<p>I scanned an email from W&L and within it are some stats for this year's applicants.</p>
<p>ED--a total of 539 apps received, 203 admitted</p>
<p>All apps received: 6348 (a 51% increase over the last record in 2005-06)</p>
<p>Johnson scholarship apps: 1858 of which 184 are finalists.</p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>Holy crap, if 203 are already admitted, that means the 6100 remaining applicants are competing for the other 250 spots in the freshman class.</p>
<p>I know in the past W&L's retention rate allowed admission to around 1100, but will this number be lower this year since interest has increased? How low will the admissions rate be? </p>
<p>I found this link with some numbers: Top</a> College Admission Rates</p>
<p>W&L looks like it could be in very good company, and I am glad to see its long deserved rise continue.</p>
<p>if they use the historical yield of approximately 40% it's tough competition. they may utilize the waiting list like never before.</p>
<p>roughly a 13.7 admit rate for the remaining 5800 applicants, a little less if the ED excess is rolled over to the RD pool.
total admit rate 17.46 approximately.</p>
<p>musictoad you have a very good point, they need to either lower their yield expectations (they're competing with a whole new tier of schools this year, they're going to lose more) or go to the waiting list a lot more than usual</p>
<p>dang, 11people at my school are already committed to W&L.</p>
<p>15.16% admissions rate (968 admitted / 6,385 applications)</p>
<p>Amazing. More selective than every other LAC's admissions</a> rate from last year. (And ahead of Dartmouth!)</p>
<p>It's a great time to be a General.</p>
<p>Not to be a pessimist but the key phrase words are "from last year." This was a competitive year in general and I would like to see other LACs admit rates before calling W&L the best. Also, how many people applied just because of the free application? I have no doubt that yield rate is going to plummet. It remains to be seen how heavily the school will have to go to the waiting list.</p>
<p>davidson 27.9
claremont 19
amherst 12</p>
<p>admission rates from a few LACs.</p>
<p>I also heard that this year's graduating h.s. seniors are the biggest class in ages, so admission into colleges in general was more competitive this year. Next year and years after that, however, numbers will steadily decline.</p>
<p>a few more:</p>
<p>Williams 17%
Swarthmore 15%
Bates 26-27%
Bowdoin 17%</p>
<p>actually amherst is 14%. Dartmouth is 13% this year. Pomona is 15%.</p>
<p>you mean 11 people from one high school are admitted?</p>
<p>who can tell me hw many students got waitlisted.</p>
<p>I know of one from the waitlist who's been admitted. athlete. my guess is virtually all from WL wl will be to address specific "needs" of the U.</p>