Projected RD Acceptance Rate?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Does anyone know what the RD acceptance rate is going to be?</p>

<p>I saw on Harvard's The Crimson that their acceptance rate is going to be around 3% which is pretty frightening...</p>

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<p>I sincerely doubt Harvard’s will be that low. Their ED acceptance (18.2%) was close to what Columbia had last year and this year (19.5%) and Columbia had the lowest RD rate at 5.64% with Yale second at 5.65%. I would guess both Yale and Harvard will be around the 5-5.5% range. FYI, Yale’s ED rate was 14.48% last year and 15.68% this year. </p>

<p>Even if Harvard had 35,000 applicants like they did last year without EA (unlikely since they had 4,231 apply EA), there is still about 1358 spots (772 admitted EA) and that would mean almost a 4% acceptance.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/3/27/three-percent-admission-2016/[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/3/27/three-percent-admission-2016/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>During the SCEA round, 4324 applications were evaluated and 695 offers were made.</p>

<p>The total # of apps (RD + SCEA) was 28870. This, minus 4324 = 24546.</p>

<p>We know that Yale makes ~2000 offers each year. Thus they are aiming for 1305 admits from the RD round. 1305 / 24546 = 5.3% admit rate for RD.</p>

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<p>I still say Harvard’s won’t be that low but we will see shortly. If you read the article it mentions 4,245 EA applicants with 772 accepted. They also indicate there were 34,285 total applicants and with the deferrals and RD applicants the total is 32,967 remaining. By my math that means 1,318 applicants either accepted or rejected. We know 772 were accepted so you mean to tell me they only rejected 546 EA applicants of the 4,245? That would only be a 12.8% rejection rate and close to 69% deferrals. Seems hard to believe.</p>

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<p>Yale’s overall rate, assuming 2000 offers will be 6.9%</p>

<p>Sometimes they have gone 1950. If so, it will be 6.7%</p>

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<p>That’s a lot better than what I’ve been thinking. Still low, though.</p>

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<p>@Kdog044:
Believe it.
[Harvard</a> College Admits 18 Percent of Early Applicants | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/12/15/Admissions-Early-2016/]Harvard”>Harvard College Admits 18 Percent of Early Applicants | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

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<p>They’re so deferral-friendly. lol</p>

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<p>So it looks like it ended up at 4.8%. See my post on this thread.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1311958-class-2016-admission-rate-6-8-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1311958-class-2016-admission-rate-6-8-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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They just deferred so many so they can have the lowest RD rate. Compare it to Yale who had more apply and rejected 1,180 in SCEA, over double what Harvard rejected.</p>

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<p>^ face it, they’re both fudging - Stanford rejects around 80% who apply SCEA, and it does just fine. Compared to that, both H and Y seem to be going for an artificially lower RD admit rate. (Not that anyone outside of CC really pays attention to that figure.)</p>