Dartmouth Admits Record Low of 11.5% of Applicants for Class of '14

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<p>Dartmouth</a> admits 11.5 percent of applicants for the Class of 2014</p>

<p>Excerpts:</p>

<p>"Of those who were ranked by their secondary schools, 95.3 percent of students admitted were in the top 10 percent of their secondary school’s graduating class, including 39.9 percent who were valedictorians and 11.9 percent who were salutatorians. The mean SAT scores for students admitted this year are: 733 Critical Reasoning, 741 Math, and 740 Writing."</p>

<p>The Dartmouth Class of 2014: Facts and Figures</p>

<p>A total of 2,165 students were admitted – 1083 men and 1082 women, respectively
Admitted students come from across the nation and around the world:
New England 14 percent
Mid-Atlantic 27 percent
Mid-West 11 percent
South 17 percent
West 22 percent
Outside the US 8 percent
11 percent are first in their families to go to college
9 percent are children of alumni
44 percent are students of color
7 percent are international students</p>

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<p>Thanks for those stats. Very interesting.</p>

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<p>That average SAT score is ridiculous.</p>

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<p>Yeah, the only one of my scores on par with their averages is writing, the rest are below average. Kill me?</p>

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<p>The big reason for the admit rate dropping is that more ED applicants were admitted, which in turn means that fewer RD applicants were admitted.</p>

<p>2010 admits: ED 461, RD 1704
2009 admits: ED 401, RD 1783</p>

<p>Also,
2010: 733 Critical Reasoning, 741 Math, and 740 Writing
2009: 729 Critical Reasoning, 733 Math and 732 Writing</p>

<p>Just adding them up
2010: 2214
2009: 2194</p>

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<p>I’ve done some quick calculations based on Dartmouth’s common data set from the previous year: <a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/CDS2009_2010.pdf[/url]”>This Page Has Moved;

<p>Basically, the overall yield last year came out somewhere around 48%. If you subtract the number of ED students, the RD yield for the class of 2013 comes out around 36.9%. Assuming the RD yield is the same for the class of 2014 and the total number of accepted students is 2165 (I’m assuming this number is the number of admitted students in both ED and RD) than:</p>

<p>(# of Total Accepted Students - # of ED Students)(RD yield rate)+(#of ED students)=Class Size</p>

<p>Thus:</p>

<p>(2165-461)(0.369)+461=1090</p>

<p>I understand the yield rate isn’t going to be exactly the same and there are some people who withdrawal from their Early Decision contract, but I would estimate about 1090 students to be in our class of 2014.</p>

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<p>is the 11% first generation high or low compared to the rest of the nation?</p>

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<p>Hi, I was wondering, what’s the ED statistics for this class? what was the ED rate? Thanks!</p>