<p>Please rank the following from hardest to easiest to get into:</p>
<p>-CORNELL
-JOHNS HOPKINS
-CARNEGIE MELLON
-DUKE
-CLAREMONT MCKENNA</p>
<li>?</li>
<li>?</li>
<li>?</li>
<li>?</li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Duke
Cornell
JHU
CMC</p>
<p>According to the most recently published USNWR stats, their acceptance rates are:</p>
<p>22% Claremont McK
23% Duke
25% Cornell
27% Johns Hopkins
34% Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>thanks a lot!</p>
<p>can anyone rank them in hardest to easiest (%s would be nice) to get into when applying ED?</p>
<p>dukiess: The acceptance rate for Hopkins for the current class is 24%. The above data is one year old. The best way to get accurate numbers is to visit the websites, or to call the admissions offices. For those other schools that you listed, that is the best way to get correct and current information.</p>
<p>i'm not too knowledgeable on the "current" usnews acceptance rate stats, but cornell has an acceptance rate of 20.5% for the class of 2011!</p>
<p>Acceptance rate isn't a particularly good way of telling how hard it is to get in. For example, Pepperdine has an acceptance rate of 27%, while Chicago has an acceptance rate of 40%, but Pepperdine's average SAT is 1230, while Chicago's is 1435.</p>
<p>Difficulty to gain acceptance:
-DUKE
-CORNELL
-JOHNS HOPKINS
-CARNEGIE MELLON/ CLAREMONT MCKENNA</p>
<p>Acceptance rates are not completely correlated with acceptance difficulty. Other factors, such as self-selection and %ED admits, often come into play.</p>
<p>BTW, the USN&WR figures are one year old. For example, Carnegie Mellon's overall acceptance rate for the class of 2011 actually fell to 28 %, with acceptance rates below 14 % at the Tepper School of Business and below 20 % at the School of Computer Science (source: Carnegie Mellon admissions).</p>
<p>Based on admit rates for 2011 (most recent class out).</p>
<ol>
<li>Claremont Mckenna (16.1%)--you really can't consider this due to its SMALL undergrad population, at like 1000 total!</li>
<li>Cornell (20.5%)</li>
<li>Duke (21%)</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins (24%)</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon (28%)</li>
</ol>
<p>Looking at admission rates for men & women (fall 2006):</p>
<p>Men
23.1% Claremont McKenna
24.3% Cornell
24.8% Duke
28.4% Johns Hopkins
31.7% Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Women
22.1% Claremont McKenna
22.7% Duke
25.1% Cornell
28.7% Johns Hopkins
37.5% Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>STANDREWS: These numbers are outdated. The acceptance rate, overall, for Hopkins, is 24%. Your numbers seem to be about 2 years old, at least regarding Hopkins.</p>
<p>Acceptance rates are meaningless unless you know the qualifications of the applicant pool. This is particularly true since the common app has made it very easy for applicants to take a shot at multiple reaches based on perceived status.</p>
<p>gabriellaah,</p>
<p>The numbers are from IPEDS. They are for the freshman class entering fall 2006. I don't know of more recent data that breaks down admissions by gender. I would recommend that prospective students check out admission rates by gender, since the disparities are sometimes significant.</p>
<p>I agree that those numbers are at least two years outdated. Duke's admit rate for the Class of 2011 was 19.7%, slightly down from 19.5% the year before.</p>
<p>If you have stats for THOSE elite schools....why not apply to a school that is not in the "elite/prestige" ....i.e. top 20 and see what happens....you might be offered a HUGE scholarship. People assume if they have high stats that they HAVE to apply/attend an elite college for "prestige" reasons. Not so. You may be a lot happier at a lower ranked school with a full ride.</p>
<p>I see it all the time.</p>
<p>Lots of people transfer OUT of the elites after one year because it was not a good fit....too stressful, not the right culture for them, etc......</p>
<p>Think outside the box.</p>