Is Princeton now the most selective college in the world?

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<p>Check yours.</p>

<p>Yale
<a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=25563%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=25563&lt;/a>
The task for the Admissions Office is to end up with its target of **1,310 **students in the Class of 2008</p>

<p>Harvard
<a href="http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/0305/15-admissions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/0305/15-admissions.html&lt;/a>
Last year, 19,609 applied for the 1,650 places in the entering class.</p>

<p>So I actually undercut their class sizes.</p>

<p>I reiterate: Stop being ignorant.</p>

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<p>Alternatively, you could get the universities total undergraduate enrollment and divide by 4.</p>

<p>Harvard
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfomore.asp?listing=1022984&LTID=1&intbucketid=%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfomore.asp?listing=1022984&LTID=1&intbucketid=&lt;/a>
6649 / 4 = Class size of roughly 1662</p>

<p>Yale
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfomore.asp?listing=1023891&LTID=1&intbucketid=%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfomore.asp?listing=1023891&LTID=1&intbucketid=&lt;/a>
5,294 / 4 = Class size of roughly 1324</p>

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<p>but.... I think that pton could be the most selective big 3 because it has so few spots. If they would just increase their marketing a bit then I think they would easily catapult over Harvard and Yale</p>

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<p>Then why doesn't Harvard just start only offering 1000 spaces?</p>

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<p>Scwab:
From the School's sites:</p>

<p>Harvard: 22,717 apps/1,662 class size = 13.67 apps per slot</p>

<p>Princeton: 16,290 apps/1,158 (4,635/4)= 14.07 apps per slot</p>

<p>You were saying?</p>

<p>(actually earlier I had rounded P's class size up, but upon checking the P profile page, P is even more competive than I thought. also, ck my language in the post. I did not state the info. as fact, but intentionally used the word "appears".)</p>

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<p>whyd you leave out yale?</p>

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<p>Because Yale still wins.</p>

<p>19,430 Applicants / 1324 slots</p>

<p>=14.675 Applicants per seat</p>

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<p>I only checked H because it was quoted as the lead school.</p>

<p>Scwab, Am I getting an apology? (for your unwarranted attack on my initial quote?)</p>

<p>Please reread my initial quote. It contained no error. Infact I estimated on the conservative side.</p>

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<p>Not when it is wrong

I did no such thing.</p>

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<p>


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<p>I could care less about semantics. Your statement was WRONG.</p>

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<p>My numbers in my original quote were neither misleading nor quoted as fact.
Your numbers in your original response were misleading, wrong and quoted as fact?
Correct?</p>

<p>Be a man</p>

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<p>

Your statement is WRONG.</p>

<p>

Considering we are going by rough class estimates, and the fact that I had a margin of error of less than 2% for both Harvard and Yale...</p>

<p>I say there weren't any of those.</p>

<p>The fact stands that this year Yale will have the most applicants per seat.
Care to dispute that?</p>

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<p>Alphacdcd-Your attitude would be so much less disturbing if it weren't echoed by all the other Princeton students I know. Your mix of pompousness and insecurity is a rather horrible combination.</p>

<p>Schwaby-Thanks for doing the research to refute this kid's claims.</p>

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<p>I dont know if someone has said this, but an schools such as HYPSM could easily get 2% acceptance rate with a marketing scheme. For example, Harvard could accept the common app without a supplement. Then they could waive the application fee. Think about how many people would apply for the heck of it.</p>

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<p>I figured I'd toss in Columbia's numbers too, just for the hell of it.</p>

<p>1,339 (number of matriculants last year, the number of seats)
18,236 (number of applications reported for class of 2009)
= 13.62 applications per seat</p>

<p>The number of apps increased by about 6% over last year :eek:</p>

<p>Oh yeah...
And why the heck do we care about this stuff anyway? The numbers each year are just inflated by shotgun applicants that don't have a chance in the first place. So these numbers are meaningless and don't indicate what school has the highest-caliber students. They're all about equal at this highest level.</p>

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<p>'Alphacdcd-Your attitude would be so much less disturbing if it weren't echoed by all the other Princeton students I know. Your mix of pompousness and insecurity is a rather horrible combination.'</p>

<p>Amen - So true... exactly the impression i got from princeton's eating clubs.</p>

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<p>Until you are actually in an eating club, or even a student at Princeton, I really don't think you have a right to judge that.</p>

<p>I for one am very offended by that general stereotype when how much proof do you really have?</p>

<p>Yes, alpha has been really annoy recently spouting off Princeton stats and stuff like that, but you can't take him to be representative of all Princetonians. Do you assume that all Harvard students are just like Byerly? Hopefully not. They're aberrations, not the norm.</p>

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<p>just<em>forget</em>me
and
hopemanjkjk</p>

<p>I hope you do realize that I am a soon to be Princeton student =)</p>

<p>Alphacdcd is just misguided and would be better off keeping his mouth shut.
Don't let one bad apple spoil the bunch.</p>

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<p>Schwaby, "2 percent margin of error makes your numbers good!". You blasted me for my numbers and yours were wrong. Even your Yale guesstimate numbers are wrong. Yale's actual numbers are larger. Ck. the actual #s plus add the 90 or so "specialty undergrad students in the proifile"</p>

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<p>I never "blasted you" for your numbers.
Not once.</p>

<p>Are you reading my posts at all?</p>

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As for my numbers, I never called them good, and once again I remind you that we are going by ROUGH ESTIMATES. </p>

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Show me. FACTS please. Not just simple assertions.</p>

<p>What is with your narrow-minded zealotry of all things Princeton? It's actually almost turning me off from a school I love and plan on attending next year.</p>

<p>Your lack of grammar and spelling skills tells me that you couldn't have possibly graduated from Princeton. So why are you on CC basically giving Princeton a bad reputation?</p>