<p>too early. response cards aren't even due until monday.</p>
<p>Just wondering as Duke has already gone to the WL. Princeton says they won't know till mid june but I was curious, wondering if we'll have to be making decisions all over again. Not likely.</p>
<p>Found this on the website for the Daily Princetonian...</p>
<p>ADMISSION
University accepts 10.2 percent for Class of 2010</p>
<p>By Ross Liemer
Princetonian Senior Writer</p>
<pre><code>The University offered admission to 1,792 students out of a record 17,563 applicants to the Class of 2010. The acceptance rate was 10.2 percent, down from 10.9 percent last year.
"We all thought the applicant pool was powerful and deep," Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview.
Rapelye sent thick envelopes to 1,193 students from a regular decision pool of 15,327 applicants, which included students deferred in the early decision process. The regular decision acceptance rate fell from 8.4 percent last year to 7.8 percent this year.
The University had already selected 599 students from an early decision pool of 2,236 applicants, for an early decision acceptance rate of 26.8 percent, down 2.3 percent from last year's figure.
"The expected size of the class this year will be 1,220," Rapelye said, which means that about half of the students admitted regular decision are expected to choose Princeton. The total expected yield, including those admitted under the binding early decision process, is 68 percent.
Many of Princeton's peer universities reached record low acceptance rates this year, including Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania.
Yale set an Ivy League record low with an acceptance rate of 8.6 percent, according to The Yale Daily News. At Harvard, 9.3 percent of applicants were admitted, slightly above their record low of 9.2 percent set last year, The Harvard Crimson reported.
While Princeton saw a record number of applicants this year, its double-digit acceptance rate was higher than those of most of its peers and its own record-low rate of 9.9 percent for the Class of 2007.
Rapelye said the waitlist includes several hundred students, who will decide by May whether to remain on the list or opt out. No students were admitted from the waitlist to the Class of 2009, while 99 students were admitted from the waitlist to the Class of 2008.
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<pre><code>All 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as 53 countries around the world, are represented in the pool of admitted students. The number of admitted international students increased slightly to 9.7 percent this year, and includes residents of Cyprus, Finland and Zimbabwe, according to a University press release.
Of admitted students, 9.9 percent are children of alumni, a figure unchanged from last year, and 44 percent are minorities, a rise of two percent. Rapelye defined minorities as "students of color, including those who voluntarily checked 'biracial' or 'multiracial.' "
This year, 61 percent of admitted students attend public school, 30 percent attend private school and nine percent attend religious school. Five of the students accepted were home-schooled.
Fifty-two percent of admitted students are men, and 48 percent are women. Rapelye said that about 600 more men than women applied to Princeton this year, in contrast to the rise in the proportion of women applicants observed by other college admission offices.
"We're bucking the trend in higher education," Rapelye said, before noting that, "Our admit rates for men and women were almost identical this year."
The data on admitted students from disadvantaged backgrounds and the number of students receiving offers of financial aid were not immediately available, Rapelye said.
"As for students from families with incomes below the national mean, we have considerably more than we had four years ago," Rapelye said.
Rapelye said data on mean or median SAT scores of admitted students were also unavailable, but expressed confidence in the academic merit of those admitted.
"Within the applicant pool this year ... more than 7,000 had an A to A minus average high school grade, combined with SAT scores of 700 or higher on each of the three sections," she said.
Alumni interviewed a record number of applicants this year, reaching 91 percent of the 17,563 prospective students.
"There is no clearinghouse where this information is kept but this must be some kind of record in higher education," Rapelye said.
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<p>This link has been posted before. Note that the yield is still projected at 68% - down from the 74% level of the Hargadon era.</p>
<p>I love this line: </p>
<p>-"Within the applicant pool this year ... more than 7,000 had an A to A minus average high school grade, combined with SAT scores of 700 or higher on each of the three sections," she said.-</p>
<p>So take that! Our kid was one of those 7000 and also was another one (of many) rejected with stats above Princeton's average. (But first kid is going there.)</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone could provide me (or point me to) statistics which show the number of undergrad applicants (and admissions) to Princeton, by home state...
I saw that Princeton had 42 states represented in their ED admits... what happened with the other 8 states-- were there no qualified applicants-- or just no applicants at all? I'd like to see stats for all 50 states.</p>
<p>I'd be interested in that too (^)</p>
<p>wow 5 homeschoolers for last year's class???</p>
<p>can you find out how many homeschoolers applied?</p>
<p>i'm suddenly feeling advantaged! despite being an asian male...</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://admitspit.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/admission-statistics-for-top-colleges-2006%5B/url%5D">http://admitspit.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/admission-statistics-for-top-colleges-2006</a>, Princeton had a 49% ED admit rate for the high school Class of 2005. Can this really be correct, or is it likely a typo? As evidenced by this thread, Princeton has had rates up in the 30%s, which is already pretty high, but accepting nearly every other applicant sounds plain ridiculous.</p>
<p>ED acceptance rate for the high school class of '05 at Pton was 29%. See <a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/01/05/news/11741.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/01/05/news/11741.shtml</a></p>
<p>I guess they changed the article now, because they probably meant before that 49% of the people admitted early *compose *the class. Not that that many were accepted early.</p>
<p>Total applied: 18891
Total accepted (estimated): 1747
Total admit rate (estimated): 9.25%</p>
<p>ED applied: 2286
ED accepted: 597 (26.1%)
ED rejected: 100 (4.37)
ED deferred: 1589 (69.5%)</p>
<p>RD applied: 16605
ED deferred: 1589
Total RD pool: 18194
RD accepted (estimated): 1150
RD admit rate (estimated): 6.32%</p>
<p>Without the official number, the RD admit rate is an estimate based on past yield and the 2011 ED admit #.</p>
<p>those numbers are not looking so good for RD :/</p>