<p>Harvard acceptance rate…less than seven. Crazy…</p>
<p>Amherst’s acceptance rate wasn’t 5%. They accepted over 1000 students to fill a class of about 600 so assuming that people will not attend Amherst, they accept more than the target class size.</p>
<p>“Amherst received 8088 applications, up 5 percent from 2009. They accepted 1,226 students and waitlisted another 1,098. Their admit rate is 15.2 percent, down from 16 percent last year. The average combined SAT score of the accepted students is 2180”. </p>
<p>Not too terrible of a drop in admit rate.</p>
<p>Berkeley Regents Scholars invitations were extended to less than 1% of their applicants this year!!!</p>
<p>Chicago was 18%, 12% for RD</p>
<p>Brown and Columbia are right on Princeton’s heels… Princeton better watch out lest it suddenly find itself the 5th most selective Ivy. Brown and Columbia were both <8% for regular decision, but that gets brought up by accepting at close to 20% in the early decision round.</p>
<p>Any predictions for next year?</p>
<p>WashU in St. Louis is ~6% for RD this year</p>
<p>^A 6% decrease?</p>
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<p>I’ll suppose I’ll make some.</p>
<p>Harvard: The rate has been slightly but steadily decreasing over the last couple years. Then new policy of requiring only two Subject Test scores should increase the number of applicants, so I expect the rate to drop more than it otherwise would. Prediction: 6.6%, a drop of .3 percentage points.</p>
<p>Stanford: After falling sharply last year, Stanford’s rate fell again this year, though not as much. I expect the rate to begin to level off somewhat but still stay very low. Prediction: 7.1%, a drop of .1 percentage points.</p>
<p>Yale: I’m not sure why Yale’s rate did not fall with its peers this year. The decrease next year may compensate somewhat. Prediction: 7.3%, a drop of .2 percentage points.</p>
<p>Princeton: Princeton’s rate fell considerably this year, and it should fall again next year. Only people’s dislike for grade deflation will keep the rate above that of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. Prediction: 7.9%, a .3 percentage point drop.</p>
<p>here ye go children:</p>
<p>[2010</a> Admissions Tally - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010-admissions-tally/]2010”>http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010-admissions-tally/)</p>
<p>Emory is on that list, but Vanderbilt and Rice aren’t…</p>
<p>Have they not released numbers or what?</p>
<p>^There’s a lot of top schools not on the list yet. They probably haven’t released it yet</p>
<p>Caltech dropped to 12.4% from 15.4% according to the school paper.</p>
<p>do you believe that since people are applying to and being accepted by multiple schools that the waitlist will be used more to fill clasess?</p>
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<p>It all depends on how well schools’ expectations of their yields match the reality.</p>
<p>San Diego State University is at roughly 10% this year. 62,000 applications and only 6,100 spots available.</p>
<p>Some of the lower admission rates in California may also be due to our horrific budget crises. State schools are cutting admissions and this in turn sends more students looking to the private schools. Loyola was 50% two years ago. This year…12%. I for one am hoping you are right about wait list activity!</p>
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<p>That’s not how it works, the yield rate there is not very high. Same with Loyola.</p>
<p>The admit rate may be lower for UCs because a wait list has been implemented for the first time.</p>
<p>has to be BC-I heard 30k apps for 1900 freshmen slots??!!!</p>