<p>So I was glancing over the numbers for ED admits for the class of 2014 and found that they admitted 631 out of 2995. Compare that to the Class of 2013's ED numbers of 594 of 2945 and the class of 2012's 597 of 2582.</p>
<p>The numbers seem to have gone up quite a bit for ED acceptance when compared to the last two years. I guess this means even less spots for RD applicants, right?</p>
<p>Well, they had more applicants, and there aren’t any ED quotas, so yeah that might mean less spots for RD but who really knows until April?</p>
<p>redoing this:
where did you get your stats? hernandezconsulting?</p>
<p>they don’t mesh with columbia’s own postings - <a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/stats.php[/url]”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/stats.php</a></p>
<p>and in fact i haven’t ever seen columbia release ED numbers.</p>
<p>From the Bwog:</p>
<p>"After yesterday’s celebratory sendoff, the Admissions Department put out stats for the early decision round of applications for CC/SEAS 2014. According to a statement from Admissions Director Jessica Marinaccio, applications for early decision increased by only 2%, to 2995; only 631 were accepted, for an admit rate of 21%.</p>
<p>As for geographical diversity, “the CC and SEAS class includes students from 41 states including Alabama, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, and South Carolina as well as some of our major market areas (New York metro area, California, Massachusetts, Florida, Maryland and Illinois).” Students from 25 other countries were also accepted, including “Bahrain, Belarus, Ethiopia, Greece, Jordan and Vietnam.” Our only request for the new Columbians: start suffering from senioritis as soon as you can acquire it."</p>
<p>i guess i’m scratching my head why columbia’s website says it admitted 639 early in 2013 on their website. but the board here last year and hernandezconsulting say they admitted only 595 ED last year.</p>
<p>They may have admitted more ED in anticipation of a lower yield in the regular decision pool.</p>
<p>karot, that wouldn’t be the case, columbia is very clear it wants more of its class to come from RD to ED. plus columbia has had its highest yield for seas ever last year, and combined the highest yield (significant considering that h and p no longer have ed).</p>
<p>my original post was speculating that since columbia expanded the class, in order to maintain the same ed/rd balance that the uni usually gets, it would increase the number of students it admits ed, but not the overall percentage of the final class (estimated at being around 1070). i unposted that because i was not sure if this is actually an increase from last year if columbia’s figures say it admitted 639 ED last year, this would be a decrease.</p>
<p>Ah, right. Sorry, was going off of zipper’s numbers.</p>
<p>The statistics released in Bwog’s post does agree with the ED stats on the Columbia website. For last year, Columbia had 2942 ED applicants and they increased to 2995 this year, or about 1.8%.</p>
<p>Remember, too, that last year Columbia intended to increase the size of the entering class by 50, and according to someone apparently in the know (admissionsgeek?), they actually enrolled more than that.</p>
<p>concoll said that, but i think concoll is not right here. if you look there is a difference between the opir (provost office) stats and what admissions puts on hits website. i believe that the provost office is not accounting for students that are deferring for a year, which would put the actual number of students somewhere around the new target class.</p>
<p>so i am still trying to figure out what the real numbers are before i put anything into my calculator.</p>
<p>“Our only request for the new Columbians: start suffering from senioritis as soon as you can acquire it.” </p>
<p>LMAO</p>
<p>My numbers were from hernandez consulting, just to clear up any possible confusion.</p>
<p>Size of the class this year is going to be around 1540.
Total Applicants increased ~4%</p>
<p>A class of 1,540 would be a sizeable increase over last year’s class of 1,391. Does the 1,540 number include students who elect to defer for a year? Why the big jump?</p>
<p>Sorry, that’s an incorrect number, please disregard. Size of this class is going to be about the same as last years.</p>