<p>I propose we start leaving Ivy-transfer alone in general. It seems to me that s/he, although perhaps arrogant, doesn't deserve to be harassed in every thread. I didn't like his/her comments in certain threads either but it is possible that his/her comments were misunderstood.</p>
<p>Anyways, I did a little digging and found out that a similar thing happened at UChicago, they admitted 200 less than usual this year. Although yield is likely to go up, at least we know the freshman class isn't likely to be bigger than anticipated and hopefully they will accept the same amount or more than they did last year!</p>
<p>Anyways, let's hope we are right, good luck everyone(even ivy-transfer)!!!! :D</p>
<p>I hate to burst people's bubbles (including myself)</p>
<p>but Stanford matriculation rate is going to be EXCEPTIONALLY high this year, specifically because of Stanford's new financial aid policy (<100K/ year is almost free for parents now)</p>
<p>I think thats true too. However thats really just bad news waitlisted student. The number of admitted was a bit lower than previous years so they were very conservative this year, and likely predicted the high matriculation rate.</p>
<p>Hopefully they still have a few saved spots for transfers. As in more than 20. C'mon 60+. :p</p>
I hate to burst people's bubbles (including myself)</p>
<p>but Stanford matriculation rate is going to be EXCEPTIONALLY high this year, specifically because of Stanford's new financial aid policy (<100K/ year is almost free for parents now)
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<p>That's very possible, but it's only a guess, not a fact. There are other factors pushing down the matriculation rate, like Harvard's and Yale(was it Yale?) not giving early decisions.</p>
<p>How many well qualified people applied because of the policy? How many people who are in the affected income brackets would have otherwise declined an offer of admission but will now accept? We can guess at the answers, but there are any number of possibilites that are equally likely to our ignorance.</p>
<p>--Joe</p>
<p>PS: Sorry for being so cryptic, I've been staring at a computer for the last few hours working on a big project. (;</p>
<p>Thanks for that info asdfasdf1212, it's definitely good to know. However, I think there are some reasons to be optimistic that Stanford may at least enroll one or two dozen more transfers than last year</p>
<p>(1.) Princeton and Harvard did not have early admission this year. This means that a somewhat higher proportion of the admitted Stanford students have Princeton/Harvard as their first choice and will end up going there.</p>
<p>(2.) Stanford admitted 65 less students, so they could even have a slightly higher matriculation rate and still allow for more transfers</p>
<p>(3.) Last year was an exceptional year, usually the matriculation rate is lower. While this might suggest a trend that will continue, it might also mean that the matriculation rate will just be lower or the same after financial aid incentives are considered.</p>
<p>(4.) Harvard and Yale also massively increased their financial aid this year.</p>
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According to my interviewer, the number of admitted transfers is not at all contingent on freshman acceptance or matriculation. If the transfer pool is strong, they take more transfers; if it's weak, they take less.</p>
<p>Thanks Caillebotte, that's certainly interesting. If you don't mind PM'ing me your interviewers name I'd be interested to know if you had the same person as me.</p>
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<p>Not quite sure how to feel about that. Or what it means, really. Mine's in Canada and certainly not a high-classed college like Mcgill or U of T but we don't have community colleges up here.</p>
<p>Sorry for the late response, I just noticed your post. As far as I know you never did, and personally I feel you've been abused by some posters. I was trying to emphasize that because you didn't in this thread, you shouldn't be harrassed in this thread.</p>
<p>I'm a community college transfer applicant and very excited about hearing this! Does anyone know how many community college students applied last year? Any guesses? Also, I'm considering sending in a supplemental letter detailing a campus-wide book drive I'm organizing for the National Center for Family Literacy. Is this significant enough to merit a supplemental letter?</p>
<p>First off all they frown on supplements, period. Apparently every year they get kids sending in loads of stuff that don't change anything and are simply not read. Second of all, thats not exactly an amazing addition to your file.</p>
<p>You already have the boost of being from a community college (you sob :p) so I'd just leave it at that. But thats just me.</p>
<p>This is totally open to interpretation, but my guess is that Shaw is making it clear that your application is not going to get thrown out simply because you're a community college student in this year of tighter transfer admission.</p>
<p>Yeah, whereas some schools like Chicago for some reason very rarely accept CC transfers, and has said so a few times. I'm guessing the same kids that could get accepted to Stanford from a CC could get accepted to Chicago too though...</p>
<p>For financial aid, Stanford and Yale didn't announce their financial aid packages until AFTER applications were due. (mid-early January I believe.)</p>
<p>While this benefits many lower-income applicants that applied, a lot of the people who would have benefited wouldn't have known to apply because of this. So while the matriculation rates may increase, they're not going to jump as high as they probably will next year--when there's an even higher number of applicants as this year.</p>
<p>Sucks though, I got waitlisted from Harvard and Stanford. I'm hoping for a low matriculation rate as well. G'luck, all</p>