<p>a high 5% acceptance rate for RD! i may faint.</p>
<p>yuppp
more people + same amount of spots = less people admitted</p>
<p>Ok I refuse to believe it went up to 2900 in one year. </p>
<ol>
<li>A guy with 1 post first said that it was 2900 now.</li>
<li>A guy with 11 posts claimed his dad is a Columbia alum and got an email that said so as well. This could be to troll and watch us whine.</li>
<li>The economy. People are broke! The number, if anything, should have gone down. People need to compare financial aid packages.</li>
</ol>
<p>yea i agree with entr0py...the huge increase defies any sort of logic that can be applied to this. it just doesnt make an sense that in the current economy the number could go up that much. if anyone can explain the increase i'll be glad to hear your reasoning.</p>
<p>I thought the class of 09 was supposed to be the largest yet, I know that that is the case at least for my school.. but yeah, I don't see how that would explain such a big increase in the number of applicants... oh well</p>
<p>yea on the bright side tho...Columbia may take into account the fact that ED applicants are definitely going to enroll (while RD applicants may not enroll due to financial constraints) and therefore take more people ED than they did in previous years. this is just wishful thinking on my part but i hope im right</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the other ivys received a more significant number of ED applications this year also?</p>
<p>If so, then I guess that would apply for Columbia also. (I hope not haha)</p>
<p>I am an alum interviewer for Columbia for many years and I have NOT received an email yet from the admission office giving any stats. There is a thread over on the parents forum reviewing released stats from the other ivies. Most of those stats released are up 7-10% this year. I believe these are official stats. As far as I know Columbia has yet to release these numbers</p>
<p>entr0py - 2900 applicants is very possible.</p>
<p>First, read this article. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/education/21college.html?ref=education%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/education/21college.html?ref=education</a> ED apps are up across the board - 40% at Wesleyan, 10% at Dartmouth, 15% at Northwestern, 20% at Pomona, etc. A similar increase for Columbia is not unlikely at all.</p>
<p>Second of all, as I pointed out earlier in the thread, this is the first year of Columbia admissions with the new financial aid enhancements, which consist of grants replacing all loans, significantly reduced parental contributions for families making 100k and under, and free tuition for families making 60k and under. This gives middle-class and lower-income families SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED incentive to apply ED, as they can count on a strong financial package from Columbia and not have to worry about comparing financial aid in RD. </p>
<p>Third of all, there's the Obama effect. This one's probably small, but I'm sure there will be a few applicants, perhaps those who are interested in politics/government/international relations, who will be drawn to the fact that our 44rd President graduated from Columbia. </p>
<p>Given all of this, an increase of ED applicants is not unlikely at all.</p>
<p>oh my... I hope I can get in RD.</p>
<p>I really love Columbia so much and it would suck not to get in.</p>
<p>^ yep, most had 10%+ increases and this is including MIT and Stanford. The only top school with a confirmed decrease for ED apps is Brown. But seriously, who the heck would want to go to Brown.</p>
<p>And for those shouting troll, the numbers they tell us are actually very possible considering the increased apps received by peer schools of similar caliber. To be honest there are significantly more variables than just a financial crisis that could tip the scale for a surplus.</p>
<p>A review from the parents forum</p>
<p>ED applications:</p>
<p>George Washington University-Up 50%
St. Olaf - Up 50%
Wesleyan - Up 40%
Claremont McKenna - Up 28%
Duke - Up 25%
Pomona - Up 20%
Northwestern - Up 15 %
University of Richmond - Up 14%
Colby - Up 13%
Haverford - Up 13%
Dartmouth - Up 12.5%
Middlebury - Up 12%
Cornell Up 9% (probably ED, but may be more)
Barnard Up 8% (probably ED, but may be more)
Hamilton - Up 8%
Bowdoin - Up 7.9%
Union College - Up 7%
Amherst Up 5% (probably ED, but may be more)
Occidental Up 3.5%
NYU - Up 2.3%
Elon - Up 1%
Dickinson flat
Johns Hopkins - <0.6>
Brown - <4.5>
Williams - <6.5> (as of 11/14)</p>
<p>MIT EA - Up 25%
Stanford EA - Up 18%
Yale EA - Up 10.4%
U Of Chicago EA - <15%></p>
<p>omg i was choosing between brown and CU (COMPLETELY different cores)</p>
<p>but i decided CU :)</p>
<p>im hopppppppping its going to go downnnn</p>
<p>18 for stanford?! wow, this year is crazyyyyyy</p>
<p>Penn ED down 8%</p>
<p>From U of P </p>
<p>Furda wrote in an e-mail that as a result of recent layoffs and the collapse of the financial service industry, fewer students applied to Wharton than in past years. Only 29 percent of the total early decision applications applied to the school .</p>
<p>Fifty-seven percent of early decision applicants applied to the College, 12 percent to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and two percent to the School of Nursing.</p>
<p>While, as usual, almost half of this year's applicants hail from the Mid-Atlantic, the number of applicants from California dropped from 332 last year to 292 this year.</p>
<p>This number is "soft" compared to last year's, Furda said, particularly since the University had increased recruiting efforts in the state this year. Despite the drop, he said Penn will continue its strong California recruitment efforts due to the size and demographics of the state.</p>
<p>In addition, he said next year's recruitment will have an increased focus on the Southeast United States, from Texas to Florida.</p>
<p>International applications remained relatively stable, with 602 applicants compared to 605 last year.</p>
<p>The gender distribution also stayed fairly even with 46 percent female applicants, up from 45 percent in last year's pool.</p>
<p>This year's total, however, does not include the 220 applicants who applied to the University through QuestBridge, a separate application program for low-income students with which the University partnered for the first time this year.</p>
<p>are SEAS and CC applicants in competition with one another? that is...if, for example, the number of SEAS applicants went up but the number of CC applicants went down, but the number of total applicants went up, would someone applying to CC still have a better shot, or would the increased number of SEAS applicants affect her negatively still?</p>
<p>^ no. separate.</p>
<p>ahh good. thanks thebeef. because there are a ton of people applying to engineering from my school but i only know of one other applying to CC (as am i) so i was a little nervous about that.</p>
<p>No, I disagree, you see in this crisis colleges are shutting down. So, fearing a small college is threatened by this crisis, people are applying to the big dogs as a harbor. They are looking for schools that can weather this, which, frankly, some IVY leagues might come out of this battered. (Harvard is getting it's endowment reduced so much by this) Columbia is suffering too. If the big dogs are having trouble, the small, non community, colleges are getting slaughtered.</p>
<p>DrBurst has a point. I like the fact that Columbia is filthy rich, especially when compared to some of the cash-strapped public schools in my state. Even so, Columbia has said that it will have to be more conservative with hiring and jobs. Imagine what it'd be like for a school without a multi-billion dollar endowment.</p>