<p>University</a> sees growth in Early Decision I applications - News</p>
<p>Up 18.1% from last year, up 82% from 2007.</p>
<p>schmohawk: Wow! -and there’s the EDII and RD to go! Thanks very much for the info.</p>
<p>At this rate, the acceptance rate @ GW for Class of 2015 will DEFINITELY break the Class of 2014 record of 31.5%. (It will probably be between mid 20s % to high 20s %, perhaps closer to mid 20s % acceptance rate in view this year’s projected huge increase in the number of applicants similar to last year’s.)</p>
<p>I hope you’re correct about the rate- it seems likely to me, too. I wonder if they’ll end up taking more kids ED, or if the ED rate will go down?</p>
<p>There is NO way at all the acceptance rate will be in the mid 20% range. More than likely, it will hover around 30%, and may not get into the 20%. Working in the admissions office, the mindset of the staff seems to be that there may be a 1-2% decrease in admissions, so I would not expect a huge decrease.</p>
<p>Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the overall acceptance rate go from @ 37% (for Class 2013) to 31.5% (for Class 2014)? This is a drop of 5.5%. </p>
<p>If the increase in the number of applicants from class of 2013 to class of 2014 is about the same as the increase in the number of applicants from class of 2014 to class of 2015 (and the number of admitees for both classes remain the same), can we extrapolate the drop in the overall rate of acceptance from 2014 to 2015 to be about 5%?</p>
<p>Here is why that is not going to happen. The situation you described is a bunch of hypothetical situations that will not occur. An increase in ED 1 applications does not mean that there will be huge increases in EDII or Regular Admissions and the admissions office knows that. That is the reason why there will not be a 5% drop. It would be nice to have another 5% drop but that is extremely unlikely and unprecedented for a university to drop 13% in its admit rate in a matter of 3 short years, let alone 10% decline in just two years.</p>
<p>You (and the admissions office) are correct, and here is the arithmetic:</p>
<p>Presuming the number of overall applications increases by 6 % (similar to last year’s increase), the number of overall applications goes from 21,135 to 22,403. Also presuming that GW accepts 6,655 (similar to last year’s number), then: 6,655/22,403 x 100 = 29.71%, the approximate acceptance rate for the class of 2015.</p>
<p>The EDI 18% increase may not necessarily translate to similar rates of increase for EDII and RD. Interesting, thanks!</p>