<p>Harvard's overall acceptance rate usually hovers around 9-12%. Can you infer that for an individual, a boy or a girl, the actual acceptance rate is about half of the overall rate?
Every co-ed college would want to have a good balance between the number of men and women. So assuming Harvard's overall acceptance rate is 10% this year, can it be said that the acceptance rates of boys and girls is 4-6% each?</p>
<p>No. The rate for both girls and guys is around 10%.</p>
<p>mathematically, because half the applicant pool consists of boys and the other half of girls</p>
<p>Thanks. Anxiety you know.</p>
<p>Not a potential math major, eh, Andy?</p>
<p>But it may be accurate to assume that if the over acceptance rate is 9.1% and the acceptance rate among Early Action applicants is >20%, that the regular decision acceptance rate is well below 9%.</p>
<p>Not including that varying fraction of ostensible RD admits were actually deferred early admits, (who are often admitted at a higher rate), the "real" RD admit rates last year were roughly as follows:</p>
<p>Harvard: 5.5%
Yale: 6.7%
Princeton: 7.7%
Columbia: 8.3%
Brown: 11.8%
Dartmouth: 14.6%
Cornell: 24.1%</p>
<p>andy with a comment like that, most people can conclusively say that you will be rejected from harvard. not to be mean, but that is like 2nd grade math... good luck elsewhere.</p>
<p>Now, now .... be charitable, Yale Hopeful. Every class needs ancient Greek scholars, feminist studies majors and archeologists in addition to math and economics majors. Diversity .... DIVERSITY!!</p>
<p>Byerly, you are correct, and I don't mean to insult Andy. But, just in general, that thought is ridiculous and shows a very very apparent lack of basic math ability. And even Harvard feminist majors should have basic skills in math. It is a liberal arts college. Obviously, one doesn't need MIT math skills to go to Harvard. But how does one even do mutiplication and division when confused about sums and percentages?</p>
<p>Wow, I hate it when people say that "you are not smart enough to go harvard". I think it reveals a lack of confidence in themselves. I make stupid errors like that all the time, and I'm one of the top students in my class. Its likely that the next time you say that to someone, they will be smarter and have a better chance at HYPMS than you.</p>
<p>I still get incredibly confused by percentages, and I got a 780 on the MathIIC and a 5 in Calc AB. I'm just not used to dealing with them...maybe Andy posted before he could think through it properly.</p>
<p>yalehopeful, you need to calm down. Why make judgements of a person you've never met?</p>
<p>Don't stress too much over this yet, Andy. You won't find out for a while anyway. =)</p>
<p>And for everyone else, yes there was a math mistake. But we all make mistakes once in a while, so whatev.</p>
<p>Know this: making fun of somebody else's abilities won't make your chances any higher.</p>
<p>Careless error, don't be too harsh on the OP.. everyone makes them in some form or other, and i'm sure you wouldn't wanna be criticised (especially to the degree yalehopeful did) if it was you making the error.</p>
<p>... the question still is appropriate, since it is not necessarily true that the admit rate is precisely the same for males and females. At Harvard, as it happens, this is more or less true, as males and females apply in more or less equal numbers, are admitted in more or less equal numbers, and matriculate at roughly the same rate.</p>
<p>This is not true everywhere. At Brown this year, the applicants were 61% female and only 39% male, so that one can expect that males will be admitted at a somewhat higher rate than females in order to partially redress the gender imbalance.</p>
<p>The opposite is true at Princeton, where the applicant group is canted toward the male end of the spectrum (58% of ED applicants were male), or at - say - MIT or Caltech, where the applicant group is as heavily male - or greater - as it is female at Brown.</p>
<p>At MIT or Caltech, the admit rate for females is substantially higher - both because the schools strive for gender diversity in admissions, but because females are statistically less likely to enroll id admitted.</p>
<p>yalehopeful8, I am not at all angry with you coz that was indeed a stupid math error on my part. :o . I was very stressed out when I posted it. I'll be very careful from now on, thanks.</p>
<p>if you are a female applying to harvard as a bio major, does that have more advantage than male?</p>
<p>I would guess that it would definitely help Kyzan, though probably not as much as at MIT. It wouldn't exactly be a huge change in prospects - but I think (don't hold me to this) females are normally admitted to the hard sciences at top schools at about a 5-10ish% higher rate than guys, but bear in mind all science spots are very competitive - probably moreso than humanities.</p>