<p>What year are the stats from Collegeboard from? Class of 2012? :P (wishful thinking? haha)</p>
<p>e.g. acceptance rate, student body (men/women, ethnicity, etc.)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>huh. that dumb of a question? o_O</p>
<p>2007....................................</p>
<p>Not a dumb question at all - a very good question. I looked and looked at CollegeBoard website to see if they state what year the data reflects, and couldn't find anything. I looked specifically at the university my D is attending, and because I am familiar with their current information, I can see that The CollegeBoard data is at least two years old.</p>
<p>It seems you can use The CollegeBoard search features to get a ballpark idea of recent (but not most current) data you need and ideas of which schools interest you, then go to the specific college or university website to get more up-to-date information.</p>
<p>thanks!! :)</p>
<p>barrons - as in, class of 07 or class or 2011? o_O</p>
<p>Definitely not a dumb question. I haven't looked at the CB site recently but Princeton Review is definitely a year behind - their recently updated stats are for the class that graduated from HS and entered college in 2007.</p>
<p>I think you really have to dig for each college's Spring 2008 acceptance rates - on their website, in their press releases, etc. I don't think there is a central source of this information. </p>
<p>And I understand why you want to know - the rate at one of my D's schools dropped 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2008 with a corresponding increase in avg GPA, enough change to move it from her safety list to match. Sometimes it feels like shooting at a moving target :(</p>
<p>^ Same here, PRJ - when D started looking at schools Fall 2007, much of the available information was from the 2005 entering class, and the 2008 statistics turned out to be considerably higher.</p>
<p>We are assuming this year will be even tougher than last year, and categorizing schools as safety/match/reach accordingly.</p>
<p>I don't monitor those sites too closely, but there have been many times when I've seen out of date information on college search sites like CB, Princeton Review, etc. I wonder how many of them say UVa still has early decision (which we did away with a year ago).</p>
<p>All the publications get their data from the Common Data Set which colleges usually release several months after the class starts. So Fall 2007 entering data is the most current. Fall 2008 will become available starting in early to midyear 2009.</p>
<p>Many of these groups send a separate survey, specific to their publication. These usually go to assessment offices, not admission or student life. When I was at another school, our stats would dead on, but the list of popular student activities would include events that didn't even exist anymore.</p>
<p>Princeton Review is so far behind its hideous. Its more than one year behind because I know for a fact at the school my D attends they are using stats from 05 STILL...and I pointed it out to them and some editor at PR got snippy with me and then denied my claim....but its fact. PR is a waste of your time.</p>
<p>Barrons uses 07 in the NEW 09 Edition of Barrons.</p>
<p>I imagine college board uses 07.</p>
<p>IPEDS is the official data at Dept. of Education and I think that is 07 data.</p>
<p>thanks all! :)</p>
<p>Each school year the colleges officially count their new freshman class AFTER the school year begins. (One college admission officer told me last week that his college counts on the tenth day of class in the new school year, which I think is industry-standard practice.) Sometime around the turn of the calendar year (that is, in January during the school year) a college's figures for that freshman class begin to be posted on the College Board website. So what you see today (August 2008) on the College Board descriptions of colleges is mostly information about the entering freshman class that entered in fall 2007 (that is, new college students from high school class of 2007), and that is the MOST RECENT information you have to go on as you apply for colleges yourself in fall of 2008, as a member of high school class of 2009. It is always like this--there is always a built-in lag between the year you can look up and the year you are living in as a student.</p>
<p>I see, thanks!!</p>