Princeton RD 2020 thread

Accepted: Lehigh (IBE Honors Program), Lafayette, Bucknell, Stevens Institute of Technology
Waitlisted: None
Rejected: None
Deferred: Princeton (SCEA)
Waiting: Princeton, Cornell

This is going to be the most nerve-wracking day and a half.

Accepted: Georgia Tech, UIUC, Purdue, Northeastern, UC Davis, UCLA, Umich
Waitlisted: Stanford, Carnegie Mellon
Rejected: MIT, Caltech
Waiting: Princeton, Cornell, Harvard

One can only hope.

@Starior Also rejected by those schools…

Accepted: UCLA
Rejected: MIT, Caltech, UC Berkeley
Still waiting on: Princeton & Columbia

(I’m an international from Australia)

International here.
Accepted: Caltech, UCB, UCLA
Waitlisted: Harvey Mudd
Rejected: MIT

Princeton is the only school I’m waiting for now… Though I know I don’t have much chance…

From the Princeton Alumni Weekly:

Princeton received a record 29,313 applications for the Class of 2020, up 7.4 percent from last year. In December the University admitted 785 students through its early-action program, accepting more women (51 percent of those admitted) than men for the first time.

Accepted: Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Safeties all with merit
Waitlisted: Vandy, Chicago
Rejected: Stanford

Waiting: HYP, Columbia, Dart, Cornell, NYU Stern

That means that the Princeton RD rate will be under 2% LOLOLOL

Princeton’s RD acceptance rate will be 3.94%. (1908-785)/(29313-785) Could be worse, but my goodness. Harvard’s RD acceptance rate using the same formula (1990-918)/(39044-918) is 2.81%

By the way the formula is the number of people admitted total last year minus the number accepted EA this year divided by the total applicant pool minus those already accepted.

I thought the class size was 1300. I apologizw

This is why I say to already begin planning for schools aside from the Ivy Leagues.
Rejection is inbound for most of us. Why worry?

Did you calculate and does it correlate to Stanford RD rate?

It’s definitely not 2-3% - you have to account for yield. They accept more people than there is space in the class. Acceptance rate should be higher than Stanford’s :stuck_out_tongue: My bet is 6-7%.

You are assuming a 100% acceptance rate for EA. I think the proper math would be (1908-785)/(29313 - the number of Apps received for EA).

Stanford’s RD acceptance rate is less than its overall rate - probably around 3%

I agree with @Anonymoose3 . The acceptance rate is definitely higher than Stanford

@IfnousWHO Yeah Stanford is 3.04%. So higher than Harvard slightly and less than Princeton.
@TheWaffleMan149 You are good haha. I do math when I am nervous to get an idea of the odds.

The number I used from the early action decision making were those who were accepted from EA not all EA applicants. I do get what you are saying by the admissions rate will be slightly higher to compensate for the yield that accepts the offers but yeah. It is a baseline.

Tomorrow is the big day! :slight_smile:

I will celebrate no matter what happens tomorrow! I will have closure and now the important stuff happens… time to focus on which college to attend! Good luck to everyone!!!

Traditionally, I think Princeton’s effective RD acceptance rate is 4+%. You can’t really predict this year’s, however. A better formula might be: (Total Number Accepted RD - Total Number Accepted Early) / (Total Applicants - Total Number Accepted Early - Total Number Rejected Early). If that is correct, the Class of 2019 had an effective RD acceptance rate of 4.2% (1908 - 767) / (27920 - 767 - 165). Using that method, I think Stanford’s RD rate this year was 3.6%. I leave it to math experts whether this is correct or not.

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