<p>unless it's an RD only figure 8-9% doesn't really make sense. If you take the roughly 25,000 figure for this years application, and the 2,700+ acceptances for the class of 2012, you get a rate of just under 11%. And, I would bet Brown is banking on a lower yeild this year, because a big chunk of the increase in applicants probably comes from the fact that this is the first year Brown was on the common app, so a lot of those new applicants probably don't consider Brown their first choice.</p>
<p>If the 8-9% figure is an accurate TOTAL admissions rate figure, than I predict some major waitlist action this year.</p>
<p>I don't want to be a downer but the 2700+ acceptances that kmatimber2 used includes the 550 ED acceptances. So for RD, the number of people accepted could be as low as 2000 (depending on predicted yield), in past years, less than 2500 were accepted (including ED).
But, who knows what the yield will be due to the financial crisis. Many people are applying to more schools and then comparing the FA package.</p>
<p>......</p>
<p>(2700-550)/(25000-550)= .088
so 8-9% acceptance sounds right...if 2700 is the total admitted to 2013</p>
<p>Look at it this way: whatever the acceptance rate is, your change of getting in is 100%... or 0% :)</p>
<p>Lol does Brown send nice rejection letters in the mail? I'll consider that enough of an accomplish if I get rejected.. but I obviously hope i get in lmao</p>
<p>^Every college in the US has a nice rejection letter, especially true for the top privates and the Ivies. If they had a nice big "REJECT," the suicide risk for overachieving high school seniors could very well double.</p>
<p>in response to gobrown: I agree that 8-9% makes sense for an RD number, I was just arguing that it seems unlikely the overall admit rate will drop that low.</p>
<p>Everybody relax: that number is for RD. That's only about 2% lower than usual. So there shouldn't be a huge change in the overall acceptance rate, especially since - given the economic crisis - yields will be significantly lower at all schools.</p>
<p>Last year, though, I thought the number of acceptances was 3335 and the yield was ~52.6%. If they're only accepting 10% or less, that's 2,500 people or less. How can they expect their yield to be so high this year? (I didn't factor in ED, maybe I should've)</p>