Can you guys add Gtech as well… Although their info is a bit vague.
https://www.myajc.com/blog/get-schooled/georgia-tech-sees-largest-applicant-pool-its-history/mhPQD8MJ9MQV0JG2TSMQnK/
35,600 apps 22% admitted~ 7832 total
Adding Georgia Tech:
Harvard (RD+SCEA) 1,962 out of 42,749 (4.6%)
Princeton (RD+SCEA) 1,941 out of 35,370 (5.5%)
Columbia (RD+ED) 2,214 out of 40,203 (5.5%)
Yale (RD+SCEA) 2,229 out of 35,306 (6.3%)
MIT (RD+EA) 1,464 out of 21,706 (6.7%)
Pomona (RD+ED) 713 out of 10,245 (6.9%)
Brown (RD+ED) 2,566 out of 35,438 (7.2%)
Duke (RD+ED) 3,097 out of 37,390 (8.3%)
Penn (RD+ED) 3,731 out of 44,491 (8.4%)
Dartmouth (RD+ED) 1,925 out of 22,033 (8.7%)
Swarthmore (RD+ED) 980 out of 10,749 (9.1%)
Johns Hopkins (RD+ED) 2,894 out of 29,128 (9.9%)
Cornell (RD+ED) 5,288 out of >51,000 (10.3%)
Williams (RD+ED) 1,163 out of 9,559 (12.2%)
USC 8,258 out of 64,256 (12.9%)
Colby 1,602 out of 12,313 (13.0%)
Harvey Mudd (RD+ED) (14.5%)
WashU (RD+ED) (15%)
Tulane ~6,598 out of 38,813 (17%)
Wesleyan (RD+EDI+EDII) 2,186 out of 12,788 (17.1%)
Middlebury (RD+ED+Febs) 1,696 out 9,230 (18.4%)
Emory (ED+RD, excl. Oxford-only apps) ~5,135 out of 27,759 (18.5%)
Davidson ~1,066 out of 5,700 (18.7%)
Haverford 877 out of 4682 (18.7%)
Wellesley ~1,267 out of 6,670 (19%)
BU ~14,184 out of 64,473 (22%)
Georgia Tech (RD+EA) ~7,832 out of 35,600 (22%)
UVA 9,850 out of 37,222 (26.5%)
VIllanova (RD+EA+ED) 6,545 out of 22,727 (28.8%)
Florida 14,866 out of 40,849 (36.4%)
Georgia (RD+EA) < 12,700 out of 26,500 (< 47.9%)
Santa Clara (RD+ED) ~ 7,954 out of 16,233 (49%)
Cross-posted.
Anyone have stats for Case Western?
Vanderbilt: https://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2018/03/class-of-2022-regular-decision-summary-statistics/
7.3% for the RD pool of applicants
Northwestern: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2018/03/24/campus/northwestern-acceptance-rate-falls-to-8-4-percent/
Total Acceptance: 8.4%
RD Acceptance: 6.4%
A 9 percent drop is really an effort in gaming the ranking, unbelievable. I wonder what portion of the class is ED?
Boston College
https://bcheights.com/2018/03/26/bc-accepts-27-percent-2022-applicants/
27%
I wonder if BU will pass BC in perception not that their more selective than the latter. We will see.
Bowdoin College - 10.3%
http://bowdoinorient.com/2018/03/30/acceptance-rate-for-class-of-2022-is-lowest-ever/
Does anyone have the admission rates for U Richmond, Tufts, and Northeastern?
Why when people are refreshing the aggregate lists are we only combining RD + ED data even when separate ED only and RD only data was available? Example, someone posted very precise data on Middlebury (I have always liked their transparency) but the list above only showed the aggregate. It’s far more useful to people when the data is available to see ED and RD independently.
On BC, their EA rate was 31%. In past years, I believe they strove to have similar EA and RD rates, but this year, the RD rate was about 22%. (This was predicted by the admissions director in January - he said about 20% of the EA-deferred applicants would be accepted in RD.) I wonder what brought the change - perhaps merely the increase in early apps, which were up 15% (apps were up 9% overall) coupled with last year’s overenrollment.
I would be interested if anyone can give insight into the difference in percentage once you remove the targeted groups from EA. Recruited athletes, quest bridge, one student from every state/country, etc… Looking at the raw stats might be deceiving. It looks like it is a huge advantage to apply EA but is it really any different for the kid with great stats that doesn’t represent one of these targeted groups?
@19parent That would be the holy grail of data that some parents would pay thousands for access to. But I think almost all colleges are extremely sensitive not to release that data. A few people here have tried to reverse engineer it but not matter what you’re forced to make assumptions.
Most schools spin a story that their ED #'s are mostly due to athletes, legacies, etc. because they prefer the perception that their higher ED admit rates don’t reflect overall less selectivity or that they “lower their standards” for ED. But in the vast majority of cases this is not entirely the case. Even if a school tells you there is no advantage to ED if you aren’t hooked, there usually is. We just don’t know how much. The Middlebury data was interesting because it broke down ED1 and ED2. Athletes would have all been scooped up in ED1 so ED2 is arguably a more accurate comparison to straight commitment advantage and it still admitted at almost twice the rate as the RD pool. I actually admire the schools that straight-up admit they are giving you an advantage to apply ED regardless of hook. I recall both Haverford and Wesleyan saying so in their Info Sessions.
Aggregating across the 8 Ivies to see the overall trend from Class of 2020 to Class of 2022:
Class of 2020 (common data set, except Columbia)
Total applicants 273,029
Total admits 23,503 = 8.6% (includes admits from waitlist)
Total ED applicants 34,186
Total ED admits 7,083 = 20.7%
Inferred RD pool 238,843 (not including deferred EA/ED pool)
Inferred RD/waitlist admits 16,420 = 6.9% (%age would be slightly lower if including deferred applicants)
Class of 2022 (generally from recent college or student newspaper releases. Columbia did not release ED admits, assume it is 700; Cornell announced 10.3% admit rate which implies ~51,340 applicants)
Total applicants 306,930
Total admits 21,856 = 7.1% (not yet including admits from waitlist)
Total ED applicants 41,015
Total ED admits 7,453 = 18.2% (assume Columbia 700; this was 740 when it was last announced in 2016)
Inferred RD pool 265,915 (not including deferred EA/ED pool)
Inferred RD admits 14,403 = 5.4% (%age would be slightly lower if including deferred applicants, but will become slightly higher after waitlist is used)
Class of 2021 enrollment 14,763 (common data set, except Columbia)
Observations:
- More than half the class is admitted from ED/EA pool now - not the case two years ago (although not all these admits will enroll).
- ED/EA applicants up 20% in two years, but number of ED/EA admits is also higher - although higher by only 5.2%.
- RD pool up 11.3% in two years, while RD admits are 12.3% lower, driving the RD admit rate down from 6.9% to 5.4% (a 21% relative decline).
These trends seem to be even more pronounced at other highly selective schools. Unfortunately, the data from many schools (like Chicago!) are too sparse or just not released, preventing a more complete picture from being put together.
Any info on UMich, Gtown, and did UNC and UVA release yet?
UVA released some data March 23, on post #138
citivas says “I actually admire the schools that straight-up admit they are giving you an advantage to apply ED regardless of hook. I recall both Haverford and Wesleyan saying so in their Info Sessions.”
this is fascinating. At the Stanford info session my daughter and I attended a year ago the admissions officer was very adamant that it was no benefit to apply EA and actually might be more advantageous to apply RD. I remember thinking to myself “I wonder why he said that” it would seem to me a benefit to look more favorably at students who would put their college at the head of the line. I figured that it must be because they used EA to pull out any targeted athletes, legacies or other groups.
@19parent, SCEA at Stanford does indeed seem to confer no advantage at all.
Policies differ by school but they aren’t that hard to tell just by comparing ED with RD admit rates.