<p>Seriously... Pitzer went from 37% to 25% accepted this year, CMC and Pomona are both 15% now, etc. etc.</p>
<p>Anyone have some statistics on this freaky trend? If things keep up at this rate... wow. Just wow.</p>
<p>According to a friend George Washington was about 12 this year, and it was around 37 last year</p>
<p>Whoever told you that about GW was mistaken. They probably took the number of SPOTS divided by applicants, instead of ACCEPTED divided by applicants. Makes a huge difference, since most don't accept the offer.</p>
<p>It'll apparently go down starting from 2011. Exactly one year AFTER I apply.</p>
<p>19382, I was also skeptical, but if that's wrong could you tell me what the real acceptance rate was? FWIW, she was accepted there and said they made a big point of mentioning it in the acceptance package, so I don't know what the 12% would be then...</p>
<p>"Out of the 19,450 applicants, GW has admitted 6,960, a 36 percent acceptance rate. Kathryn Napper, executive director of Undergraduate Admissions, said even if some students are admitted from the waitlist, she expects that the acceptance rate will be the lowest in the University's history. Last year GW accepted 37 percent of students who applied. "</p>
<p>yea everything is going down after 2011, but not enough to make a difference. there is also a possibility that because of the current craze, students applying in 2011 will be more qualified as they prepare for college earlier and earlier. it's scary to see some of these threads by 7th or 8th graders asking what they can do to get into schools.</p>
<p>Not to mention internationals. China will churn out like a million of the worlds smartest people by 2011 and with the increasing globalization of education I'm sure we'll see more highly qualified internationals.</p>
<p>"Are acceptance rates going to stop declining any time soon?"</p>
<p>The answer is another question:</p>
<p>Are kids going to stop applying to more than 10 colleges or so?</p>
<p>We're in the middle of the baby boomers' kids influx, which will decrease after a few years, though I'm not sure if it will be significant. The acceptance rates aren't going to decrease indefinitely, if that's what you're worried about. ^_^</p>
<p>As an aside, the 12% GWU admit rate is completely misleading. Not to sound like a pretentious jerk, but how did I not get in when its rate is 30+%? =/</p>
<p>The 37-12 drop seemed to outrageous to believe. 37-36 is actually a good bit smaller than I expected.</p>
<p>Reddune makes the most salient point. With the common app and the extreme multiplicity of apps per student, OF COURSE the admit rate will decrease. But it's not as if nos. of kids are getting rejected from all colleges -- they get rejected more because they apply more.</p>
<p>Take a look at your local grammar school/lower grades middle school/high school. The student population #'s do dwindle downwards but not an abrupt drop. My HS junior when in 6th grade had 102 kids in her grade. Her now 12 year old sister in same school in 6th grade only has 65. The numbers dwindle down towards the lower elementary grades. Doesn't help anyone in the next 5 years though. Our school district did a population study(we were running out of seats) and at that time they could predict trends back 6 years and said it would be like this for awhile, but did not warrent building onto schools.</p>