<p>dear god, class of 2016 acceptance rate predictions:</p>
<p>Harvard: 5.8%
Yale: 6.2%
Princeton: 6.3%
Stanford: 6%
MIT: 7.1%
Dartmouth: 8.4%
Columbia: 6.9%
Brown: 7.9%
Cornell: 10.9%
Penn: 9.7%</p>
<p>Duke 8.7%
Berkeley 17% (20% Including spring admits)
UCLA 19%
USC 19%
University of Virginia 24%
Umich 32%
UCSD 28%
UCSB 38%
UC Davis 38%
UCI 39%</p>
<p>What do you think about my predicted acceptance rates for next year?</p>
<p>Are you freaking serious. :|</p>
<p>If your acceptance rates are accurate…
Well, good thing UC Davis is my top school. -shrugs-</p>
<p>I don;t think Duke, UPenn, Michigan, UCLA, USC, or cornell will reach those levels. For example Cornell I believe is around 18%, a drop to 10% is almost going to be impossible.</p>
<p>Slipper, I think most of those are realistic. In the case of Michigan, they joined the common application this year. Its applicant pool swelled by 25% and as a result, its acceptance rate dropped from 50% to 40%. It is not inconceivable that its acceptance rate should drop from 40% to 32% next year. Chicago experienced a similar drop in acceptance rate in the first 4-5 years of joining the common app.</p>
<p>Harvard: 7.0%
Yale: 7.4%
Princeton: 8.0%
Stanford: 7.1%
MIT: 9.7%
Columbia: 7.3%
Penn: 11.8%
Brown: 8.1%
Dartmouth: 9.9%
Cornell: 18%</p>
<p>Much more accurate, College acceptance rates will slightly decrease and slightly increase for some schools</p>
<p>applications to those schools, ivies especially, have way outpaced enrollment growth. I think they have doubled in the past 10 years? I wouldn’t be surprised to see all the rates drop that much.</p>
<p>These admit rates are waaaay too low. -.-</p>
<p>So low!!!</p>
<p>Hope it won’t be that low!!!</p>
<p>Cornell was at 18% this year with an all time high for applications. I don’t see their admit rate dropping 8% in one year.</p>
<p>I think most of those are overestimates of how much the rates will change. Cornell at 11%? Duke at 9%? I don’t think the addition of SCEA to Princeton will bring it down to 6% either.</p>
<p>Fun fact: Stanford’s acceptance rate in 1957 was 20%. 55 years later and it’s approaching 6%. Not that all schools will move that slowly, especially with the recent higher education boom, but still, once the acceptance rate gets dangerously low (<20%) it gets increasingly harder to lower it. And if the schools in the OP dropped their ED, their acceptance rates would be at least 3% higher.</p>
<p>Anyone got a prediction for Northwestern?</p>
<p>I’ll post them for Ivies:</p>
<p>Overall Harvard: 7%, RD: 5.5%, EA 14%
Overall Yale: 8%, RD 6%, EA 17% (Apps will decrease due to Harvard/Princeton SCEA)
Overall Princeton: 8%, RD 7.9%, EA 18%
Overall Columbia: 8%, RD 7.7%, ED 20%
Overall UPenn: 11.5%, RD 9.3%, ED 25%
Overall Brown: 9%, RD 8.1%, ED 20%
Overall Dartmouth: 10%, RD 8.7%, ED 25%
Overall Cornell: 18%, RD 16.7%, ED 35%</p>
<p>I think Berkeley’s acceptance rate will not drop anytime soon. It will stay at 20-22% range for another 5 years or so. Or, if there’s any movement within the next 5 years, it’s more likely going upward.</p>