<p>Good for Dartmouth, but it looks like its going to be a tough year...</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>oy vey...... 12% chance??!</p>
<p>Over 12,500 total apps - up 6% from last year's 11,733; 12% admit rate anticipated.</p>
<p>Dartmouth plans to accept around 1,700 students, while around 1,000 will be waitlisted. Between 20 and 30 students are typically accepted from the waiting list.</p>
<p>That's gotta-be scary for RD apps.</p>
<p>Also record minority applicants (Dartmouth is HUGE on building diversity) and the highest SAT scores ever...</p>
<p>Apparently,</p>
<p>SAT scores up 30 pts. over last 4 years.
Apps up 2422 over last 4 years.</p>
<p>SAT scores up 14 pts over last year
Apps up 881 over last year.</p>
<p>A lot of the numbers are up primarily because last year saw a decline in RD apps for the Class of 2008 relative to the Class of 2007. And ED apps actually declined by nearly 10% this year, although Dartmouth admitted a record number from the smaller pool.</p>
<p>And the claim (by a previous poster) that minority apps set a record is not true. Note that "African-American and multiracial applications were at 4-year highs" - meaning that no records were set, although some of the ground lost in recent years has been recovered.</p>
<p>With that out of the way,</p>
<p>Byerly,</p>
<p>Don't be a party pooper. over the last four years the #'s are up by approximately. 2422 applicants.
The ed #'s were down slightly from last year, but again up quite a bit over the last 4 years.</p>
<p>At least let everbody finish eating their cake and ice-cream before you insist on everyone leaving the table.</p>
<p>No matter how it's viewed, though, it doesn't make my stomach feel very good.</p>
<p>The numbers are impressive enough without making make claims that are false, exaggerated and historically incorrect. This has nothing to do with any other school, but with trends at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>That said, I expect the Daily Dartmouth to do a story tomorrow or the next day giving us a preliminary report on RD trends at the other Ivies.</p>
<p>Oh great. And I thought I had somewhat of a chance at Dartmouth. I hate the entire college application process. It just sucks. :(</p>
<p>I really want to get in... and now I hardly stand a chance. The world of college admissions just gets more ridiculous every year.</p>
<p>Usually I would end this post with "Go Big Green," but now it just doesn't seem to fit.</p>
<p>notice how tall the piles at the end are? the ones with last name like t-z, those are all asian last names!!! lol
i think i can make out my app, it's the one with yellow stick at the front, second row :)</p>
<p>i don't get this, "With just under 400 of the 1,070 spaces in the Class of 2009 already taken, competition will be stiff for the remaining spots." however, this article goes on to say :"Dartmouth plans to accept around 1,700 students"
could someone clarify this for me?</p>
<p>I wonder what do the yellow, purple and blue stickers mean?</p>
<p>newbyreborn, it's because of the yield rate
they probably expect somewhere around 60% (not an exact figure) to matriculate and fill the class, so they accept a larger volume</p>
<p>I hope I at least get waitlisted... and then thier yield turns out to be unexpectedly low, so I get taken off the waitlist. :o</p>
<p>That picture of the applications with the post-it notes is so overwhelming. If they divide the applications regionally, why do they bother putting them in alphabetical order? Maybe I'm confused.</p>
<p>That picture is so depressing. Just thinking of being compared to 12,500 applicants makes me nauseous and dizzy.</p>
<p>Newbyreborn, I took that to mean they will accept the higher number, knowing full well that not all those accepted will matriculate.</p>
<p>The school already knows that not all those who are accepted RD are coming to Hanover, but they still want to fill the class of about 1070. I think the only exception was the class of 05 which a large number of people did come (I heard somthing like 1400, Slipper, you were probably there during this time ) thus causing a major housing crunch., Some students were offered incentives to defer a year.</p>