<p>XYZ Affair, Yale's SCEA acceptance rate of 13% doesn't take into account that it is arguably one of the strongest applicant pools (including those who would have applied early to Harvard or Princeton) and also includes the majority of athletic recruits, legacies, and hooked cases.</p>
<p>Everyone needs to chill out.</p>
<p>Brown won't be 8%, it will be about 11% like Dartmouth this year.</p>
<p>....that post was me chilling out.</p>
<p>But you can't ignore these 3 simple facts...
1) 2009 is the largest graduating class in US HISTORY [im not 100% positive about this...but im pretty sure its true]
2) Because of the amazing financial aid and economic disaster, more students than ever are flocking to schools like Dartmouth
3) 11%!....11%. Only one in NINE will be accepted...Sorry, but thats a clincher. </p>
<p>Good luck everyone. You're all going to need it. This year has been a blood bath when it comes to college admissions...and it's only going to get worse in April. </p>
<p>(By the way, i dont believe that Brown could have an 8% admission rate...that cant be right)</p>
<p>^It's not right. Someone started a thread in the Brown forum claiming that they 'calculated' this is what the admission rate would be. But, they plugged in the wrong numbers (I think they may have accidentally assumed a 100% yield rate or something).</p>
<p>They realized they were wrong, but a lot of people didn't read more than the thread title.</p>
<p>Every graduating class is the biggest in US history.</p>
<p>Up until this year, MYSO. The decline starts for the class of 2010.</p>
<p>actually I think more people are thinking of public universities or community college. there were some newspaper articles regarding that..but I don't want to bother looking them up..</p>
<p>of course, there is that problem about ED..less ED applicants this year so RD pool might be bigger than in other years </p>
<p>either way, admissions are highly selective</p>
<p>actually, ED applications went up at a ton of schools</p>
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<p>Definitely not true. Class of 2005 was over enrolled to the extent that at the time the school gave a year's free housing to those who would defer a year. </p>
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With 1146 members in the Class of 2005, this year’s group of incoming freshmen will be Dartmouth’s largest in history and may face some issues because of its size.</p>
<p>Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said he expects an attrition of an additional 15 to 20 students before Fall term registration. Yet, even added to the 39 students who have already deferred — 13 of whom accepted an Admissions Office incentive of one year’s free room and board — this puts the expected class size at about 1,125 — still 50 students more than were originally intended.</p>
<p>“It’s obviously going to be the largest class we’ve ever had,” Furstenberg said, adding that, although the same number of applicants were accepted this year as last year, the large class size was due to an unexpected increase in yield.</p>
<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | Class of 2005 may face size challenges</p>
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<p>The the '11s were over enrolled with 1119 students and every other class was pretty on point between ~1075 and 1099 students (with the exception of the 9's there has been slight growth each year, but not much). The 9s were the first class to have housing guaranteed both freshman and sophomore years.</p>
<p>class enrollment
07 1077
08 1081
09 1075
10 1086
11 1119
12 1096</p>
<p>He meant every high school graduating class for the entire United States.</p>