<p>9% increase in ED applications (slightly less than previously reported)</p>
<p>25.9% acceptance rate</p>
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A few statistics about the students admitted through Dartmouths early decision program:</p>
<p>Women and men comprise 51 percent and 49 percent of the admitted group, respectively.
55 percent come from public high schools, 38 percent from private schools, and 7 percent from parochial schools. In all, 329 secondary schools are represented.
87 percent are in the top 10 percent of their high school class (based on the schools that provide data on class rank)
Students of color comprise 29 percent of the admitted group.
39 are first generation college students.
21 are international students.
The students are from 39 states and 14 countries.
<p>Papa Chicken, it is not as much that the admission rate is going down but that the applications (denominator) are increasing and the acceptances (numerator) stay more constant. (The ED acceptance rate formula is the number accepted divided by the number who applied.)</p>
<p>hellogoodbye-- haven't found any other ED breakdowns as detailed as the one just published, but the previously linked factbook does provide a breakdown of internationals in the entire year's enrollment:</p>
<p>Entering Yr / Int #
2004 / 67
2005 / 59
2006 / 70
2007 / 102
2008 / 88</p>
<p>Assuming (1) they intend to enroll about 35% of the class via ED, and (2) targeted international enrollment is balanced between ED & RD, then the 21 int students admitted through ED would project out to 60 for the entire class, which seems low. So yes, I agree that the 21 appears to be low. Must be missing something in how admissions approaches this, as I have a hard time believing that there was a decrease in supply, i.e., fewer international applicants.</p>
<p>thanks, papa chicken, for being one of the few to actually deal in facts. I am an alum whose son has a legacy going back more than 100 years and encompassing 8 guys. He was deferred but his SATS were not as strong as others deferred or accepted. Who knows how close he was. I've been trying to get him to look at some facts so we can have a rational discussion about how to proceed. But on this website I have seen more destructive misinformation than anything else. I have friends in Harvard admissions and I would have to say that of those posting to Dartmouth threads, none of these folks seems to understand how the admission process at selective schools actually works. It was particularly sad to see comments about minorities "unfair" advantages, international students - just the worse kind of drivel that almost validated why these kids weren't selected. Just wanted to you that valid info from another selective school says that this year all bets may be off: the juggernaut of talented kids applying all over is so great that the admission process has become as difficult for the admissions officers as it ever has been.</p>
<p>Bristolstomp: Thank you ><
I'm an international student (China / Singapore) who's.. one of the twenty-one. I am almost awed by the statistics myself, and feeling incredibly lucky. Well if anything I think that international competition for a place in Dartmouth '13 would be definitely comparable to that amongst US students, and I hope that more people would respect us internationals for that - that admissions has not been at all easy for us, and we went all out for a place in our dream university.</p>