@AriBenSion: Colgate references “admitted students” in the academic profile section in the link posted in reply #548. (Note, btw, that Colgate reported a 22.6% acceptance rate.)
Merc81 the Colgate admission stats do have a dropdown of admitted students from all applicants. The testing stats are a different dropdown and it says nothing about admitted students. You may be right, but you can’t tell from the Colgate release in #548.
Colgate references “admitted students” in immediate proximity to its standardized testing and GPA figures (italics added):
https://www.colgate.edu/admission-aid/apply/first-year-class-profile
Merc81 ”admitted students” is clearly only for the class rank data. Most schools no longer rank students so they had limited data.
Mathematically, Colgate would seem to have no reason to expand the database for class rank figures only, irrespective of limited general reporting of class rank.
Hm, the ones we looked at for D19 typically gave the enrolled freshman class profile. They sometimes gave the admitted profile too, but in other cases you could just compare say average SAT in freshman class to the one the colleges usually give in the press release about admissions earlier that year. How significant the difference is varies by college, ime.
Is it true that Tulane put 10,000 students on their waitlist? Combining that with the no-application fee trick (DS20 has no intention of applying and never showed any interests got a mail for it), its lowered admit rate and perceived selectivity could be misleading.
10384 students to be precise, according to the CDS. Looks like around a third of those accepted their waitlist spot.
Tulane took no one off its waitlist this year and has not done so in many years. Once again, it apparently did wind up having enough enthusiastic kids to reach its target class size and then some. Since it was able to easily fill its class with such high quality, highly interested students, I’m not sure of the value of speculating about the whether the kids who unfortunately were not admitted were attracted to Tulane’s high happiness and quality of life ranking, the heavy interdisciplinary emphasis of the curriculum, the community service orientation, the undergraduate research opportunities, the culture of New Orleans, or whether they troubled to fill out the application as a long shot without genuine interest. Not sure how that advances the discussion but I suppose it’s fair game for CC. Whatever.
I’d expect that very few of the candidates who don’t bother doing the essay get an offer - but they do go into the applicants number.
I have not seen any statistics on how many applicants did not bother to write an essay, but logic dictates that an applicant who does not write an essay should not expect an offer of admission, even if he or she was above Tulane’s 75% SAT range (1510), which of course begs the question of why a supposedly very bright, cream of the crop, graduate would waste his or her time on an endeavor whose chance of success is zero. If there are statistics on applications submitted without the applicant troubling to write the essay, the above logic dictates that the percentage is extremely low.
I agree with you, but the point is the applicant doesn’t waste any time or money, all they do is tick another college on the common app. My daughter withdrew her application after getting into her ED school, I’d presume she wouldn’t have gotten in with no extra effort, but then again she did get into another where she did the same thing and the withdrawal didn’t go through, so who knows…
Bates 12.1% admit rate
https://www.bates.edu/admission/student-profile/
Updating (Overall Acceptance Rates)
Middlebury: 17.1%
Colgate:: 22.6%
http://www.middlebury.edu/admissions/start/profile
https://www.colgate.edu/admission-aid/apply/first-year-class-profile
Updating (Overall Acceptance Rate)
Bates: 12.1% with a yield of 47.4%
https://www.bates.edu/admission/student-profile/
Bucknell - 3369 admitted from 9845 apps (34.2%)
https://www.bucknell.edu/meet-bucknell/fast-facts
Colorado College - 9454 applicants, 13.5% acceptance rate
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/welcome-class-of-2023
University of Richmond - 3500 admits from 12356 applicants (28.3% acceptance rate)
https://admissions.richmond.edu/studentprofile/index.html
Davidson - 1,091 admits from 5,973 applicants (18.3% acceptance rate). Note that out of the class enrollment of 527, early decision enrollees account for 338.
https://www.davidson.edu/admission-and-financial-aid/incoming-class-statistics
UNC Chapel Hill - first-time freshmen: 9,611 admits from 44,859 applicants (21.4%).
In state - 5,649 / 13,490
Out of state - 3,962 / 31,369
https://www.unc.edu/posts/2019/08/16/carolina-welcomes-more-than-5000-new-undergraduate-students-to-campus/