<p>For last year 36% of applicants were accepted, I believe. I'm wondering what the percentage was this year. I believe it to have gotten more selective, but that is merely conjecture. Can anyone give any credence to this?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/george-washington-university/684072-gw-2009-admissions-numbers-stable.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/george-washington-university/684072-gw-2009-admissions-numbers-stable.html</a> 
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<p>At least according to this article, both the number of applicants and the percentage of accepted students remained steady (37%). GW still could have become more selective this year, though, if average GPA/SAT/whatever of applicants went up. I don’t think any of this can be set, though, until the class size etc is set in May/June.</p>
<p>12.3% is from the admission letter</p>
<p>^ 12.3% is probably just the admission rate for RD applicants, or at least that’s what I’d conjecture. </p>
<p>The 37% is probably from RD+ED… which actually makes sense, since the ED rate, ~60% (I think that’s the rate? Someone correct me if I’m wrong) + 12% divided by two is 36%, around the overall admit rate :)</p>
<p>12.3% is actually the yield of applicants. x applied for z spots, rather than x applied and y were admitted for z spots.</p>
<p>I think I read on the ED discussion that acceptance rate this year dropped to around 50%. Not surprising considering GW had a 43% increase in ED apps last fall.</p>