<p>15,484 candidates are competing for some 600 spots.</p>
<p>wow... </p>
<p>.</p>
<p>Fortunately, P has announced it will be expanding its class size in each of the next 3 yrs.</p>
<p>I know a kid that was excepted off the early exceptance thing, after seeing that only 600 spots were available I see him as a whole new person.. Wow</p>
<p>:| <em>gulp</em> WOW!!!!!
thankfully Princeton is not one of the colleges im looking into because they dont have a medical school
<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>If 593 students were offered ED acceptances, and ED is mandatory, and they expect the ED candidates to comprise 49% of the incoming freshman class, wouldn't that mean the class should be about 1200 students, not 600?</p>
<p>Hmm...two seniors from my school got in Princeton ED. </p>
<p>Two also got into MIT ED, and I think a bunch of people got into Cornell, columbia, and others.</p>
<p>Princeton today released revised figures. The applicant count is up 19%.</p>
<p>Based on its class size, is it now the most selective college in the world?</p>
<p>Hey I wanna be a doctor too! Heart surgery.</p>
<p>Boysmom, you are correct, the P class size is just under 1200. But 593 have already been accepth thru ED. That leaves another 600 to be accepted. The school received 16,299 apps. When you subtract the apps of those that have been already accepted (the 593), that leaves 15,700 outstanding apps (the RD apps plus the deferred apps of the ED pool).</p>
<p>Apparently IIT in India is the world's most selective school with slots available being 2% of total apps.</p>
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<p>I don't agree. It apparently has the most applicants and the lowest admit rate. That, however, does not equal being the most selective. If 2 billion cocker spaniels applied to Harvard, would that make it the most selective school since presumably it would turn most of them down?</p>
<p>yes, because those cocker spaniels were smart enough to get into harvard</p>
<p>Princeton is also up from a BIG down year last year. Overall its up 4% (over its previous high). Harvard is up almost 15% over its previous high. Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown are all 5-7% over record highs.</p>
<p>Just keeping things in check, Princeton rocks.</p>
<p>Won't Princeton accept more than 600 expecting that some people will decline the admission offer?</p>
<p>Yes. Alpha neglects that fact often, I'm afraid.</p>
<p>this isn't a yield discussion as much as some of you would like to turn it into one. The bottom line is that for FOR EACH SLOT Princeton has, it receives more applications than any other school in the country (I believe this is consistent with the Princeton Review, Atlantic Monthly and US News reviews).
What's really amazing is that unlike its peers (H&Y) princeton has accomplished this without a coordinated marketing effort. The school is now discussing whether it should match its peer schools in marketing (partly because P wants to expand enrollment slightly).
These discussions were commenced before the app counts for class 2009 were in. One can only wonder where the app count will go with an effective marketing campaign.</p>
<p>Princeton's attractiveness, besides academics, is that among the ivy's:</p>
<ol>
<li>It is the most safe (least crime).</li>
<li>Largest endowment per student (they can afford resources)</li>
<li>Only Ivy named in Templeton survey (top 35 schools displaying<br>
the highest degree of honesty and integrity.</li>
</ol>
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<p>So what exactly do you think that proves?</p>
<p><<one can="" only="" wonder="" where="" the="" app="" count="" will="" go="" with="" an="" effective="" marketing="" campaign.="">></one></p>
<p>I don't know but I do know that if you market a product, it's sort of ethical to provide the consumer with a fair shot at attaining it.</p>
<p>Finally you got something part right ctnjpamom. We are now back at the beginning. The market is about SUPPLY (600 slots at P) and DEMAND (15,700+ wanting them). Pretty simple eh!</p>
<p>Whether or not Princeton needs to shove unsolicited marketing materials in the face of high schoolers, as its competitors do, is a question for debate (and that is what CC is all about)!</p>