of dumping ED and moving to SCEA with HYS, in order to goose the size of the early pool and increase the diversity of applicants.</p>
<p>dumping ed? moving to whattawhat? </p>
<p>sorry - im not good with acronyms. can someone explain?</p>
<p>SCEA: Single choice early action</p>
<p>This year, for the class of 2010, 599 were accepted EA. (it's on the site)</p>
<p>See Princetonian article: <a href="http://dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/01/11/news/14215.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/01/11/news/14215.shtml</a>
with a few useful comments and also on Harvard.</p>
<p>RD figures: <a href="http://dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/04/05/news/15079.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/04/05/news/15079.shtml</a></p>
<p>Do ya'll think that Princeton will stick with the ED option for the class of 2011? I was hoping to apply ED.</p>
<p>It appears that they will. It is almost too late to change now - or atleast after the end of May. Princeton has commissioned a consulting firms report on what changes it can make to recruit and matriculate stronger students in greater numbers. The consulting firm may address this issue.</p>
<p>Princeton doesn't think they are getting strong enough applicants? Are you kidding me?</p>
<p>The article says they are looking for more economic diversity, not stronger students.</p>
<p>See also: "The Early Admissions Game", and "The Chosen" - the latter exerpted in the PAW, about Hargadon and the search for "the Princeton Type" .... a strategy which Rapelye has seemingly rejected in favor of going head-to-head with HYS etc for the top students.</p>
<p>SEE ALSO:</p>
<p>Yield declines to five-year low</p>
<p>By Chanakya Sethi
Princetonian Staff Writer</p>
<pre><code>The University's admissions yield dropped five percentage points from last year, declining to a five-year low, but Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said the drop is not a problem.
The yield the percentage of accepted students who chose to matriculate at Princeton dropped from 73 percent in 2003 to 68 percent this year.
Rapelye said the decline is merely a consequence of a renewed focus in Princeton admissions: competing more directly with Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT for the best applicants.
"We're going for better students. We have more competition. We ought to be rejoicing that we're pushing that limit now," Rapelye said...
Also, the average SAT score for the class rose to 730 in both the math and verbal sections, an improvement of 20 and 10 points, respectively, over last year's figures.
"We knew we were taking a group of students who had, on paper, a slightly better profile [than in previous years] and we also knew by doing that, they would have more choices. That happens at any school," Rapelye said. "We knew that our yield would be slightly lower because of that, and it was."
As the quality of a college's accepted-students pool increases, so does the number of "cross-admits," or students admitted to other schools.
An individual college's yield may drop under such circumstances as it competes with other schools for the best students...."
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<p>This article is from 2004.</p>
<p>It dates from the time, on Rapelye's maiden voyage through the admissions waters, when the admit rate plummeted from 74% to its current 68% level. She explained, fortrightly, that this was a result of going after the top students Princeton previously tended to pass on. </p>
<p>I give her full credit for biting the bullet. Now Princeton is going after not only the economically disadvantaged, and the "green-haired people", but the top scholars as well.</p>
<p>Haha i had a 1600, and 4.87 (#1)</p>
<p>rejected</p>
<p>Any indication on this year's yield?</p>