<p>Any ideas?</p>
<p>I’m going to venture a guess that this years acceptance rate will sit at 9.5%</p>
<p>9.5% overall is possible
RD alone will be < 9</p>
<p>AHHHHH </p>
<p>feelings of inadequacy setting in…</p>
<p>like 7 % …</p>
<p>This is terrible. When I looked at acceptance rates and considered my chances based on last year’s statistics for a lot of schools, I felt like I had a good chance. Especially UChicago. 25% last year and about 12% this year.</p>
<p>Doubt it’ll be 7…that’s a bit low …this year i’m guessin will be 12 or so.</p>
<p>I’d say probably 11%…on estimate, only 1 in 10 or 11 out of 100 applicants will be admitted.</p>
<p>I think on an old thread, there was a link to Brown’s website where they projected that the admit rate would be 9%.</p>
<p>But that’s mostly due to the huge increase in apps this year.</p>
<p>Overall probably 11-12 but probably around 9 for RD.</p>
<p>With a 20.6% increase in applications the official 2010 Admit rate was a cool 9.3%</p>
<p>[Applications</a> to Selective Colleges Rise as Admission Rates Fall - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Applications to Selective Colleges Rise as Admission Rates Fall - The New York Times”>Applications to Selective Colleges Rise as Admission Rates Fall - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Bit better than expected. Not seven percent, anyway.</p>
<p>But if you do the math, taking out the early decision acceptances, the acceptance rate for regular decision comes to about 7.7 percent.</p>
<p>Wow I just realized how selective colleges are -_____- damnnn 7.7% for RD?!?! Goood luck</p>
<p>This is currently on Brown’s home page, if you hover on the Academic Life section:</p>
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<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>ACCEPTANCE RATE FROM AN ADMISSION OFFICER:</p>
<p>RD - 7.6%</p>
<p>RD + ED combined - 9.3%</p>
<p>^ 7.6%… Wow… That’s low</p>
<p>Any word on PLME acceptance rate?</p>
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<p>That implies 10-11 percent as the “true” (that is, controlled for Early Decision effects) RD rate comparable to Harvard (6.9%), Princeton (8.2%) and MIT(9.7%). This is because if all the ED candidates had applied RD, they would have yielded matriculants at well below 100 percent, and Brown would have had to admit more of them to reach the target class size. A reasonable assumption is that the ED-as-RD applicants would be projected by Brown to yield at somewhere below Harvard’s steady historical rate (75-78 percent) and above what Brown projected for the RD-only applicants (about 52 percent, based on last year’s class size). These lead to 10-11 percent as the range of the ED-adjusted admission rate. </p>
<p>At Brown as at all other schools, the admission figures are pure propaganda even after correcting for ED effects. Single-digit admission rates are a marketing fiction. Princeton, hilariously, reported its rate as “8.18 percent” to avoid rounding up to 8.2, Harvard is ignoring waitlist and the 50 students per year on the “Z-list” to report its rate as below 7 percent. Lumping US residents with internationals slims the numbers down a bit, as well.</p>
<p>That’s the fiction. Numerical reality is that the majority of applicants would never get in, their chances of admission are deterministically 0.00 percent. MIT inadvertently confirmed this officially about a decade ago (they ranked the applicant pool using their version of an Academic Index, and the bottom half had nobody admitted) and most other schools corroborate it in a fuzzier way when they say “we could admit a second qualified class” or maybe a third, but not a fourth or a fifth. Admissions competition is between fewer than 10000 students. Harvard’s rate is not 6.9 percent but more like 15-25 percent for the applicants who stand a chance, and zero for the others.</p>