Well, it is “kinda” a lie! The reality is that Penn is probably comparing what they announced last year at the same time. Without the 136 WL admits, the rate would have been 9.9872!
Considering where Penn was in the Stetson area, I think that their degree of transparency and timeliness is simply remarkable. Just above or just below 10 percent does not make any difference.
Now if Cornell or Chicago would adopt the same alacrity in sharing their numbers!
36,250 students applied this year, and 2,228 students can expect big envelopes in the mail. The admissions rate is 6.1 percent—slightly lower than last year’s rate of 6.94 percent.
Brown University accepted 2,580 of 30,397 applicants, or an 8.49% acceptance rate. Last year, the university had a 8.6% acceptance rate.
Dartmouth College accepted 2,120 students from 20,504 applications, for an admissions rate of 10.3%, according to a college spokesperson. Dartmouth received 19,235 applications last year.
The University of Pennsylvania accepted 3,697 from 37,267 applicants — the largest in the University’s history — according to a university press release. The admissions rate for the Class of 2019 stayed the same as last year, at 9.9%.
Yale University’s admissions rate rose, from 6.26% for the Class of 2018 to this year’s 6.49%. Yale admitted 1,963 of 30,237 applicants, according to a university press release.
Georgetown accepted 3,202 applicants to the Class of 2019 for an overall acceptance rate of 16.4 percent, a rate that remains steady from the previous year. Decisions for the regular application cycle were mailed out Friday. Georgetown received 19,481 applications to the Class of 2019.
Swarthmore College has sent letters of admission to 950 prospective members of the Class of 2019. Twelve percent of the 7817 students who applied were offered a position in the first year class. Based on previous admissions patterns, Swarthmore expects this group of admitted students to yield a first-year class of about 418 for next fall.
Barnard received a record-breaking 6,655 applications to join the Class of 2019, representing a 17 percent jump from last year. Of those applicants, 1,301 young women from around the world were admitted, marking the lowest admit rate in the College’s history, at 19.5 percent. With applicant numbers having increased by almost 45 percent over the last ten years, Barnard remains the most selective women’s college in the United States
@NIHHIHH You should take most of these numbers with a grain of salt at this point, since the number of accepted students doesn’t include those who will get off the waitlist – which is substantial in many cases. For these schools, the true acceptance rate will end up being noticeably higher than the initial rate reported. That said, you can closely estimate Davidson’s class of 2019 acceptance rate based on their 2018 statistics (http://www.davidson.edu/admission-and-financial-aid/class-of-2018-profile) and the 5,350 applications this year (http://www.davidson.edu/news/news-stories/150326-congratulations-to-admitted-students). Assuming the same yield (42.3%), they will need to accept 1,182 to fill a class of 500. This would equate to an acceptance rate of 22.1%. They probably accepted about 1,125 initially (which would mean taking about 24 from the wait list if the yield were the same), which would represent an initial acceptance rate of 21.0% (useful for comparison to the rates reported in this thread).
The reliance on waitlists is hardly universal. While it is important to look beyond a drastic drop in the admission rate at a school, the differences between April and September are NOT always noticeable. A simple google search of the available CDS goes a long way to separate facts from fiction.
Projecting yield is a fool’s errand as there are many factors that could create huge swings in the final decisions of the successful applicants.
Total applications for the Emory College of Arts and Sciences exceeded 20,000 for the Class of 2019, setting a new record in a successful undergraduate admissions season for the university.
Across the board, by nearly every measure, markers of student interest in Emory University have grown dramatically this year:
•Emory College of Arts and Sciences applications rose 15 percent to 20,519, exceeding 20,000 for the first time.
•Oxford College applications jumped 31 percent to 9,736.
•Applications to the highly selective Emory University Scholars Program grew 108 percent to more than 6,700.
•For both campuses, admission letters went to an ever-widening pool of international applicants and — also for the first time — students in all 50 states within the U.S.
Overall, Emory College admitted 4,796 students — 23 percent of those who applied. Oxford College admitted 3,715, or 38 percent.
The Office of Undergraduate Admission offered admission to just under 5,000 students this year. They were selected from a pool of nearly 15,000, setting a new application record for the university for the 11th consecutive year. A total of 1,520 students are expected to enroll in the fall.