<p>Why does JHU have such a high acceptance rate: 35%</p>
<p>Not many people apply?</p>
<p>it's a self selected pool of applicants... really only people who have good creditianls want to get in... so they don't get as many applicants that are just like what the hell were you thinking sending us this application.... </p>
<p>names like Harvard aren't really self selected... because everyone knows the name... and people are like well there's a shot in hell... so they just send them.... thus lower acceptance rates</p>
<p>Don't expect the JHU acceptance rate to be 35% for the coming year. The acceptance rate tends to be range between 25-30% over the last few years. Last year was a bit of anomaly, and it actually led to Hopkins overenrolling the freshman class. </p>
<p>The applicant pool has continued to grow each year, and this year they are expecting close to 12,000 apps. With the fact of overenrolling and a larger applicant pool, the acceptance rate will go back to where it has been, the high 20s%.</p>
<p>The ED acceptance rating will go down too, right?</p>
<p>Does the ED acceptance rate vary directly with the RD acceptance rate? I hope it doesn't go down -- just to make me feel better.</p>
<p>Unlike the overall acceptance rate which is estimated at the start of the review process (and this year should range from 25-30%), the ED acceptance rate is not pre-set. Since the ED applicant pool is quite small at Hopkins, less than 1000 applicants each year, the review of ED applicants is based on the merits of each individual case. Therefore the acceptance rates will fluctuate greatly depending on the strength of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>Typically, the applicant pool for ED is stronger when compared to the overall applicant pool so the acceptance rates resemble last year's rate of 50%. But if the pool is weaker that rate will drop, and has been as low as 30% in recent years. </p>
<p>Here is an old thread which may explain a bit more...
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=72317&page=2&pp=20%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=72317&page=2&pp=20</a></p>
<p>Collegeboard lists the number of ED applicants: 618 and ED acceptance: 362. That's about 59% acceptance. Is this not last years application pool?</p>
<p>Those Collegeboard numbers are from two years ago, the entering Fall 2003 Early Decision applicant pool. Not sure why they are not updated.</p>
<p>so you say about 50% gets accepted.....is that the rate of 50% accepted on December 15th? or does that 50% include the ppl who originally got deferred from ED then later accepted in Regular App pool? If not, how many deferred applicants usually get accepted?</p>
<p>I'm fairly positive that when they refer to ED acceptance rate, it's those acctually accepted early and not deferred then accepted.</p>
<p>The ED acceptance rate only includes students admitted early decision, not students deferred and late admitted. I could not find a specific statistic on number of deferred ED students admitted during regular decision, but I remember hearing it was close to 20%.</p>
<p>ohhh great!!....ok thanks!! =)</p>
<p>I would just like to point out, that if the accepted ED deferred acceptance hovers around 20% with the ED acceptance rate itself being 50%, then with a pool of 700 ED applicants 60% have a chance of admission whether it be in ED or it be in RD after they are deferred. Although my calculations arent taking into account people who are flat out rejected in the ED pool. I would imagine that number is marginable though.</p>