<p>Does it look like there are going to be a lot more applicants this year, and therefore a lower acceptance rate?</p>
<p>After being deferred and rejected from Chicago from what looks like its mainly because of the influx of applicants (my stats were roughly on par with the average accepted student in past years), I'm pretty anxious. </p>
<p>Thursday is going to be nervewracking</p>
<p>There was an increase of about 6%, so the RD admissions rate should drop by about 1%.</p>
<p>There were 31,500 applications this year. I am not sure about any past years.</p>
<p>On average, how many freshmen does the Pratt School of Engineering admit each year?</p>
<p>Last year, they accepted a total of 877, 337 of whom enrolled (124 ED).</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University Admissions: Class of 2015 Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2015profile.html]Duke”>http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2015profile.html)</p>
<p>Purpender, thanks for the stats. I am surprised Duke’s yield last year for A&S was well below 40%. Is it because they are often bridesmaids to Ivies and Stanford? Also, does this mean there is a better chance of getting in off the wait list at Duke?</p>
<p>The overall yield for A&S was 45% last year. This is above UChicago, Cal Tech, Wash U, Northwestern, Hopkins, but below all the Ivies. There a variety of complex factors that lead to the yield levels at all these schools, including competition from in-state publics, geographic preferences, ED admittances, etc. Having the two most popular state of Duke applicants being California and North Carolina probably hurt the yield a bit since UC-Berkeley, UCLA, and UNC are good low cost in-state alternatives. A school like Cornell in a huge state like New York doesn’t have the public competition from the SUNYs like Duke does with UNC. The SUNYs are not seen as nearly as good as UNC. In addition, the top four most applied to schools for Duke applicants are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford. When you have those as the most common four schools, you are going to lose a significant number of those battles.</p>
<p>Duke also doesn’t take demonstrated interest into account like a lot of schools (although ED helps). But a school like WashU actually considers how likely you are to attend based on if you’ve visited, how many times you’ve called, etc. Duke explicitly does NOT track that and wants to accept the most qualified applicants regardless of the likelihood to attend. But overall, I’d say Duke’s yield really isn’t that low and yield rate can be a misleading statistic and manipulated by schools as well. Looking at school preferences is probably more informative and Duke has routinely been below HYPSM, but wins about 1/2 the cross admit battles with Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, Columbia, and 75-90% of the cross admit battles with Cornell, Georgetown, and Northwestern.</p>
<p>[The</a> Chronicle | Duke University’s Daily Independent Newspaper](<a href=“http://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-still-step-below-top-schools]The”>http://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-still-step-below-top-schools)</p>