College Admissions Statistics Class of 2019 - Early and Regular Decisions

[NIHHIHH]

@xiggi where did you get all that information?

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 50.4% for Dartmouth, from http://thedartmouth.com/2015/05/28/yield-decreases-to-50-4-percent-consistent-with-most-years/:

With a yield of 50.4 percent for the Class of 2019, the proportion of students accepting the College’s offer of admission has declined from last year’s yield of 54.5 percent but is up from 48.5 percent in 2013… The College has admitted 93 students from the waitlist…

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield “above 60%” for Chicago, from http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/06/05/uchicago-welcome-more-first-generation-students:

In another record, the proportion of admitted students who have chosen to attend UChicago rose above 60 percent this year, an encouraging indicator of students’ enthusiasm for the College.

[Sue22]

I wonder if some schools’ yield rates have gone up because they are admitting more students via ED.

Please note, I am not referring to any particular school(s) mentioned in this thread. Just a general comment on yield rates.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 81.1% for Stanford, from http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/06/09/de-vx-record-81-1-percent-yield-rate-reported-for-class-of-2019/:

The Office of Undergraduate Admission reports that 81.1 percent of admitted undergraduates enrolled as students in the Class of 2019, up from 78.2 percent last year. The yield rate is the highest in Stanford history.

[Planner]

That makes Stanford’s yield slightly higher than Harvard’s.

[foosondaughter]

@@Planner

That makes Stanford’s yield slightly higher than Harvard’s.

Yes, Stanford fanboys will probably wish to trumpet loudly that 81.1% is greater than “about 81 percent.”

[xiggi]

Is Stanford known for its many fanboys on CC? I must have missed the right forums on CC!

[sbjdorlo]

Xiggi,

Can you track down stats for other UCs besides UCB? Curious about UCLA, UCSD, and UCI personally. Also, are there admission stats by major for the UCs? I know Ivies and the like don’t admit by major, though kids do apply to majors. It would still be interesting to see admit rates by majors at these schools anyways.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 32.8% for Colgate, from http://www.colgate.edu/admission-financial-aid/class-of-2019-profile.

[foosondaughter]

Preliminary yield of 49% to 50% for Duke, from http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/06/15/class-2019-potentially-largest-ever:

…Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag … anticipated that current yield—including early and regular decision applicants—will be between 49 and 50 percent, up from last year’s yield of 47.7 percent, which was Duke’s highest since 1979.

[sbjdorlo]

Does anyone have admit rates of UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI and UCD?

[xiggi]

^^ If the numbers are out, they remain well protected. The UC system is not known for timely releases. Here are the application numbers:
http://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/factsheets/2015/fall-2015-applications-table2.2.pdf

The official numbers will show up on the same site – whenever they think they should be released:
http://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/data-reports/key-reports/student-workforce-data.html

Fwiw, you could “ask Ms sun” as she specializes tracking this type of information. http://■■■■■■■■■■■■/home/uc-counselors-and-advisers-bulletin-june-2015/

I gave up a long time ago!

[Anubis13]

If anyone could answer this question, I would be greatly appreciative.

I’m most likely going to apply to Cornell for early decision. In the event that I do not get in, does my application get reconsidered with the group of “normal” applicants (those doing regular application). Thanks.

[2018dad]

^^ If you will be deferred, then yes. If you will be rejected then that’s the end of it.

[cbound88]

University of California admission stats are finally out for the Class of 2019 (Fall 2015)

http://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/data-reports/key-reports/student-workforce-data.html

[sbjdorlo]

Thank you so much, @cbound88. Some verrrry interesting numbers, particularly the OOS admit rate for Irvine, Davis, UCSD, and even UCLA. Wow. And the Intl admit rate at UCSD, Irvine and Davis. Interesting.

Also of note: UCSB was more selective than UCSD this year, and UCD was a tick more selective than UCI. Wonder how this will affect rankings next year?

[cbound88]

@sbjdorlo, my pleasure and I couldn’t agree with you more about the opportunity for out of state (and International) applicants.

For those of you looking for the highlights, check out this post:

https://college-kickstart.com/blog/item/university-of-california-fall-2015-admission-trends

[circuitrider]

@xiggi

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

Um, which of Wesleyan’s competitors has an admissions rate in the single digits?

[Sue22]

While I’d say Xiggi is only right about the single digit thing if he’s counting the Ivies (which have always been more selective than Wesleyan) as its competition, I think his basic point stands. Many of Wesleyan’s peers among the NESCAC and similar schools have seen increases in application numbers and quality while Wesleyan’s stats have remained relatively flat. For instance, Wesleyan used to be more competitive than Bates, which just posted an acceptance rate lower than Wesleyan’s for the incoming class. Middlebury, Bowdoin and Tufts seem to have left Wesleyan behind in terms of acceptance rates. By most measures of selectivity (test scores, % in the top 10%, number of applications, yield) Wesleyan is where it was 5 years ago, if not slightly down. This does not mean that Wesleyan is not still a fantastic school, just that its place at the top of the heap may be slipping a bit.

To compare Wesleyan’s stats year to year,
http://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/facts_faces/Class%20of%202019%20Profile%20REVISED%20back%20page.pdf