<p>Interesting trends despite a lower admission rate with last year's admissions! Seems like the trend was for more diversity in compensation for some selectivity.</p>
<p>Overall acceptance rate: 13.6%
Average SAT: 2050-2330
Average ACT: 31-34
% in Top 10: 90
% Valedictorian: 20.5
Ethnic Background: 39.8% non-white
Posse+Questbridge (low income): 40 students
International: 7.6%
Out of State: 67.1%
First Gen: 17%
Languages spoken outside of English at home: 13%
% interested in humanities/arts/social sciences: 40%
% interested in science/math: 37.3%
% interested in interdisciplinary: 5.7%
% interested in pre-professional: 11.7%</p>
<p>Overall acceptance rate: 12.8%
Average SAT: 2030-2300
Average ACT: 29-34
% in Top 10: 91.3
% Valedictorian: 19.1
Ethnic Background: 59.4% students of colors/international
Posse+Questbridge (low income): 53
International: 10.5%
Out of State: 65.6%
First Gen: 14%
Languages spoken outside of English at home: 32%
% interested in humanities/arts/social sciences: 36.2%
% interested in science/math: 36%
% interested in interdisciplinary: 10.6%
% interested in pre-professional: 13.6%</p>
<p>Well you can decide that of course… if you don’t fit the profile somewhat, then no I wouldn’t apply - but if you’re in the ballpark then if she feels it’s the right school for her I’d certainly say yes.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how much the class profile really changed vs. how they changed their reporting of the class profile. For example, international wasn’t a separate ethnic category in 2015. Also, the numbers of african-american and hispanic seem to have stayed almost exactly the same.</p>
<p>In addition to creating an “International” category (9.5 %), they added a “Two or more races” category (8.3 %) that did not appear in the previous year’s data. That makes me think the Asian population did not actually drop by 7.1 % of the whole as a superficial glimpse at the data would indicate (20.1 to 13.0).</p>
<p>The class this year is definitely a lot more diverse than the ones before.</p>
<p>The % for hispanics is correct, but the % for Asians and blacks are not entirely correct based on the raw numbers given. For internationals, the majority of the 38 or so are Asians, about 25 of them. That’s another 6.5% to add to the Asian category. For multiple races, that’s about half of them, or another 4%. So the actual Asian % is more like 23%. For blacks, there are a few internationals (5 of them) as well as several that are mixed black/white or black/hispanic- at least 10 of them. That’s 4% more black students making the actual % 10 percent. For native Americans, there are about 5 students who are mixed with something else, for example asian/native american, so the actual percentage is 1.7%. </p>
<p>They list the figure as 43% of the class, but the Asian percent is smaller because many choose not to describe that in their application and the hispanic percent is smaller. Also native american percent isn’t included.</p>
<p>They note in section C21 that Posse & Questbridge “binding early candidates” are included in the 150 ED acceptees.</p>
<p>From section B2, share of freshman nonresident aliens, Hispanic, Black/African American, Asian, and “two or more races” all up, “race unknown” & White down.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, I did a quick search for '12-'13 CDS’s for top LACs and Uni’s…Pomona appears to be the first to post this season. I suspect the data-savvy new Dean, Seth Allen, had something to do with Pomona’s relatively early CDS posting. [IMHO, transparency is good, timely transparency is better.]</p>