Do you think the acceptance rate will decrease?

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<p>So do you think Columbia's acceptance rate will decrease?</p>

<p>Many people predicted, before the stats came out, that the acceptance rate would decrease due to a great influx in the number of applicants, due to Columbia having started accepted the Common app. However, now that the stats came out:</p>

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Columbia ED applicants have risen to a total of 3217 from last year's 2983, reflecting a 7.84% increase.

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<p>Some</a> Early Returns on Early Admission - NYTimes.com</p>

<p>It doesn't seem that common app caused that much of a difference (especially in relation to many other Colleges). It's just 234 more people.</p>

<p>So do you think that the acceptance rate, which is traditionally 20%-21%, for ED will decrease?</p>

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<p>Pretty simple answer. It’s doubtful that Columbia is inclined to increase their class size. They have a number in mind for ED admits that’s probably remained relatively constant for some time. So yeah: the acceptance rate will likely decrease. But by how much? My guess is: not a whole lot.</p>

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<p>yes, but the regular decision admit rate more so than ED i’m guessing. it’s pretty intuitive that the common app thing didn’t increase ED application volume too much, because the people that applied ED this year are all the ones that really want to go (the whole binding thing) and would have probably applied ED even when columbia was still on it’s own app.</p>

<p>still, they’ll still want to accept about the same number of people ED as they typically do, so naturally, with more applications for the same number of places the rate will go down. i think that the RD rate will drop quite significantly…maybe to around 7 or 8? especially considering that columbia’s supplement isn’t that time intensive at all, application volume will probably skyrocket. i hope i don’t get deferred…</p>

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<p>the answer is simple. Since the number of acceptees is fixed, if the total no. of apps increase, the admit rate decreases.</p>

<p>My belief is everyone’s application nos. are rising – therefore the Ivies’ admit rate will continue to decline.</p>

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<p>“i hope i don’t get deferred…”</p>

<p>Agreed. That would be torture.</p>

<p>I guess the real question would be “Would the rate for ED decrease a lot?”</p>

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<p>the other thing is that folks usually end up honing in on their ED school to apply to by march of their junior year (studies say), so this means that folks didn’t know about columbia going ed. in fact many folks that do not live on cc do not know columbia has gone ed, and others had no idea when they were applying to columbia college chicago, that it wasn’t columbia university. </p>

<p>so if you look at schools in year 2 of the commonapp switch they have huge jumps in early numbers.</p>

<p>there is also the reverse psychology of columbia going up in the rankings - folks may indeed be less inclined to apply thinking it will be too hard of an ivy to get into.</p>

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<p>“…and others had no idea when they were applying to columbia college chicago…”</p>

<p>That has got to be the funniest and saddest thing (at the same time) that I ever read before.</p>