<p>^^ @omdad: Every year about 200 students (about one-quarter of the graduating class from Stuyvesant) applies to Yale, and in any given year Yale accepts about 10 of those students. When my son was a senior, Yale accepted 6 students from the same number of Stuy applicants.</p>
<p>I suppose Stuyvesant was included in that article to try to balance all the private schools mentioned, but the acceptance rates are not the same. Contrary to what you may think, attending Stuyvesant is NOT a hook for Yale or for any college. </p>
<p>^^ The decisions are posted on line. I’m basing the number of applicants to Yale (and other schools) on my memory of internal numbers I saw when my son and daughter attended the school several years ago. The school’s overall enrollment has increased every year (from 860 five years ago to 940 three years ago), so I doubt those general application numbers have changed much.</p>
<p>@gibby - I’m shocked by the statistics you’re reporting. I would have assumed applicants to Y from Stuyvesant would be accepted at a much higher rate than the general pool of applicants. I don’t doubt what you’re reporting; you have firsthand knowledge. It just doesn’t seem right; they’ve already cleared a high bar just to get into Stuyvesant, and they’ve received what I assume is an excellent preparatory education.</p>
<p>In your opinion, why don’t they do better with Yale admissions?</p>
<p>In any event, congratulations to your son for doing whatever he did to beat the odds. Clearly, the 4.0 and the 36 weren’t enough on their own.</p>
It’s not something that just happens with Yale. The stats are virtually the same for Stuy students attending Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Stanford and MIT. It’s difficult to stand out from a crowd of students when everyone applying from a school is a stand-out in their own right.</p>
<p>@sherpa Stuyvesant doesn’t seem to report acceptances so we have no real way of knowing what the real story is. A little back of the envelope math indicates the accept rate was around 7% in 2014, this is not bad.</p>
<p>You have just as good a chance as all the other amazing students that apply to Yale each year, 30,000+. Not saying this to discourage you, but to push you to find other schools you like just as well and apply to them. Even as a legacy with stats better than yours, my daughter still was not a sure thing. She had a excellent back up list of schools like Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Brown, Amherst, Vassar. I am not saying that Yale is your only choice, but just giving you the same advice I gave mine.</p>
Just to update before decisions come out, I was defered EA from Yale. So far I have all my college results except the ivies.
Accepted
USC
UC Berkeley
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Wash U
IU
NYU
Northeastern
Wait listed
Georgetown
Uchicago
Still waiting to hear
Brown
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Princeton
Penn
So far my college decisions have gone fairly well. I haven’t had a single rejection yet, only two wait lists.
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