<p>I think I heard that there's going to be 500 new dorms this year. So will that change the admission rates significantly?</p>
<p>Well, considering that right now they only take about 1000 applicants (give or take), the addition of 500 dorms (that means 500+ people, because I doubt they'll all be singles), will most likely have some impact on the admissions rate. </p>
<p>Can anyone confirm how many more spots will be available, and when?</p>
<p>Might it have something to do with the expansion of some 2 year res colleges to 4-year res colleges?</p>
<p>or wait - are you talking about Whitman College (which houses 500 students, not dorms)?</p>
<p>They are going to expand admissions, but only by a small number each year. The new college isn't done yet, but at the end of a couple years, pton will eventually house 500 more students. it doesn't mean this year they're going to take in 500 more, they're going to gradually increase.</p>
<p>bottom line: yes they are increasing numbers at pton, but not a big enough amount to make a difference, esp for our year</p>
<p>An expanision of 500 students (even if they did it all at once) would only be an increase in 125 matriculating students or around 170 admits a year. Considering that Princeton admits about 1700 kids a year, if all else is constant, the acceptance rate will increase about 10% or about 1%, not a huge difference. And I'm sure that the new dorms (which are awfully nice) will also do their part to attract more applicants which would make this acceptance rate increase much smaller and perhaps even turn it into a decrease (who knows?).</p>
<p>It will take more like 185 admits at the current yield rate to produce another 125 matriculants.</p>
<p>A more important consideration is whether Princeton will adopt the common app next year. If it does, apps should rise enough to keep the reportable admit rate from rising.</p>
<p>Someone asked this question when I was at Princeton recently, and although I can't remember the exact number, the admissions officer said that they are going to increase the number of students very gradually and this coming year's increase would be extremely small.</p>
<p>umm, Byerly, Princeton accepts the common app already. Are you lost?</p>
<p>Not true.</p>
<p>Although they finally will next year.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegeadmissions.ws/princeton/%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeadmissions.ws/princeton/</a></p>
<p>That link is from May 2004.</p>
<p>Class of 2009 is matriculating in 2 weeks... the common app was most definitely available when I applied last fall.</p>
<p>YEa uhh.. the fact that the common app site has princeton on their list should be proof enough..</p>
<p>I used the common app to apply to Princeton last year.</p>
<p>....yeah...I used common app too. Good think they mistook it for their own application ;)</p>
<p>or maybe they accept the common app. hehehe</p>
<p>So did I. The Common App rules!</p>
<p>You are right. That helps explain the rebound in the app numbers from the Class of 2008. I remember noting this now.</p>
<p>Perhaps Byerly meant to say that Princeton should do away with ED and go with SCEA...which we should</p>
<p>I dont think Pton will change to SCEA anytime soon. It probably wants a higher yield rate before switching around =P</p>
<p>I think Princeton will switch to SCEA this year or next. Princeton did have EA not that long ago and its yield didn't change all that much when it moved to ED. Considering that all its peers are already SCEA I doubt that Princeton moving to SCEA would hurt its yield, I only see it raising its app numbers.</p>