Princeton admits 9.5 percent to the Class of 2011

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<p>7.2% Acceptance Rate RD. WOOT!</p>

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<p>Sorry Columbia College was lower with more applicants And fewer admits ;)</p>

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<p>Princeton includes Engineering in its numbers, as does Dartmouth. Columbia doesn't. Do you have the consolidated numbers?</p>

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<p>Well congrats to Columbia too!
Seriously, 7.2% is comforting. For those accepted, it's awesome that were one of the 7 in each 100 people that applied (well, sort of). For those rejected, it may be somewhat reassuring to know that the odds weren't in anybody's favor.</p>

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<p>When Columbia includes its engineering school students, the admission rate is still a very impressive 10.4% I believe? (I seem to remember having seen this on another board.) </p>

<p>I have mixed feelings about these very low admission rates. Schools (and some alumni) tend to be very proud of the exclusivity but it seems to me that it simply represents a lot of hearts being broken. One of the reasons Princeton is gradually increasing the size of its classes is to be able to break fewer of these 'hearts'.</p>

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<p>Yea I hate it when schools brag about record breaking low admissions rate--- and look at Yale and their 10% app drop. It definitely backfired on them.</p>

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<p>acceptance rate to columbia engineering is about 18.1% if i'm not wrong</p>

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<p>18.1% Fu
8.9% Columbia College
10.4% total
21,103 applicants</p>

<p>Honestly though... they should be split apart in rankings--- not pretend Fu doesnt exist, but make it a seperate school for ranking purposes. The reason I think that justifies this is that both schools have different admissions criteria and are for all essential purposes two different admissions committees.</p>

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<p>That's true...but Penn has separate applications for Wharton and their engineering program too, so after a certain point you just have to lump everything together (that's why there's one percentage instead of a state-by-state breakdown, etc..)</p>

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<p>truanzn, on the princeton forums, usually princeton students, alumni, accepted students and their parents are taking pride in their school and their accomplishments. Generally, we are a group of nice people who typically don't go onto other college forums to put those schools down or compete in other ways. Rejoice in your ED acceptance to Columbia and the fact that you don't have to worry about tuition. You are very fortunate. You are going to a great school and have a right to be proud of that, as we are in the princeton forums.</p>

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<p>^Is there something I'm missing here? What did truasz say that was offensive?</p>

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<p>not offensive, but critical:

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Yea I hate it when schools brag about record breaking low admissions rate--- and look at Yale and their 10% app drop. It definitely backfired on them.

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<p>omg, I was in that 7.2%? That's insane! I'm so lucky XD</p>

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<p>I am in sympathy with post #6.
Reading the application results threads of the top schools is like watching a car wreck. There are so many people who seemed like they did everything humanly possible and still couldn't get accepted.</p>