<p>U</a>. receives record number of applications | The Daily Pennsylvanian</p>
<p>Wheeeeeee!!</p>
<p>Here’s an article that pretty much summarizes all the trends this year for the top dozen or so schools:</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> Surge Beats Harvard as Applications Soar (Update2) - BusinessWeek](<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>This was a very strong year for Brown, Princeton, University of Chicago, and University of Pennsylvania. Duke and Northwestern also showed strong gains. </p>
<p>Interestingly, apps to Yale dipped, and Dartmouth and Cornell showed very small gains. Stanford now seems to top the country with 32,000 (!) applications received. </p>
<p>Columbia is the only top school that has not yet released their applications numbers.</p>
<p>Apps to Yale probably dipped because of that whole Anne Le murder thing…</p>
<p>Probably. BUT more importantly, penn had a HUGE and AMAZING jump- so now admite rate not more than 14% FOR SURE remembering the whole half class ed thing. Also yield will be higher than 2013 stat. :)</p>
<p>Interesting how 17% of the pool is internationals.</p>
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<li><p>32,000 applications at Stanford doesn’t come close to being tops in the country. Berkeley and UCLA should have gotten somewhere around 60,000 each. 32,000 may not even be enough to give Stanford the lowest admission rate. Based on past admissions, Harvard should still be lower.</p></li>
<li><p>Why should the additional number of applications Penn received – generally consistent with the additional number of applications all of its competitors received – mean that its yield will be higher than last year? I don’t know of any institution that says it is planning to accept fewer applicants this year because it thinks its yield will increase. If anything, because of ongoing money issues out there in economyland, I think they are all uncertain about maintaining their historical yields.</p></li>
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<p>I believe I read that UCLA has over 70,000 applicants this year. The UC system as a whole had a +2% uptick.</p>
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<p>IF (big "if) Penn ends up accepting (after all summer melt, waitlist activity, etc.) roughly the same number it accepted for the Class of 2013, the overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2014 will be about 15%.</p>
<p>@45 Percenter: yes I do completely agree with ur figures and suggestions, but don’t u think that the fact that penn has admitted 200 more ppl this year ed than last year ed will encourage them to admit fewer as 200 more spots are already assured for them and thus they wouldn’t have to risk admiting higher with an ‘uncertain yield’. I also think that the fact that penn over admitted alott last year will motivate them to admit slightly fewer this time around as they had to pay the sheraton a bomb. Also what I did hear from some of my frnds is that penn might try to admit a higher number of ed defers who would MOST likely pick them over other colleges due to their interest and passion shown via ed. This will help make the yield more certain and increase. Though I definitely don’t know as much abt this as u, I do believe that such factors might just lower the admit rate this time around. </p>
<p>@jhs: I am really sorry for the misunderstanding but I did not mean that an increase in total applications will increase the yield but rather that the increase in ed admits this year (which is a lot) would definitely increase the yield as more ppl are 100% gonna be at penn!</p>
<p>^ akki, where have you seen the ED acceptance number for the Class of 2014? To my knowledge, it hasn’t been published yet (although it should be within the next week or so).</p>
<p>When mr furda came to bbay he made an announcement where he said ‘for the batch of 2014, for the first time ever, we have selected more than half of the graduating class in the early decision program’</p>
<p>^ Well, as I said, we should get the hard number in the next several days.</p>
<p>For the Class of 2013, 1,156 were admitted ED. If we assume a target class size of 2,400, it would only take an additional 45 ED admits for more than half of the [target] class to be admitted ED. Of course, the actual size of the Class of 2013 was 2,501 freshmen:</p>
<p>[Penn:</a> Facts and Figures](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php]Penn:”>http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php)</p>
<p>So it’s really hard for even Furda to predict at this point the exact percentage of the matriculating Class of 2014 that will have been admitted ED.</p>
<p>JESHHHH! Why are you Penners all happy about so many applicants?? high yield maybe? But You guys must laugh at all of us poor seniors who have to compete with SO many more people which makes it harder to get in than when you guys applied.</p>
<p>JHS - sorry, I meant out of the top dozen or so schools, Stanford seems to lead the pack. I dunno if I’d put UCLA in that group (although Berkeley probably deserves mention). All the big publics, Berkeley, Penn State, etc. receive 60k+ applications. My original post was misleading - I only meant Stanford leads the pack for the top couple handfuls of schools.</p>
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<p>Once you’re on the other side of this you’ll understand ;)</p>
<p>I wish Penn had enough applicants to get into single digit admit rates. If you were a Penn alum, you’d wish the same!</p>
<p>I’m predicting a 14.4% acceptance rate. We’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>^ Should we start a pool and see who wins? Say 10 bucks a guess? :)</p>
<p>I’m going to have to go with 14.34439%. 14.4% is absurdly high.</p>
<p>Haha getting it to a tenth of a percentage point is sort of crazy. Looks like it’ll be somewhere between 13-15%. Very competitive year at Penn.</p>
<p>I’m still surprised Yale apps dipped - pretty much every other school saw at least some gains (Dartmouth, Cornell etc. with 4-5% increases). I dunno if crime has much to do with it - Penn didn’t have a great year on the crime prevention front either, but there was still an upswing…</p>
<p>Haha collegestress I completely understand! If I wouldn’t have gotten in ed I would have been feeling the same!</p>