<p>"you've been selected from over 27,000 applicants for one of only 2000 seats in the freshman class"</p>
<p>wut statistic number is this? Is this the total number of applicants for EA? or for the specific college or wut? im jw</p>
<p>i applied early action and to the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.</p>
<p>I'm guessing it's the total number of EA applicants. As much as Bing apps have gone up, I doubt there were THAT many people who applied to just one college.</p>
<p>That can't be the number of kids that applied EA. If so, that is crazy. It has to be the amt. of RD apps received at a certain point plus the EA apps. Anyways, congrats!</p>
<p>2000 seats as in early action seats?</p>
<p>and thank you!</p>
<p>No, I think target freshman class is 2000.....EA, RD etc.</p>
<p>that doesn't mean that 2000 were accepted.....</p>
<p>On collegeboard it says the freshman class (I guess last years) was 2,300. If their yield is about 25% (i think usually runs about this), then they will accept somewhere around 8,000 - 9,000 which is roughly a 30% acceptance rate. This % may go down if there are applicants that have yet to be counted. Last year's acceptance rate was 39%, so this year can easily be 10% lower.</p>
<p>Congratulations to those accepted! This is one tough year.</p>
<p>I think our freshman class this year is closer to 3,000, though they didn't expect it to be so many.</p>
<p>They probably finally decided to put a limit on the number of students they could accept because of the economy going bad and people being forced to seek public education rather than privates. 2000 seems pretty reasonable ... a lot of freshman in class of 2012 were put in forced triples, so I'd assume another reason would be because there just simply isn't enough room for more.</p>