<p>Regular Decision at competitive schools: 2013 statistics are showing up </p>
<p>To keep up with the CC tradition, let's organize the latest numbers for the Class of 2013 that will enter in the Fall of 2009. </p>
<p>This was last year's thread:</p>
<p>It would be nice to see the numbers and a link to the source of the information. Thanks!</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna has reported (in its acceptance letter) that the school received 4,274 applications for 280 freshman openings. The reported acceptance rate is supposed to be around 15%.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/claremont-mckenna-college/673251-how-many-applicants-class-2013-a.html#post1062132018[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/claremont-mckenna-college/673251-how-many-applicants-class-2013-a.html#post1062132018</a></p>
<p>Does Claremont McKenna resort to its waiting list most years, or is it done admitting students?</p>
<p>[The</a> Vandy Admissions Blog Blog Archive 2009 Decision Letters Have Been Mailed](<a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/vandybloggers/2009/03/2009-decision-letters-have-been-mailed/]The”>2009 Decision Letters Have Been Mailed | The Vandy Admissions Blog | Vanderbilt University)</p>
<p>2009 Decision Letters Have Been Mailed
Thom March 26th, 2009</p>
<p>Decision letters for the next great incoming class at Vanderbilt University have officially left 2305 West End Avenue!</p>
<p>Last year’s incoming class was historic. For a year now, the Vanderbilt class of 2012, the first Commons class, was able to boast about being the most diverse, best prepared group of incoming students ever seen at Vanderbilt. After this coming Fall, the class of 2012 will not be able to say that anymore. </p>
<p>In several ways, Vanderbilt’s applicant pool had a breakthrough year in terms of the overall quality, depth of character, diversity, and intellectualism. Some highlights of this amazing applicant pool include:***</p>
<p>19,350 applications received, up 16% over last year and setting a new Vanderbilt record.
Vanderbilt’s geographic diversity continues to expand as students from around the United States and overseas consider Vanderbilt an academic destination. This year’s applicants hail from all 50 US States, 13 US Territories and Military Bases, and 97 foreign countries, up from 77 just two years ago.
The exploding growth in the ethnic diversity of Vanderbilt’s applicant pool continued yet again this year, with all underrepresented groups registering double-digit increases in applications over last year:
African-American: Up 15%
Asian: Up 20%
Hispanic: Up 18%
Native-American: Up 33%
Other Minority: Up 10%
International: Up 38%
This year’s applicant pool featured the highest level of academic preparation in Vanderbilt’s history as evidenced by students enrolling in the most demanding curriculum offered at their high school.
Most impressively, our applicant pool set a new standard of engagement and leadership at the high school, community, regional, national, and international level.
As a result, our staff had the difficult task of selecting the students who will make up another historically accomplished and diverse incoming class at Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>Statistically, below is a breakdown of the students admitted for the Vanderbilt class of 2013. It is critical to understand that these figures are provided to assist you in contextualizing our decisions, and have never been, and never will be, firm cut-offs in our process. The middle 50% standardized testing bands mean that, for example, 25% of students admitted had below a 1400 SAT (M+CR) or an ACT composite below a 31, and 25% had above a 1560 or a 34. We believe strongly in the merits of a truly holistic review process for admission, and these numbers cannot fully capture everything that gets considered - leadership, character, intellectual verve, and overall fit with Vanderbilt, for example. </p>
<p>Admit Rate: 18.9%
Middle 50% SAT Reasoning (M+CR): 1400 - 1560
Middle 50% ACT Composite: 31 - 34
Percent of admitted class in top 10% of their graduating high school class: 92.15%*
Gender breakdown:
Female: 49.1%
Male: 50.9%
*Figures only represent admitted students for whom we have official rank information from their high school.</p>
<p>Our office will be closed to the public tomorrow (Friday, 3/27). We will not release decisions over the phone until Wednesday, April 1st. If you have not received your decision by then, please feel free to call our office (800.288.0432).</p>
<p>Congratulations to the newest members of the Vanderbilt community!</p>
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<p>Token, you can find the information regarding the use of the waiting list on the released Common Data Sets. <a href=“http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/ir/cds.php[/url]”>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/ir/cds.php</a></p>
<p>In the last two admission cycles, the total number of students accepted from the waiting list has been … ZERO! Actually, the enrolled number of students (320) was higher than anticipated. </p>
<p>In general terms, you could say that CMC has not played the wait list game that marred the last two years at many schools. The practice of under-admitting in December and April and immediately going to the wait list serves to boost admit rates and yield. For a comparison, look at schools such as Duke that used its WL extensively. Additional data points for the Class of 2012 at LACs are that Williams had 42 WL admits, Amherst 37, and Swarthmore 34.</p>
<p>Source: [Duke</a> admissions get tougher still - Triangle Business Journal:](<a href=“http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/03/23/daily69.html]Duke”>http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/03/23/daily69.html)</p>
<p>Duke University got even tougher to get into this year, the school says, with a 17 percent acceptance rate for the class of 2013.</p>
<p>Duke says it has admitted 4,065 students thus far to its next undergraduate class out of a record 23,843 who sent in applications. That admissions rate is down from 18.8 percent last year and 20 percent the year before that.</p>
<p>The university expects 1,705 of the students to enroll this fall.</p>
<p>PS Inasmuch as the released numbers might not have been released by the school directly, the historical comparisons are misleading. It is one thing to release preliminary numbers before addressing the wait list impact, but quite another to NOT incorporate them one year after the facts. In April 2008, Duke also announced a sub-20% admission rate (about 3800 admitted out of 20,300 applications.) The real admission numbers were, however, quite different with more than 4,200 admissions out of 20,400 applications. See <a href=“https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html[/url]”>https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html</a> .</p>
<p>In other words, the quoted numbers in “That admissions rate is down from 18.8 percent last year and 20 percent the year before that” are simply bogus.</p>
<p>Nice thread. :)</p>
<p>[Columbia</a> admits most selective class with overall rate of 9.82 percent | Columbia Spectator](<a href=“http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/03/30/columbia-admits-most-selective-class-overall-rate-982-percent]Columbia”>Columbia admits most selective class with overall rate of 9.82 percent)</p>
<p>Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science admitted 9.82% of applicants overall, yielding its most selective undergraduate class. </p>
<p>The number of applicants reached a record high this year, with 25,428 applying to both schools, an increase of 13 percent over last year’s 22,584. The College admitted 8.92 percentmaking it slightly less selective than last year’s 8.71 percent, perhaps due to a last-second 50-student enrollment increaseand SEAS admitted 14.42 percent of applicants, a lower proportion than last year’s 17.6 percent.</p>
<p>this year is killer! i am thinking of so many kids who jumped through all the hoops,willingly took all the classes expected of top school applicants,who pursued their passion yet have been denied to many rigorous schools (data just from cc i admit). i’m sure other posters will tell me the students got in somewhere fine and will be happy…i guess i am just too tenderhearted!</p>
<p>Harvard Universitys undergraduate college said it admitted 7 percent of the applicants for the next entering class after the most competitive admissions process in the history of the institution. </p>
<p>Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a record 29,112 applications, William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, said today in a statement. Financial aid offered by the university helped attract applicants, he said. </p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Admissions Drop to 7% on Record Applicants (Update1) - Bloomberg.com](<a href=“Politics - Bloomberg”>Politics - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>Penn accepted 3,926 students out of a pool of 22,939 applicants *- an overall admit rate of 17.11 percent for the class of 2013.</p>
<p>By contrast, acceptances increased from last year, when the University took 3,902 students out of 22,935 last year, including 170 from the wait list in May and June - an rate of 17.01 percent.</p>
<p>This year, 2,411 students were accepted to the College of Arts and Sciences, 837 to the School of Engineering and Applied Science, 544 to Wharton and 134 to the School of Nursing, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda.</p>
<p>Results for Brown:</p>
<p>Of the total 24,988 applicants - including both early and regular decision - 2,708 will be admitted. According to Miller, the Office of Admissions sent out acceptance letters to 10.8 percent of applicants, while 13.3 percent were admitted last year.</p>
<p>[Brown</a> admits 10.8% in most selective year ever - Campus News](<a href=“http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2009/03/31/CampusNews/Brown.Admits.10.8.In.Most.Selective.Year.Ever-3689313.shtml]Brown”>http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2009/03/31/CampusNews/Brown.Admits.10.8.In.Most.Selective.Year.Ever-3689313.shtml)</p>
<p>By my calculations, the RD acceptance rate was about 9.5 percent, based on the numbers admitted ED.</p>
<p>Yale at 7.5%.</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Admit rate falls to record-low 7.5 percent](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/28392]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/28392)</p>
<p>[Admit</a> rate rises to 17.1 percent | Interactive graph - News](<a href=“http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2009/03/31/News/Admit.Rate.Rises.To.17.1.Percent.Interactive.Graph-3688972.shtml]Admit”>http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2009/03/31/News/Admit.Rate.Rises.To.17.1.Percent.Interactive.Graph-3688972.shtml)</p>
<p>I think the fact that most of these schools received over 22,000 applicants is amazing!</p>
<p>I don’t know how you can compare the acceptance rate of these schools to a school that only receives around 4,000 applicants.</p>
<p>Princeton makes offers to 9.79 percent of applicants; expands class and aid</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University - Princeton makes offers to 9.79 percent of applicants; expands class and aid](<a href=“Princeton makes offers to 9.79 percent of applicants; expands class and aid”>Princeton makes offers to 9.79 percent of applicants; expands class and aid)</p>
<p>In keeping with the culmination of a five-year plan to expand the size of its student body, Princeton University has offered admission to 2,150, or 9.79 percent of the record 21,964 applicants for the class of 2013.</p>
<p>The University plans to enroll its highest number of freshmen in history – 1,300 students – as the final stage of a planned gradual expansion of the size of the undergraduate population that began in 2005 with the class of 2009.</p>
<p>2013 Admit Applied %
Brown 2,708 24,988 10.84
Columbia 2,497 25,428 9.82
Cornell 6,566 34,381 19.10
Dartmouth 2,180 18,130 12.02
Harvard 2,046 29,112 7.03
Penn 3,926 22,939 17.11
Princeton 2,150 21,964 9.79
Yale 1,951 26,000 7.50
Total Ivies 24,024 202,942 11.84</p>
<p>Estimated</p>
<p>MIT + Stanford Overall </p>
<p>2013 Admit Applied %
Stanford 2,300 30,428 7.56
MIT 1,597 15,661 10.20
Total 3,897 46,089 8.46</p>
<p>2013 Overall </p>
<p>Columbia Admit Applied %
CC 1,898 21,274 8.92
SEAS 599 4,154 14.42
Combined 2,497 25,428 9.82</p>
<p>Stanford University announced today that 2,300 candidates have been offered admission to its undergraduate Class of 2013. </p>
<p>The figure, which includes 689 candidates admitted in December through Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action Program, represents an admission rate of just 7.6 percent, the most competitive in the university’s history. </p>
<p>The university received an unprecedented 30,428 applications. The Office of Undergraduate Admission initially anticipated approximately 25,000 applications but experienced a 20 percent surge, possibly because of enhanced financial aid programs that make Stanford more affordable for low- and middle-income families.</p>