<p>@TheRedSky…my son was admitted also and on the financial aid website it said that FA decisions would be posted Monday (4/2).</p>
<p>@smilldeb - ED was 20%, overall was 12.4%, and about a third of the entering class will be people who got in ED. i heard from someone at CMC that the accept rate was 6%, which defs isn’t what it was overall, but that may have been the actual RD rate, with 12% representing the overall between the ED and RD acceptances.</p>
<p>Based on those numbers, the RD acceptance rate is 8.6%.</p>
<p>.20(.333) + x(.666) = .124 – (where x is the RD acceptance rate)</p>
<p>I got in!
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GPA- top 10%
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Hispanic male, from the midwest.<br>
I’m so excited and very grateful. I was also admitted to Pitzer, Michigan, NYU, Middelbury,and waitlisted at two others. My decision is gonna come down to Pitzer and CMC, I loved both when I visited, although I felt a bit more connected at Pitzer. I’ll make my descion after admitted students day, congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>Someone posted that Financial Aid was supposed to be posted yesterday, but we still don’t see anything, just the “Congratulations” page. No links to financial aid website, or anything.</p>
<p>No F.A. letter in the mail yesterday either.</p>
<p>Wow! Another day gone by and no letter from CMC on financial aid. Don’t they realize that the financial aid information is an important part of the decision making process? What in the world are they thinking?</p>
<p>Other schools which handed out decisions on Thursday, March 29th gave out the FA information either immediately, or by the next day. The majority of colleges now had it available online at the time the admit decision was given.</p>
<p>Shame on you CMC. You are slow as molasses, and that’s not a good thing in the 21st century.</p>
<p>tugtraveller - the financial aid packages were mailed last week and many accepted students have received their FA information. Your local Post Office, and not the CMC Admission Office, is to blame for the delay.</p>
<p>CMCstudent206, thanks for your reply, and we did finally receive the financial aid packet in today’s mail. But FYI, it was postmarked April 3, 2012 which was yesterday, not last week.</p>
<p>The RD acceptance rate would be higher than 8.6% because you have to account for yield. Last year CMC had about a 50% yield (50% of the students accepted actually decided to go to CMC). [ir</a> - cds](<a href=“http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/ir/cds.php]ir”>Common Data Set | Claremont McKenna College)</p>
<p>.20(100)+x(500) = .124*600 (assuming a projected class of 300, thus CMC has to accept 600)
x=.1088 -> 10.88% RD acceptance, assuming that CMC thinks it will have a 50% yield. If so, it would accept 600 to have a class of 300. Actual % will probably be lower than this, but definitely higher than 8.6%. </p>
<p>I wonder if CMC adjusted its yield due to the SAT scandal. If the admissions office thinks less people would choose CMC this year, then the yield would go down, causing the RD acceptance rate to go up. Nevertheless, 12.4% is still a very low acceptance rate.</p>
<p>The yield rate and number of actual people admitted aren’t in my calculation because they aren’t needed. The 12.4% is the total number of people admitted divided by the total applicants. A rate of 20% accounts for one third of this number, so we have .124 = .20(.333). The rest (66.6%) is accounted for by the RD admit rate, some unknown ‘x’.</p>
<p>Thus giving us: .124 = x(.666) + .20(.333)</p>
<p>I agree the number of actual people admitted aren’t needed, but the yield rate is needed. They have accepted 1/3 of the actual class through ED because almost 100% of those admits will go to CMC. But CMC will admit more people than just 2/3 of the entering class during RD because some people won’t go to CMC, but these extra people accepted will still factor into the total acceptance rate. With 50% yield, it should be like</p>
<p>.124=.2<em>(1/6) + x</em>(5/6) —> 1/6 is from the fact that though it is 1/3 of the class, since CMC accepted double the amount of people that it thinks will end up going, 1/3 of the class becomes 1/6 of the total acceptances.</p>
<p>Oh, right, I see what you’re saying. The ED rate is 33% of the incoming class, not 33% of the overall admit rate.</p>
<p>Anyone else waiting on a late decision?</p>