High Acceptance Rate for Caltech?

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>lizzardfire, please cite your source (web link).</p>

<p>I found another one [url=<a href="http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_tentoughestschools/the_most_competitive_admissions.html%5Dhere%5B/url"&gt;http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_tentoughestschools/the_most_competitive_admissions.html]here[/url&lt;/a&gt;] from Princeton Review; hardest to get into:</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Olin College</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>U Penn</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>

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<p>Is Olin College that good? What's the acceptance rate for Olin College (I could not find this figure online)?</p>

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<p>I should say that ranking by percentage admit rates is kind of ridiculous. If one pool has 150% the SAT average and grades of another, the same acceptance rate means nowhere near the same thing.</p>

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<p>MIT2010, I will say again, it is in the 2006 edition of the 2006 US News College Reports. Unless you own the book or have a paid login you cannot see it.</p>

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<p>DUKE is not stayin at 19, they have taken a TONS off the waitlist, their's wil certaintly rise</p>

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<p>ben have you gotten the figures for this year? How many were taken off the waitlist this year (or at lease thus far?)</p>

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<p>According to the latest news section on the admissions site, 506 were initially accepted out of 3319, which is a 15.2 percent acceptance rate. If you factor in waitlisted acceptees, and figure about 50 people were taken from the waitlist (which seems reasonable this year), that brings the rate up to 16.8. Certainly, I would think the max rate would be 20 percent (like last year), which would imply about 150 were accepted from the waitlist. </p>

<p>Of course, acceptance rates don't mean a damn thing, but just for the sake of analyzing...</p>

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<p>Realize that the school is also significantly smaller than any other "big name" university. Our 15% is 500 students whereas 15% for a school like Harvard would be around 2000-3000.</p>

<p>However, I did not prior to this realize how small the applicant pool was.</p>

<p>Re: Olin...the entering class is even SMALLER than ours: their class size size is ~75.</p>