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—-Full Disclaimer: This is a theory to explain it. Not my view of the school or it’s advocates. —

Perhaps it’s a perceived intellectual snobbery of the “life of the mind” purists juxtaposed against the less noble marketing machine/ranking concerned reality of the school’s administration? Those who want to seem above it all? It can be viewed as hypocritical. Rubs some people the wrong way??? The incessant emails to students without a reasonable chance to attend and why does a school that is so elite, do this to unwitting students. It leads to a lot of broken hearts. And angry parents. Beneath them in a way?

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Meh, I think most of the griping comes from the opposite perspective - an attitude of how dare that school full of quirky, intellectual weirdos located in a non-East Coast city presume to be as good or better than the colleges we KNOW are the best?

And a little bit of snobbishness about a college marketing itself being somehow unseemly. One must accept one’s pre-assigned station and all that… (insert eye roll here.)

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@milee30 Yeah you’re probably right. Just trying to think it out. But there does appear to be anecdotal evidence that the marketing efforts are a bit more “enthusiastic” than most. Maybe promulgated by the east coast folks you mention. Who knows? Definitely not me. Never attended. No one I know ever applied.

Cousin was dean of the medical school a few years back and we all thought it was quite an honor at school at that level of excellence.

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CU123, I offered one example of the criteria used by US news to show how colleges have acted to manipulate the rankings. There certainly are other examples as well of using the criteria to manipulate the rankings, such as graduation rates, alumni giving, “expert opinion” and so forth. For instance, top colleges started implementing programs not to weed out students but to support them and shepherd them through to graduation (and that’s a good thing) and they had fund-raising drives to get alumni to give ten dollars so they could report a higher percentage of giving alums. And yet another very subjective, not to mention questionable data stream of the US News College ranking methodology is the “expert opinion” criterium, which comes from a U.S. News survey of “top academics,” which includes presidents, provosts and deans of admissions, who are asked to rate the academic quality of peer institutions, as well as nearly 24,400 high school counselors who are also surveyed. Oh, that’s not biased or political or anything. Gosh, you might even be one of the experts with your 2,939 posts on College Confidential! Ultimately, the above were and are ways to manipulate the data. And so the problem is you’re doing the math with data that could be junk. You have know way of knowing that a lot of the data aren’t junk. And so another problem is you’re assuming that the data is all quality data. And, yes, the success of a data-based ranking comes from the quality of the data. But what if it isn’t quality data? If a lot of the data is baloney, you get baloney. And you’re also assuming that there is no politics or bias involved from the people developing the rankings and deciding what is important to them or to their target audience as when US News College rankings changes the methodologies, as it often has. And you conveniently didn’t bother to address the great fluctuations that I pointed to in the rankings, such as Caltech’s 1988 ranking at #21 and its 1989 ranking at #3 or Johns Hopkins 1995 ranking at #22 and its 1996 ranking at #10. Explain the math behind that, sir! And finally, the problem is that far too many people, like you, have bought into these rankings. You call them a tool for helping people decide where to go to college. Yes, they are a tool, but for what: to tell us which universities are the wealthiest, which universities have the highest-paid faculty with the best resources and which universities have the smartest students based on grades and test scores (which are also higher among wealthier students). If that’s the case one need only look at a ranking of the universities with the biggest endowments and they could arrive at a ranking comparable to US News College rankings. A tool? Yeah, one should glance at it and move on, and not give it the seriousness that you and others do.

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Anyone have stats on this year’s acceptance rates at midwest LACs, such as Oberlin, Kenyon, Grinnell? These seem to be missing and I’m curious if they have had similar trajectories as other LACs here. I saw that Mac’s went from 41% to 31% acceptance in 1 year which is pretty astonishing and these others are in the same (if not more competitive) tier so to speak.

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I agree with @Maximilias there are clearly ways to manipulate the rankings. Even though rejection rate/yield isn’t directly a metric “reputation” is. Most of the public high school counselors in the US would be unable to name top LACs outside of their state. The hard metrics that count like graduation and retention rate, test scores, grades, racial mix of the schools are free from nces.ed.gov under college navigator. So having lots of application and rejecting a lot of people (why schools may fill have their class with ED) will “help” USNWR rankings via reputation.

any policy that is unclear from a college is always framed to encourage more applications not fewer; “subject tests are not required” etc… Bowdoin test “optional”.

More stupid stuff in USNWR rankings is “faculty pay”; living in Boston or Palo Alto is always going to require high pay than living in Davidson NC etc… Does USNWR adjust faculty pay based on cost of living? I doubt it.

There are a lot of dumb metrics in USNWR - some can be gamed easily (double faculty pay) some are indirect “reputation” (by rejecting a lot of applicants and getting a lot of them. UCLA passed UC Berkeley in rankings in part I would suggest by getting >110,000 applications; my kid got emails from UCLA not Berkeley despite being 1000s of miles away from both and never expressing interest).

I am curious to see if a school like Amherst adds ED2 since that is a clear way to increase yield and reject more applicants. And yes, U. Chicago deserves its gaming the system reputation, and it has nothing to do with geography.

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Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Amherst ED1+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (11%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)

(fixed Amherst, no ED2)

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No Williams’ data?

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https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/3_19_2019_class2023/

@makemesmart

12.4%

Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Amherst ED+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (10.8%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
Williams College ED+RD 1205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)

In the spirit of not “ranking” by accept rate, I’ll reorder as alpha:

Amherst ED+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (10.8%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Williams College ED+RD 1205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)

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Adding Barnard
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2019/03/25/barnard-admissions-rate-falls-to-record-low-113-percent-for-class-of-2023/

and Harvey Mudd
https://tsl.news/claremont-colleges-admissions-2019-2023/

Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Amherst ED+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (10.8%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
** Barnard ED + RD: ~1,053 out of 9,319 (~11.3%) **
Williams College ED+RD 1205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
** Harvey Mudd ED1 + ED2 + RD: (13.4%) **
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)

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“Swarthmore College has sent letters of admission to 995 prospective members of the Class of 2023. Twenty-seven percent of the admitted students are among the first generation in their family to attend college, and 36 percent are affiliated with local, national, and international community based organizations like Lenfest Scholars, QuestBridge, Venture Scholars, and Bridge2Rwanda.”
"Swarthmore received another robust and diverse pool of applications this year—more than 11,400. "
(https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/995-admitted-to-swarthmore-class-2023)

Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Swarthmore ED1 + ED2 + RD: 995 out of 11,400+ (8.7%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Amherst ED1+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (11%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
Williams Ed+RD: 1,205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)

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Just combining those last 2 as you cross posted

Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Swarthmore ED1 + ED2 + RD: 995 out of 11,400+ (8.7%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Amherst ED + RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (10.8%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
Barnard ED + RD: ~1,053 out of 9,319 (~11.3%)
Williams College ED+RD 1205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
Harvey Mudd ED1 + ED2 + RD: (13.4%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory (Decatur) ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory (Oxford) - 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)

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Also not sure if this was mentioned yet but here’s some news from Vanderbilt

https://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2019/03/class-of-2023-regular-decision-summary-statistics/

6.3% RD acceptance rate. As per usual, they don’t release an overall acceptance rate, only admit rates for the ED and RD cycles separately. They don’t provide actual application and admit numbers in their ED news release so we can only make an educated guess of the overall admit rate.

According to the common data set, Vanderbilt received 4,100 ED apps last year and admitted 852 for an ED admit rate of 20.5%. This year that number was 19.8%. If we assume the same number of students were accepted in the ED round, meaning ~850 is 19.8% of the Early applicant pool, that brings us closer to 4,300 Early applicants.

Assuming the RD numbers don’t include applicants deferred from the ED round, the numbers should work like this.

4,300 ED + 32,967 = 37,200 Total Apps
850 ED + 2,088 = 2,938 Total Admits

Leaving us with a ~7.9% admit rate. almost a 2% drop from the previous cycle.

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By admission rate:

Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Swarthmore ED1 + ED2 + RD: 995 out of 11,400+ (8.7%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Amherst ED1+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (11%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
Williams Ed+RD: 1,205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)

By alphabetic order:

Amherst ED+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (10.8%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Swarthmore ED1 + ED2 + RD: 995 out of 11,400+ (8.7%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Williams College ED+RD 1205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)

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Update (sorry for omissions in the above post #314)

Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)
Vanderbilt RD:2,088 out of 32,967 (6.3%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Swarthmore ED1 + ED2 + RD: 995 out of 11,400+ (8.7%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Amherst ED + RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (10.8%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
Barnard ED + RD: ~1,053 out of 9,319 (~11.3%)
Williams College ED+RD 1205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
Harvey Mudd ED1 + ED2 + RD: (13.4%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Emory (Decatur) ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Emory (Oxford) - 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)

Amherst ED+RD: 1,144 out of 10,567 (10.8%)
Barnard ED + RD: ~1,053 out of 9,319 (~11.3%)
Bowdoin ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~831 out of 9,332 (~8.9%)
Brown ED+RD: 2,553 out of 38,674 (6.6%)
BU EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~11,260 out of 62,210 (~18.1%)
Colby ED1 + ED2 + RD: 1,295 out of 13,584 (9.5%)
Columbia ED + RD: ~2,171 out of 42,569 (~5.1%)
Cornell ED + RD: 5,183 out of >49,000 (~10.6%)
Dartmouth ED + RD: 1,876 out of 23,650 (7.9%)
Duke ED + RD: 3,064 out of 41,613 (7.4%)
Emory ED1 + ED2 + RD: 4512 out of 30,017 (15%)
Emory Oxford College- 3432 out of ~18,000 (19%)
Georgia Tech EA+RD: 6940 out of 36936 (18.8%)
Harvard REA + RD: 1,950 out of 43,330 (4.5%)
Harvey Mudd ED1 + ED2 + RD: (13.4%)
Macalester ED1+ ED2 + RD: ~2,048 out of 6,598 (~31%)
Middlebury ED1+ED2 +RD: 1,547 out of 9,750 (15.9%)
MIT EA + RD: 1410 out of 21,312 (6.6%)
NYU ED1+ED2+RD: 12,307 out of ~85,000 (~16% overall, 14.4% NY Campus)
Penn ED + RD: 3,345 out of 44,960 (7.4%)
Pitzer ED1 + ED2: 532 out of ~4,409 (~13.2%)
Princeton SCEA + RD: 1,895 out of 32,804 (5.8%)
Rice ED + RD: 2,364 out of 27,084 (8.7%)
Scripps ED1+ ED2 + RD: (29.8%)
Swarthmore ED1 + ED2 + RD: 995 out of 11,400+ (8.7%)
Tulane EA+ ED1+ED2+RD: ~5,400 out of 41,365 (~13%)
USC: 7400 out of 67,000 (11%)
UVA RD+EA: 9,725 admits from 40,869 (23.8%)
Vanderbilt RD:2,088 out of 32,967 (6.3%)
Washington and Lee - 1,115 out of 6,178 (18.0%)
WashU ED1 + ED2 + RD: ~3,556 out of ~25,400 (~14%)
Williams College ED+RD 1205 out of 9,715 (12.4%)
Yale SCEA + RD: 2,178 out of 36,843 (5.9%)

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^Vanderbilts 6.3 is RD all others are total.

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@midwestmom2019 asks if anyone has stats on this year’s acceptance rates at midwest LACs, such as Oberlin, Kenyon, Grinnell.

http://magazine.grinnell.edu/news/best-qualified-pool-applicants

While the article does not mention acceptance rate, it mentions that Grinnell received a record number (7,961) of applicants in 2019. Based on the number accepted in previous years, that likely drops the acceptance rate below 20%.

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What’s going on with Colby College? All colleges have a trajectory of dropping acceptance rates, but Colby’s are insane. They went from a 28% acceptance rate in 2014 to a 9.5% acceptance this year. For comparison, Amherst went from 14% accepted in 2014 to 11% this year.

Does anybody know why and how?

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Boston College.

  1. 9,500 up from 8200 students in 2018 from a total pool in 2019 of 35550 up from 30500 in 2018. This makes for an acceptance rate of 26.7 percent