<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>