<p>What happened? And does it mean anything much?</p>
<p>This means Princeton is not that selective.
Harvard, Yale ,Stanford freshmen size is 500 bigger than Princeton, but still maintains ~7% admit rate. The effective admit rate of Princeton would be 30% </p>
<p>As a result, many Princeton graduates are rejected from top graduate programs like Yale law.
And in revealed preference ranking Princton ranked 6th place</p>
<p>“Harvard, Yale ,Stanford freshmen size is 500 bigger than Princeton, but still maintains ~7% admit rate. The effective admit rate of Princeton would be 30%”</p>
<p>Not sure how that adds up to 30% (if we accepted 850 more (59% yield), it’d be around ~3000/22000 = ~13%).</p>
<p>I guess with that logic, you could say the “effective” admit rate at Pomona College (one of the best colleges in the country) is around 200%. Dang, 200% admit rate - Pomona must suuuck. </p>
<p>Riiiight, don’t forget to take into account any other factors (like how Princeton requires 3 SAT Subject tests, which eliminates 90% of high school students from applying).</p>
<p>^Yeah, I’ve always wondered, why does Princeton require 3 when most (who require them) use only 2?</p>
<p>jomjom is a ■■■■■ on the princeton forum<br>
just look at some of his posts in other threads</p>
<p>And to say that princeton is not selective is blatantly false – for example, one of my friends at school was accepted to Yale and Stanford and wait listed at Harvard, yet he was rejected from Princeton. So if Princeton is not selective, then Yale and Stanford aren’t either because they accepted him when Princeton rejected him? I think not.</p>
<p>Peytoncline Have you heard about Reveaed Preference Ranking ?
Have you heard about Princeton’s strategic admission process ?
Here is the link
<a href=“http://www.nber.org/papers/w10803.pdf?new_window=1[/url]”>http://www.nber.org/papers/w10803.pdf?new_window=1</a>
look page 6-7</p>
<p>Princeton admissions committee rejects top and best applicants because they know that the best one will not choose Princeton … Your friends case is the best example of Princeton’s
strategic admission process… :)</p>
<p>Yes Princeton administration knows that Princeton is well behind several top schools…
see page 26</p>
<p>Princeton’s Strategic admission process
““is potentially costly to the actual quality of an admissions class, with no clear benefit
beyond a higher reported matriculation rate.””</p>
<p>jom jom, you are ■■■■■■■■</p>
<p>No school that ends early decision practices strategic admissions. Have fun at w/e non-Princeton institution that you’re going to. Let me reiterate that one more time… YOU DON"T GO TO PRINCETON. Now have fun ■■■■■■■■ some more.</p>
<p>Here’s data that refuteso jomjom’s claim that Princeton # 6 in terms of cross admits.</p>
<p>Note how Princeton how Princeton bested Stanford for cross admits last year.</p>
<p>[Faculty</a> Senate minutes - June 12, 2008 meeting](<a href=“http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/minutes-061808.html?view=print]Faculty”>http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/minutes-061808.html?view=print)</p>
<p>I just don’t understand how Princeton’s admit rate would not go down when HYS are down to 7%? H experienced a very minimal drop while S’s decreased by more than 2%! Wth happened to Princeton?</p>
<p>Stanford did experience a surge in applications (over 30,000), and I’m willing to bet that many of those extra applications were probably sent just for the heck of it (i.e. there were people at my school who weren’t qualified but applied to these colleges anyway). But, I don’t see why it matters too terribly much - they all accept about 2150 applicants, don’t they (well, I believe that HYP do, at least)? So if they’re all accepting the same amount of equally qualified students, do the admit rates matter that much? I mean, the difference between 9.5% and 7.5% isn’t that much, is it?</p>
<p>I was under the impression that the primary reason for Princeton’s “unimpressive” admit rate this year was that applications to the university had increased at a lower rate than at, say, Harvard or Stanford. Like other colleges, their numerator in the admit fraction didn’t change much, but unlike other top colleges neither did their denominator.</p>
<p>Admit rate tells very little compared to SAT median and class ranks. Even with Stanford’s rise in apps, its SAT and class rank will probably still fall short of the PHY.</p>