<p>Good luck. <a href="http://yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=31539%5B/url%5D">http://yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=31539</a></p>
<p>This means there were 16,819 RD apps.</p>
<p>**** .</p>
<p>If 70% of applicants are looking for financial aid and 43% of freshman received need based aid last year (Princeton Review), does this not illustrate a decided advantage for "full pay" apllicants? Any suggestions on how you would calculate this?
13,615/808 = 5.9%
5835/1072 = 18.4% ????</p>
<p>First of all, admission is NEED BLIND.<br>
Second, those numbers should change this year with the new financial aid program
Third, good luck to all who apply ;)</p>
<p>OMG these numbers are huge</p>
<p>I'll say. These numbers are mind-boggling.</p>
<p>According to the article Yale's expecting the RD acceptance rate to be 6.8%. Just thinking about that makes me dizzy.</p>
<p>The article also says that because of Yale's new financial aid plan the admissions committee is going to be looking extra hard at students from low-income families/areas. Anyone think they can extrapolate on just what exactly that means, because I'd be in that category?</p>
<p>oh dear lord. Why was I born in 1988? Why?</p>
<p>The other reason for the discrepancy between the numbers who apply for financial aid and those who actually receive in the accepted class is that a lot of people don't qualify, but apply anyways. I know a lot of people who were borderline for receiving financial aid that applied just in case they might get it.</p>
<p>Many schools proclaiming their "need blind" policies are, as a practical matter, only able to maintain such policies because a disproportionately small fraction of potential students in the lowest economic quartile bother to submit an application and gain admission.</p>
<p>Without meaning to single Yale out, it is interesting that the 2004 numbers reported by USNews have 50% of Harvard and Princeton students receiving need-based grants, but only 42% of Yale students. Yet all three are "need-blind" in admissions.</p>
<p>If the top schools which now claim to be actively pursuing "economically disadvantaged" students and urging them to apply succeed, it will be interesting to see how they find the money to pay for the effort. Its pretty obvious that <em>every</em> self-proclaimed "need-blind" school could NOT subsidize such a recruiting effort - particularly if it showed signs of succeeding!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.williams.edu/wpehe/DPs/DP-69.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.williams.edu/wpehe/DPs/DP-69.pdf</a></p>
<p>As you are talking about need based grants, do you think the difference could have been due to differences in the financial aid policies of the schools. Now that Yale has renovated its financial aid policies to match its peers, do you think the number of those qualifiying for GRANTS (not necessarily all financial aid) will increase at Yale?</p>
<p>i think I can fully forgive Yale for making us wait until April to get an answer. I mean, GOODNESS!, that is a hug nmber of apps to read and sort through.</p>
<p>6.8 percent..........</p>
<p>Hello, Indiana University :(</p>
<p>(including deferred early applicants)</p>
<p>Harvard: 5.5%
Yale: 6.7%
Princeton: 7.7%
Columbia: 8.3%
Brown: 11.8%
Dartmouth: 14.6%
Penn: 16.8%
Cornell: 24.1%</p>
<p>Hey! What gives? I see really, really thick files! Now who sent in those 2 supplementary research papers? :)</p>
<p>Yale: 14% acceptance rate for those Deferred from EA.</p>
<p>Does that mean if you take away the accepted Deferrees,
the "actual" acceptance rate for those who applied in RD round
would be lower than the 6.7% cited above by Byerly??</p>
<p>somebody say something encouraging</p>
<p>Byerly, What was the Stanford RD acceptance rate?</p>
<p>1.6 x 10 to the (-32)????</p>
<p>yea... could the thick folders be more than one application??? possibly apps grouped together for a certain reason???</p>