College Admissions Statistics Class of 2022

Skidmore (number of applicants and ED applicants only): http://www.saratogian.com/article/ST/20180406/NEWS/180409865

Absolutely correct; this is the preferred method.

Hamilton 20.8%, down from final number of 24.2% last year.

https://spec.hamilton.edu/college-releases-regular-decision-admission-decisions-to-incoming-class-of-2022-ad1c7bdf4e38

Macalester 41%, same as last year. But an interesting announcement of a change in how applications are read in the admissions process
https://themacweekly.com/2018/04/sat-scores-up-rank-down-for-class-of-22/

Good and kinda funny take on admissions process

And I agree it’s random – but even more so if you’re not wealthy or well-connected because of early decision and legacy preference. https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/09/30/why-ive-stopped-doing-interviews-for-yale/

Carleton had a 19.4% acceptance rate for its class of 2022. “Just under 7,100” applications, a 9% increase in applications over last year’s 2021 graduating class. See:
https://apps.carleton.edu/carletonian/?story_id=1700382&issue_id=1700375

anybody knows Caltech (California Institute of Technology)'s numbers for class of 2022

last year 2021 results came out in Sept. I haven’t seen anything yet for 2022.

Adding Hamilton College per https://spec.hamilton.edu/college-releases-regular-decision-admission-decisions-to-incoming-class-of-2022-ad1c7bdf4e38
Adding Macalester College per https://themacweekly.com/2018/04/sat-scores-up-rank-down-for-class-of-22/
Adding Carleton College per https://apps.carleton.edu/carletonian/?story_id=1700382&issue_id=1700375
Adjusting Wesleyan University per http://wesleyanargus.com/2018/04/05/class-of-2022-how-does-it-stack-up/

Stanford (RD+SCEA) 2,040 out of 47,450 (4.3%)
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%)
Northwestern (RD+ED) 3,392 out of 40,425 (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 51,328 (10.3%)
Bowdoin (RD+ED1+ED2) ~935 out of 9,081 (10.3%)
Williams (RD+ED) 1,163 out of 9,559 (12.2%)
Amherst (RD+ED) 1,244 out of 9,722 (12.8%)
USC 8,258 out of 64,256 (12.9%)
Colby 1,602 out of 12,313 (13.0%)
Barnard (RD+ED) 1,088 out of 7,897 (13.8%)
Olin 125 out of 882 (14.2%)
Harvey Mudd (RD+ED) 594 out of 4,101 (14.5%)
Georgetown (RD+EA) 3,327 out of 22,897 (14.5%)
Tufts (RD+EDI+EDII) ~3,139 out of 21,502 (14.6%)
WashU (RD+ED) 4695/31300 (15%)
Tulane ~6,598 out of 38,813 (17%)
Wesleyan (RD+EDI+EDII) 2,233 out of 12,788 (17.5%)
Notre Dame (RD+EA) 3,586 out of 20,370 (17.6%)
Middlebury (RD+ED, likely excluding Febs) 1,696 out 9,230 (18.4%)
Emory (RD+ED, 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%)
Carleton (RD+ED) ~1,377 out of < 7,100 (19.4%)
NYU (RD+ED1+ED2) 15,722 out of 75,037 (< 21.0, incl. 19% for NY campus)
Hamilton (RD+EDI+EDII) 1,300 out of 6,240 (20.8%)
BU ~14,184 out of 64,473 (22%)
Georgia Tech (RD+EA) ~7,832 out of 35,600 (22%)
Vassar (RD+ED1+ED2) ~1,994 out of 8,312 (24%)
UVA 9,850 out of 37,222 (26.5%)
BC (RD+EA) 8,400 out of >31,000 (< 27.1%)
VIllanova (RD+EA+ED) 6,545 out of 22,727 (28.8%)
Florida 14,866 out of 40,849 (36.4%)
Union College (NY) 2,450 out of 6,701 (36.5%)
Macalester (RD+EDI+EDII) 2,453 out of 5,985 (41.0%)
Georgia (RD+EA) < 12,700 out of 26,500 (< 47.9%)
Santa Clara (RD+ED) ~ 7,954 out of 16,233 (49%)

Northeastern is confirmed (minus the number of acceptances which will allegedly be released in the fall) via multiple sources (admitted students day + others). Unfortunately still no formal link.

Northeastern University ~11830 out of 62,268 (19%)

Wow…19% for Northeastern. Unbelievable! Take a look at their history, and all you can say is “great job” at marketing, Northeastern!

It is very easy to get the acceptance rate down. Schools only have to remove the supplemental essay requirement, the application number will go up by 20%. I know many students applied Washington University in St. Louis because of that reason. In fact, I believe the schools just behind Washington U., such as Georgetown, Emory, Berkeley and so on should all have lower acceptance rate than Washington U.

BTW, related to this topic did anyone see the news this week that the Justice Department has opened an anti-trust investigation against a range of unnamed colleges for possible collusion on sharing admission information? Most of the details aren’t unsealed and who knows where it will need but the implication was they have some whistleblower evidence that schools are informing each other who they will be accepting and whether that leads other schools to change their behavior.

Do you have a link for an article @citivas ? Very interesting!

@jym626 there are a few discussions here http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/2072080-justice-department-investigates-early-decision-admissions-p1.html

William and Mary: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2018/class-of-2022-newly-admitted-students-find-a-home-at-wm.php

I have a spreadsheet from about 4yrs ago. If you remove the California schools, UC(B,LA,I,D,SD,SB,LB), USC, SDSt,

You end up with NYU, BU, Drexel, Northeastern, Liberty as schools with the most applicants… why? Why these over say Maryland or Cornell?

Besides NYU these schools aren’t well known at least outside of the upper east coast.

NYU, BU, Drexel, Northeastern all have a COA of 70k
Liberty COA is 45k

Are these applicants trying to buy a private education?
Are these schools in a population sweet spot?
Are these New England safety schools?
Is it just good marketing?

More people are applying to Drexel over Penn State? Bizarre.

@Greymeer Can you be more specific as to what numbers you are referring to? Drexel only has around 28k applicants and Penn State has 77k applicants according to a quick google (i.e. those numbers may be slightly dated). BU is large and nationally-known, as is Northeastern. I’m not familiar with Liberty, but its website says it has a total enrollment over 110k, presumably including online and apparently students in the military.

@Greymeer

I think schools like NYU and Northeastern offer a `sweet spot’ – not very selective (at least historically), yet offering something more than public schools around these states (note that Northeast states don’t have highly ranked public schools). Kids from wealthy families look down on going to a a public school, and if their record isn’t competitive for top 15-20 schools, they fire up applications to these privates. Also very popular among international applicants …

@osuprof Leaving Liberty aside, which is a special case, what most of the schools you are trying to describe have in common is that they are in big cities. This is attractive to many students from all over the country and the world for a variety of reasons (educational, social, professional, cultural), and is far less “scary” than it may have been in the past as cities have gentrified and crime has dropped dramatically.

To use one of your examples, all other factors being equal, would I rather be at Northeastern, in the heart of Boston, with everything that has to offer, or Storrs, Amherst, Albany, etc?