Err... did this strike anyone else?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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<p>Did anyone else find the stats cited in Wash U's Regular Decision acceptance letter a little strange? </p>

<p>If the university truly selected its "freshman class of approximately 1,350" from "more than 21,000 applicants," that would put its acceptance rate at approximately 6.5%... less than even Yale's, which is at 9! Incidentally, that would also make the entering class about 300 people fewer than usual, if I'm remembering those stats correctly.</p>

<p>I'd like to hear what you guys have to say about this. Think they're not counting Early Decision applicants, it's a typo, or what?</p>

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<p>The class probably is 1350, but they will accept two or three times as many students in order to fill it.</p>

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<p>they overaccept like crazy because they have a very low yield. i think they accept about 6-7000ish</p>

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<p>It isn't 6000 it is probably under 4000, at least that was what I heard from last year.</p>

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<p>I believe that laurenemma is correct, they accept a little under 4000, for an acceptance rate of about 18.5-19%. However, the acceptance rate for Early Decision is much higher, so the regular acceptance rate must be around 12% (or perhaps even less!)</p>

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<p>Yeah, last year they accepted more than 4,000.</p>

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<p>last year acceptance rate was 22/23% ish and accepted a little over 5000</p>

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<p>wow, 4000, and i still got waitlisted, ha, how low can one go?</p>