<p>I'm interested in the lowest admit rates around this year. I understand that many ivy's and other competitive schools send out decisions until April 1st, but post em when you find out.</p>
<p>Stanford this year hit its record low with 7.2% acceptance. Stanford</a> admission rate sets new record for competitiveness - San Jose Mercury News</p>
<p>Pomona is supposed to be quite low this year as well. I don't know the numbers tho</p>
<p>UChicago is low this year. The percentage hit the teens.</p>
<p>wow is 7.2% < Harvard’s (from last year)?</p>
<p>umm cooper union. hovers around 5% for i think the art or architecture school</p>
<p>Duke: 14.8% Overall (~13% RD)</p>
<p>From what I hear, UCLA’s acceptance rate plummeted from 21% last year to approx. 8% this year. I suppose this is what happens when they accept 4,500 out of an applicant pool of 57,000.</p>
<p>@yeefongyy
that is not at all correct, i think you’re mistaking the available spots at UCLA for the number they accepted.
Because that is as much as Harvard’s and i know for a fact that UCLA is not as Selective as Harvard</p>
<p>amherst 5% … i looked at the 2008 and it was 14% (not so sure about last year)</p>
<p>northwestern’s admit rate dropped from 27% to around 20-21%. not as low as the others you guys posted, but still a pretty significant drop.</p>
<p>The admit rate decline is nothing without the corresponding application rate increase. It’s just that everyone and their little brother is now applying to reams and reams of schools.</p>
<p>It’s not as if these colleges are admitting fewer students because the schools are shrinking – admit rates are dropping because kids routinely apply to 15 schools when years ago, they’d apply to 4.</p>
<p>Just a long thread about historic drops in admit rates – really what’s the utility of such a thing besides pointing out that apps are increasing?</p>
<p>Pomona’s admit rate was 14.7% this year - the lowest ever…</p>
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<p>I agree. If you are right that it isn’t more people applying to schools, but the same number of people applying to more schools, and I think you are, then I think we’ll see schools dip into their wait lists more this year. Good news for people who were wait listed.</p>
<p>[Campus</a> Overload - College acceptance rates down](<a href=“http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2010/04/college_acceptance_rates_down.html]Campus”>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2010/04/college_acceptance_rates_down.html)</p>
<p>this has a lot of drops
Harvard is at a record low at 6.9%</p>
<p>Brown was 9.3% if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt’s was 16.3% this year.</p>
<p>Did stanford pass yale to become second most selective this year? I thought I read that somewhere</p>
<p>Ivy League Acceptance Rates for 2010</p>
<p>Brown 9.3%
Columbia 9%
Cornell 18%
Dartmouth 11.5%
Harvard 6.9%
Penn 14.2%
Princeton 8.2%
Yale 7.5%</p>
<p>Hmm so Stanford’s 7.2 is lower than Yale’s 7.5. Interesting</p>
<p>These numbers are absolutely insane…</p>
<p>Community college, here I come! (but not really, because that would kind of suck)</p>
<p>I’m sure the rising number of apps is perplexing to the admissions offices as well - yield rates will likely fall at many schools, but accepting a higher percentage just based on guesswork runs the risk of too many matriculating students. So, I’d agree with the comment that there will be more waitlist activity this year as schools fine-tune their final numbers to fill their classes. I’m sure a few schools with binding Early Decision bumped those numbers up with one of the objectives being less uncertainty in the number of students who show up in the fall.</p>