Class of 2022 Admissions

Colleges and Universities A-Z Middlebury College
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Today, Middlebury announced that it received a record high 9,230 application for the Class of 2022, offering admission to 1,296 students. This gives an overall acceptance rate of 14%.

However, I was shocked by the regular round acceptance rate:

326 students out of 640 who applied were admitted during the ED1 round (50% acceptance rate)
240 students applied for the ED2 round. There’s no information regarding how many were accepted.

8,340 students applied during the regular admission round. Given that only 1,296 students were admitted (regular round + both ED rounds), this means that anywhere from 800-900 students had to be admitted during the regular decision round. This yields to a regular decision acceptance rate between 9%-11%.

My question is: why did Middlebury offer admission to only 1,296 students when last year it accepted 1,753 students. Any thoughts? And also: why has this year been so competitve at almsot every school? From the acceptances I have gottend, almost every school has mentioned having record-high applications.

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Where did you get this data from?

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http://www.middlebury.edu/taxonomy/term/63090

For some reason you need authorization, but the tilte says they accepted 1,296 to the Class of 2022. The ED1 and ED2 information I took from the previous announcement.

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The 1,753 figure includes admits for both September and February matriculation groups. I suspect that the 1,296 figure excludes “Feb” admits.

Last year saw 1,523 acceptances for September.

I think 1,523 to 1,296 is not a shocking drop in acceptances, especially considering the fact September group was over-enrolled last year.

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because competitiveness for every school keeps going up students are applying to more schools to have a fall back. There may be more applications to individual schools but the actual enrollment rate overall for all schools will most likely only go up a small amount because students can only enroll in one school even if they get into multiple.