<p>Does anyone have the stats on acceptances/application numbers for the class of 2017? I'm a prospective applicant for 2018. Thanks!</p>
<p>WashU hasn’t released their stats yet. Washu’s student newspaper, Studlife will report it in one of their articles soon. But my guess is around 14 %.</p>
<p>My guess would be even lower than 14%… They really went hard on the wait list this year</p>
<p>I did a bit of math on this. So here’s the breakdown:</p>
<p>Wash U accepts almost exactly 500 students early decision each year. Because the students who apply ED are binding themselves, the acceptance rate should theoretically be slightly higher for ed. Setting that number aside, Wash U is accepting X amount of people for the remaining 1500 spots. I heard from an admissions person that last year the incoming class was about 50 kids too big, so they accepted about 100 fewer kids this year than they did last year. According to the 2012 statistics, 14% of 28,000 were accepted total. This means that 3920 students were accepted to fill the 1100 spots, give or take 200ish. Assuming that this trend of accepted students attending continues, this means about 28% of students who are accepted will attend. So to find the relative acceptance rate, we know that there are 1100 open spots and 31,000 rd applicants, the same 3920 would be accepted. However, since there are about 100 fewer students accepted, we are now looking at about 3800/31000, which is 12.25%. So I would say that acceptance rate is somewhere between 12 and 13%.</p>
<p>That being said, congrats to everyone who got accepted and best of luck to everyone waitlisted and applying next year. Maybe I will see you all there next year!</p>
<p>Has the admissions data still not been released?</p>
<p>Nope, not yet.</p>
<p>an article to enjoy:
[Undergraduate</a> applications see 10 percent increase | Student Life](<a href=“http://www.studlife.com/news/2013/03/25/undergraduate-applications-sees-10-percent-increase/]Undergraduate”>Undergraduate applications see 10 percent increase - Student Life)</p>
<p>@Smotherload, do you have confirmation that the Class of 2017 will be 50 students smaller because the Class of 2016 was 50 students over? I don’t believe WashU has done that in the past (reduce the next year’s class size). I think they are planning for a slight increase in class size each year.</p>
<p>If you read the article regarding acceptance statistics that studlife posted last year, you will find this paragraph:</p>
<p>“In 2010, 5,285 of 24,939 applicants were accepted with an admission rate of 21.19 percent. A record number of incoming freshmen accepted their offers of admissions, resulting in an oversized freshman class. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has been cutting the number of acceptance offers since.”</p>
<p>So, yes. It has happened, and still does.</p>
<p>Ryan, that article only indicates that they accepted fewer students in response to the record yield the previous year. That doesn’t necessarily mean the next year’s freshman class was smaller. They could have accepted fewer students than usual and then filled the rest of the class from the waitlist, and I’m pretty sure that’s what they did.</p>
<p>That is entirely true; sorry for missing that. I (possibly erroneously) assumed that after an oversized class they had a smaller class the following year.</p>
<p>However, a little browsing through studlife brought up the article “WU cuts number of offers to next freshman class” in which it is claimed admissions officers attempted to have the size of the incoming freshman class of 2015 around 1500, smaller than the previous year’s.</p>
<p>Edit: The quote in question: " ‘Last year we welcomed a larger freshman class than we had planned for,’ wrote Julie Shimabukuro, director of admissions, in an email to Student Life. ‘This year, we admitted 15 percent fewer students with the intention of using the waitlist to reach our target of 1,500 freshmen.’ "</p>
<p>I am a Fr. This year during our Convocation the Chancellor stated our class size (I don’t recall the number). He said our class was larger than the previous class. I thought he said it was the largest class at WashU. The speech made it seem that they were continuing to build on campus and would continue to increase the class size.</p>
<p>My friend working in the admission office said this year’s class size will be bigger than last year. As exactly how many he didn’t say.</p>
<p>Hmm, ok then. I stand corrected. Maybe that was just a one-off scenario then.</p>
<p>The Chancellor wants to grow the enrollment size. That was the point I got out of his Convocation speech in August.</p>
<p>^ That was the impression I had too.</p>
<p>As I understand it, the goal of the university is to increase the undergrad population to 7000 (it used to be 6000).</p>
<p>How are they planning to accommodate them all? There’s the new apartment complex on the Loop but that won’t be ready until 2014, and I’m not aware of any construction projects on the South 40.</p>
<p>Don’t quote me on this, but I think the S40 has a 3000 person capacity. That’s more than enough for the freshmen/sophomores/RA’s (even if each class is eventually ~1700, due to sophomores in village bloc’s/upper & lower row). The new loop project is going to be a huge draw to a lot of people, I’m guessing.</p>
<p>The current housing crush is not the youngins- its the fact that theres just not enough housing for upperclassmen who want to stay in reslife, which is why occasionally you’ll get groups of ~100 juniors shafted into living on the 40.</p>
<p>Seems reasonable. I agree that 3000 person capacity on the S40 should probably be enough for classes of 1700 with some sophomores living on the North Side. I also agree with you on the upperclassmen ResLife situation. The new apartment complex seems like it’s going to be big enough to make up for UTerrace and then some, but upperclassmen accommodations still seem inadequate. I can’t imagine the people I know living in houses and dealing with landlords took that route because they wanted to…</p>
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<p>Why? I did. I’ve been out of reslife for 3 years now, and have never looked back.</p>
<p>And I know TONS of others who did because they too wanted out of reslife for whatever reason (price, freedom, etc). My current landlord is fantastic - it’s not too hard to find a good one. My previous landlord was a bit of a nut, but she was more than adequate and fixed any issue we ever had.</p>