<p>they had a 17% increase in applicant 2105<em>1.16 + 419</em>1.2 = 2944 applicants
and only filled 27% of the class ED (this was for CC but I assumed the same trend for seas) or gave admission to basically around 373 kids.</p>
<p>ED acceptance rate = 373/2944 = 12.7% down from 23.5%, I feel sorry for you kids, and congrats to all who made it, pretty ridiculous.</p>
<p>Looks like ED's free lunch is a thing of the past.</p>
<p>Hey Confidentialcoll -- Where did you get the stat that they accepted only 60% of the number they usually do......??? I did not see that anywhere.</p>
<p>The article says that they filled 27% of the Class of 2012 ED, not 2013. But I'm confused - I thought they filled 43% of Class of 2012 ED.. hm..</p>
<p>I read that article, but I'm pretty sure they meant 27% of the accepted applicants were CC and the other 16% were SEAS. This would essentially meant the ED acceptance rate was the same. Well columbia will post the admission stats in their site in 5 months anyway.</p>
<p>"Columbia continues to admit a significant portion of its student body from the early decision pool, including approximately 27% of CC's class of 2012, according to Columbia's web site."</p>
<p>Apart from the 2012, which is probably a typo, to be corrected as 2013, there is no ambiguity that 27% of CCs [Columbia college] class was admitted ED, whereas it was 43% for last year, from the admissions website. </p>
<p>Columbia probably is responding to criticism that in taking so many kids ED they are disadvantaging lower income kids. I think if they're smart they'll still take tons of deferred kids in the spring so that their yeild is high and acceptance rate is low, you just won't be able to tell that ED kids are being accepted RD.</p>
<p>But as we stand the ED acceptance rate is around 12-13%, unless someone can point to a true flaw in my calculations.</p>
<p>Maybe, but even if they meant to say "27% of CC's class of 2013 according to Columbia's web site", where does it say that on their website? As far as I know the Spectator is the first to even comment on ED numbers..</p>
<p>But good news to all who got deferred: Columbia's percentage of defferals increased significantly. Columbia is trying to raise their yield but they don't want to look like they are favoring middle-upper income families by admitting 43% of the class ED like last year - since most ED applicants are from middle-upper income families. Therefore, the percentage of deferred students should also greatly increase. This way Columbia increases their yield by admitting people who are more likely to accept (since they had been committed to ED) and they don't seem unfair for admitting a large chunk of the freshman class ED.</p>
<p>Back to the original thing about 27% of Class of 2013 being admitted ED - I thought about it and realized that can't possibly be true at this point because we won't even know how big the Class of 2013 will be until after RD. </p>
<p>So now I'm just confused by what that Spec article was referring to..</p>
<p>Eh, how many of those deferred kids that Columbia spurned this round are still going to harbor those warm fuzzy feelings when their acceptances from other Ivies come in later? It's a pretty big gamble. Hope it doesn't hurt the yield too much.</p>
<p>Dayummmmmm! Those numbers aren't pretty, but do they bode well for us RDers? Compared with past years, at least? I hope they do, haha! I'm petrified that my internship and legacy would've helped ED but will be meaningless RD in a year like this, I hope I'm wrong.</p>
<p>"Maybe, but even if they meant to say "27% of CC's class of 2013 according to Columbia's web site", where does it say that on their website? As far as I know the Spectator is the first to even comment on ED numbers.."</p>
<p>columbia's class size is the same(ish) every year, they admit people (and then off the waitlist) to get 1335-1350 kids total by the end of people accepting and rejecting their offers. 27% of those were admitted to columbia yesterday, in previous years it was 42-43%. the reason they know this is because ED is binding so everyone they admit matriculates.</p>
<p>So what does this mean for the people applying to Regular Decision. Is the accepted rate going to increase, decrease or stay the same? Another thing for the Class of 2012, Columbia says the 43% of Columbia College students were accepted by early decisions. But if you take the acceptances from both pools it doesn't make sense:
ED: Acceptance: 454
RD: 1205
Total: 1659
454/1659 = 27.3%.
Isn't 27.3 the amount of percentage that early decision makes up for the Class of 2012. Why does Columbia's website say 43%?
Am I wrong?</p>
<p>johnnytest, the Class of 2012 was, in the end, composed of 1024 kids. Since 454 of them were accepted ED, the percent of ED kids that made up the Class of 1012 was 454/1024 (=44.3%). You were looking at the number admitted; however, not all admits end up attending.</p>
<p>The article is poorly written, and is not saying that 27% of ~1025 students who will make up the CC class of 2013 were admitted through ED. </p>
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Columbia continues to admit a significant portion of its student body from the early decision pool, including approximately 27% of CC's class of 2012,
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<p>As people have already said, this 27% refers to the 454 students of the class of 2012 who were admitted out of 1659 total admitted. The article says that 27% of the (matriculated) class of 2012 were admitted through ED, but the truth is that 27% of the students **admitted<a href="not%20matriculated">/B</a> to CC's class of 2012 were admitted through ED. 43% of the (matriculated) class of 2012 were admitted through ED.</p>
<p>They have not yet released the number of people who were accepted through ED for the class of 2013, only that there was a 16% increase in applications, meaning that approximately 2440 students applied ED to CC for the class of 2013. We will have to wait to find out how many were accepted.</p>
<p>Haha yeah, Confidentialcollege, do you realize how many people Columbia would have to admit RD in order to fill the class? Their yield for RD is only about 30% if you factor in ED as a 100% yield and see that last year their overall yield was about 63%. That means they would have to accept about 2800 kids, right? That would bring the total to 3200/20000 = a 16% acceptance rate or so. No way would they be willing to sacrifice their "3rd most selective college" nonsense for helping poor people.</p>