<p>Congratulations, guys!</p>
<p>Dartmouth</a> Admits 444 to the Class of 2015|Dartmouth Now</p>
<p>It’s the class of 2015 dude</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this DartmouthForever.</p>
<p>I’m happy that Dartmouth has published this data with some transparency so that we can compare the statistics of the ED pool with the overall pool of Dartmouth’s. Most colleges including Dartmouth claim that the ED pool has a stronger pool of students compared to regular decision. While we cannot prove or disprove this beyond doubt, it is interesting to examine the facts.</p>
<p>According to the article, the following is true:</p>
<p>ED 2015:
Valedictorians: 25%
Top 10%: 87%
Mean SAT Score: 2144</p>
<p>Dartmouth does a very, very good job at keeping much of its admissions statistics transparent. The following data is taken from this link: <a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/admissions_10.pdf[/url]”>This Page Has Moved;
<p>According to the Dartmouth Admissions factbook the following is true of our Class of 2014</p>
<p>Class of 2014 Matriculants:
Valedictorian: 32%
Top 10%: 90%
Mean SAT: 719 (CR) + 729 (M) = 1448.
1448 * 1.5 = 2172</p>
<p>Here are the facts that I’ve gathered and presented here. I encourage everyone to draw their own conclusion from what I have put here. Whether or not the inflated acceptance rate of the ED round is truly from stronger applicants is the topic I’d like to examine. Certainly an applicants is more than numbers and ranks and many outside factors are involved as well.</p>
<p>A 25% acceptance rate, that’s quite interesting. The fact that these 444 will comprise 40% of the Class of 2015 is quite a shock to me since I was never familiar with Dartmouth’s admission statistics.</p>
<p>Article says they admitted a 2010 Olympic gold medalist. Wonder who.</p>
<p>Yeah. These are some surprising numbers (to me, at least). They had said they were aiming for 400.</p>
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<p>I think you need to consider that nearly half the accepted ED students are athletic recruits, which may lower the numbers.</p>
<p>If 444 is 40% of the class, that would project to a class size of 1110. To fill the remaining 666 spots approximately 1665 will need to be admitted if the RD yield is the same as last year, 40%.</p>
<p>A couple corrections:
- last year’s yield was fifty-something percent
- the top 10% thing is misleading, not just by Dartmouth,but by all colleges. It is a bogus statistic b/c it is footnoted on US NEws and on the Common Data Set and recently on Dartmouth’s data itself, as “of those schools reporting rank”. That’s less than 30% of high schools…so that is 90% of the 30% or so reporting it, not 80% of everybody. Obvi, given half are recruits…it amazes me that nobody ever talks about this and just continues to buy the “top 10%” stats like they mean something.</p>
<p>Also, just a quick calculation to share. If D is to make its 2200 overall average SAT from last year, then the average in the RD round has to make up for that 2144 in a big way: the average RD SAT has to be 2256. Most of the Ivies are over the 2200 now so they’re prob. shooting higher which makes it even worse.</p>
<p>correction: “…not 90% of everybody”</p>
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<p>Not true. 40% of the students accepted ED are hooked (this includes athletes, legacies, developmental admits, URMs and facbrats)</p>
<p>I don’t know many of the numbers, but I remember President Kim telling us during orientation that 1/6 Dartmouth students is a varsity athlete. I assume most of them are admitted ED.</p>
<p>No way. Many varsity athletes from high school never play in college.</p>
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<p>Sorry, my statement must have been unclear. I meant to say that 1 out of 6 Dartmouth students is a varsity athlete at Dartmouth. I would wager a majority of Dartmouth students were varsity athletes in high school…</p>
<p>2144 mean SAT pretty low no?</p>
<p>I think the percentage of students who are varsity athletes is far higher than 1 of 6- my recollection is that it is 60%.</p>
<p>What percentage of Dartmouth students play a varsity sport?</p>
<p>According to Dartmouth’s most-recent Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) report (124kb PDF), there were 831 students participating in varsity athletics, comprising almost 20 percent of the undergraduate student body. </p>
<p>This is from the Dartmouth website. [Ask</a> Dartmouth - Athletics](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ask/categories/athletics/12.html]Ask”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ask/categories/athletics/12.html)</p>
<p>These athletes did not all get in early decision. That is a myth.</p>
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<p>I can’t decide if that’s supposed to be an insult directed at Dartmouth or not. What especially makes you wager that?</p>
<p>Not an insult at all. I would say the (vast) majority of my fellow classmates played at least one varsity sport in high school.</p>
<p>Not all “hooked” applicants lower the SAT mean. For instance I’m a double legacy (grandfather and father) with a 2320 SAT. </p>
<p>Now to add to the debate I lettered in Tennis (co-captain for 2 years) and Football.</p>