<p>Pomona has recently posted the profile of its class of 2010. The way they've presented their SAT data goes beyond the usual statement of the 25%-75% range. Don't know quite what to make of it, other than being impressed that 17% of enrolled students had 800's on CR.</p>
<p>The other thing that jumps out:
they filled almost 1/3 of their class with early decision applicants, which really seems like a lot when you're only accepting 378 students.</p>
<p>You should post this in the Pomona thread.</p>
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The other thing that jumps out:
they filled almost 1/3 of their class with early decision applicants, which really seems like a lot when you're only accepting 378 students.
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<p>It's evident from the data on the USNWR online site that the selective schools continue to enroll a large proportion of their freshmen classes from EA and ED - typically from 38-50%. Some of those schools this year have made that data unavailable although they were forthcoming with the figures last year.</p>
<p>That 1/3 (actually 113, which is more like 30%) early decision number is not as high as it seems. That 378 total number is the "enrolled" not the admitted students and Pomona usually accepts in the 950 range to get that kind of enrollment. In other words, they likely accepted about 830 RD. You should note that Princeton, Penn and some other ivies that have early decision actually get 40% to 50% of their enrolled class that way, so Pomona is low in comparison.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think 30% is sort of the "kinder and gentler" going standard. Princeton is the worst offender I've seen, they still do 50% ED, which makes their RD acceptance rate very, very low (and I've never seen any disclosure about how many of the RD acceptees are ED deferrals).</p>
<p>Notice that over 75% had athletic ECs.</p>
<p>The student body is 50/50 male-female, and the new students are 50/50 genderwise. However, looking at USNWR shows that 23% of male applicants were admitted but 17% of females. Too bad my D doesn't want to go into engineering - the tech schools are some of the few where gals are admitted at higher rates than guys.</p>
<p>Athletic ECs -- That's a big feature with small LACs that want to have teams. Some friends just came back from dropping their D at Amherst. D doesn't (can't) play sports, but they said that when someone asked for a show of hands as to who was planning to be on an athletic team, more than half of the kids raised their hands.</p>