College Admissions Statistics Class of 2019 - Early and Regular Decisions

[PurpleTitan]

@Sue22, the Ivies definitely get a bump in application numbers just from being Ivies. If Brown and Dartmouth weren’t in the Ivy League, their acceptance rates would definitely be higher.

[stresseddad]

Wesleyan University Class of 2019: 9,905 Applications Received 2,177 Admitted (21.9%) {info distributed at WesFest}. Sharp decline in applications!

[Deaston]

In 2018, Wesleyan received 9,477 applications and admitted 23.7% so in 2019 there was an INCREASE in applications and a decrease in the percentage accepted. Do you need to post erroneous statistics on every CC discussion thread?
https://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/facts_faces/2018%20Profile%20revised.pdf

[Sue22]

The Washington Post’s running list for the class of 2019, with last year’s rates for comparison.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/01/class-of-2019-admit-rates-from-selective-to-ultra-ultra-selective/

[foosondaughter]

@Deaston A somewhat better source is the Common Data Set the the college compiles. It has a stricter definition of what it means to have applied (e.g, you can’t include people who started, but never completed their application). In that doc (http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/data-sets/cds2014-15.pdf), the number of applicants was 9,390 (3,856 men; 5,534 women), and the number admitted was 2,245 (988 men; 1,257 women). So 23.9%. But by whatever measure, the 2019 numbers appear to be improved, so I’m not sure what @stresseddad was talking about.

[xiggi]

^^ No need to be snarky about this. Stresseddad might have access to the numbers in the latest USNews survey. It remains that Wesleyan application numbers dropped in the previous two years from a high of close to 11,000 to last year’s 9477 in April and the 9390 on its Common Data Set.

Is so happens that almost all schools “lose” a few applications as their March/April announced count might include partial applications with missed Common App supplements. It also happens that few schools avoid the WL admits entirely and that explains the higher number of admitted students on the Common Data Set.

For all intents and purposes, comparing the RAW numbers for one April to the other is really acceptable, as long as one understands that numbers reported in April are different from the ones showing up in October on the various CDS,

The conclusion is that Wesleyan Class of 2019 is pretty similar in terms of admission to the Class of 2015 while some of its competitors, but not all of them, experienced a large growth and became much more selective with admission rates in the single digit while Wesleyan jumped above 20 percent. No real biggie!

[stresseddad]

Sorry to all of you! What I meant to say it was a sharp decrease from years 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010. I misread the chart provided at WesFest. All those years have over 10,500 applicants. I am also unaware of any other time I posted incorrect information!

[truefalse]

http://campusgrotto.com/hardest-colleges-to-get-into.html

[QuadMaster]

From Carnegie Mellon University:

@CMU

CMU received a record 20,547 applications for the 2015–16 freshman class, up four percent from the previous year, which includes students applying to multiple schools at the university. Admitted students are 49.6 percent female, 15 percent international, and 16 percent underrepresented minorities. By May 1, the 4,863 admits will narrow to the approximately 1,450 who choose to enroll.

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/april/become-a-world-changer-in-plaid.html

[prezbucky]

I’m not sure about that. Look, we all know, or think we know, that Harvard/Yale/Princeton are the elite of the elite, and that Columbia and Penn are just a hair behind them… and that Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell are the degenerates.

But if you look at the test scores of the kids admitted to Brown/Dartmouth/Cornell, they are still among the smartest kids in the nation. That is probably because, in the cases of Brown and Dartmouth, those schools offer top-15 (easily… come on…) undergraduate educations. And in the case of Cornell, the “state school” of the Ivy lot, they have a gorgeous campus and really very strong programs, all over, at every level. Cornell is U Michigan on academic steroids probably, in some respects. And as a UW Badger, I have great respect for the University of Michigan.

I understand how some could think there is a “lesser class” among the Ivy League. But while some non-Ivy schools infiltrate the Ivy League’s grasp on all top 8 spots among our universities, none of the Ivies are crappy schools. they are all quite good.

[as9934]

I found Brown and Dartmouth to be BETTER for my purposes than Harvard, Princeton and Columbia. They seemed less pretentious, but still fabulous at academics. The same can not be said for Yale, which I found to be nearly perfect.

[erickhaven]

Hi there, I have just received my acceptance letter to UCLA. I am a Spanish Major, but I decided to take Trig this spring semester. I told the office that I would take it and I did. But just yesterday I dropped it because I wanted to put my time and energy into the three other classes that I’m taking. (which I NEED to transfer) The classes are Bio, Astronomy, and Spanish 12. I’m going to pass the classes, no problem. This Trig is not needed to fulfill the math requirement, unit transfer requirement (I have 108 units) or needed for my major prep. I already let the office know, but it says I have to wait 15 days and I’m dying of anxiety. I was rescinded my senior year to UCI because I slacked in spring and got a horrible GPA. I just want to know if you guys think I’ll get rescinded. I don’t know if i’m over thinking it. Maybe they think I’m lazy or whatever. I told them exactly what I just posted here. Thanks in advance.

[Sue22]

@erickhaven,
Not the right thread for your question. If you start a new thread you’re more likely to get responses.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 66% for UPenn, from http://www.thedp.com/article/2015/05/class-of-2019-yield-rate:

On May 1, 66 percent of students accepted to the Class of 2019 committed to attend Penn. Last year, the yield rate for the Class of 2018 was also 66 percent.

Preliminary yield of 69.4% for Princeton, from http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2015/05/at-69-4-percent-class-of-2019-yield-highest-ever/:

The University’s yield for the Class of 2019 is 69.4 percent, according to University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan. The yield is the highest in the University’s history. Of the 1,909 admitted students, 1,324 have committed to the University. This year’s yield represents a 0.2 percentage point increase from last year’s yield of 69.2 percent.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 53.1% for Bowdoin, from http://www.bowdoindailysun.com/2015/05/decisions-ours-and-theirs-dean-of-admissions-scott-meiklejohn-with-an-update-on-theirs/:

Perhaps most revealing of Bowdoin’s admissions profile, in 1997 the overall yield on offers of admission (a blend of Early Decision students enrolling at a rate of 100 percent and Regular admitted students enrolling at a lower rate) was 34.9 percent. The yield figure has been increasing each year and this year reached a record 53.1 percent, a clear indication of Bowdoin’s appeal to some of the most talented students in the world. One of our most exciting results last month was the 35.1 percent yield on Regular offers of admission — our Regular yield is now higher than the blended yield of about 25 years ago.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 81% for Harvard, from http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/5/15/class-2019-yield-81-percent/:

About 81 percent of students admitted to the College’s Class of 2019 plan to matriculate to Harvard, roughly even with the yield rates of the past two years. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid also expects to admit about 60 to 70 applicants from the waitlist in the coming weeks, marking a slight uptick from the 20 students they intended to accept from the waitlist at this time last year.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 46% for Williams, from http://williamsrecord.com/2012/05/09/class-of-2016-sees-46-yield-50-receive-aid/:

As of Monday, 545 of the 1180 students admitted to the Class of 2016 had indicated their intention to enroll at the College next fall. This number puts the Class of 2016 at a yield of 46 percent. “It’s the highest yield rate we’ve had in the last five years,” said Dick Nesbitt, director of admission. For the Class of 2015, 547 students of the 1201 admitted enrolled, resulting in a yield of 45 percent.

And from http://williamsrecord.com/2015/05/13/admissions-reports-46-percent-yield-rate-for-class-of-2019/:

As of May 1, 535 of 1187 admitted students had paid their deposits to take their spots in the class of 2019, for an overall yield of 46 percent. Of these 535 students, 244 were admitted in early decision, while 291 were admitted in regular decision. The regular decision yield was 32 percent.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 47.6% for Georgetown, from http://www.thehoya.com/admission-yield-steady-at-47-6/:

The university’s undergraduate admissions yield for the Class of 2019 stands at 47.6 percent, an approximate 1.6 percent increase from last year’s rate, as of May 1.

[foosondaughter]

Updated preliminary yield of 68.6% for Princeton, from http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2015/05/u-revises-yield/

The University adjusted its yield rate to 68.6 percent on Friday after 14 admitted students deferred their admission to the Class of 2020, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said. The yield rate is no longer a record yield rate. The previously reported yield rate was 69.4 percent, compared to last year’s yield of 69.2 percent.

[xiggi]

Enjoy a list of a few selected schools:

Selectivity Class of 2019

Schools Admit Applied %
Stanford 2,144 42,487 5.05%
Harvard 1,990 37,305 5.33%
Columbia 2,228 36,250 6.15%
Yale 1,963 30,237 6.49%
Princeton 1,908 27,290 6.99%
Chicago 2,356 30,162 7.81%
MIT 1,467 18,306 8.01%
Brown 2,580 30,397 8.49%
Claremont McKenna 698 7,152 9.76%
Pomona 790 8,091 9.76%
Penn 3,697 37,267 9.92%

Dartmouth 2,120 20,505 10.34%
Vanderbilt 3,500 31,000 11.29%
Duke 3,534 31,150 11.35%
Swarthmore 950 7,817 12.15%
Johns Hopkins 3,065 24,717 12.40%
Harvey Mudd 523 4,119 12.70%
Pitzer 536 4,149 12.92%
Northwestern 4,187 32,124 13.03%
Amherst 1,176 8,566 13.73%
Rice 2,600 17,900 14.53%
Bowdoin 1,009 6,790 14.86%
Cornell 6,234 41,907 14.88%
Tufts 3,050 19,064 16.00%
Georgetown 3,202 19,481 16.44%
UC Berkeley 13,000 78,900 16.48%
Williams 1,159 6,883 16.84%
Middlebury 1,512 8,894 17.00%
USC 9,050 51,800 17.47%
Barnard 1,301 6,655 19.55%
Notre Dame 3,577 18,156 19.70%

Bates 1,208 5,636 21.43%
Wesleyan 2,177 9,905 21.98%
Davidson 1,200 5,350 22.43%
Emory 4,796 20,519 23.37%
Carnegie Mellon 4,863 20,547 23.67%
Kenyon 1,689 7,077 23.87%
Hamilton 1,301 5,434 23.94%
Grinnell 1,580 6,414 24.63%
Vassar 1,937 7,567 25.60%
Scripps 731 2,613 27.98%
Boston College 8,232 29,400 28.00%
Virginia 9,147 30,853 29.65%

NYU 18,500 60,322 30.67%
Boston University 17,522 54,757 32.00%
Smith 1,800 5,004 35.97%
Macalaster 2,360 6,031 39.13%

Dickinson 2,700 6,028 44.79%
GWU 9,117 19,780 46.09%