<p>Stanford's SCEA acceptance rate (released yesterday) was 12.8%. Is it possible that Harvard might admit fewer than 10% of its SCEAers?</p>
<p>Post your predictions here! Just a little under 5 days left!</p>
<p>Harvard SCEA 2011:
applied: 4010
accepted: 875
rate: 21.8%</p>
<p>This year?
applied: 4245
acceptance: 850 to be conservative
rate:20%</p>
<p>I would be very sad if Harvard admitted less than 10% early action… </p>
<p>I predict a rate between 18% and 22%</p>
<p>Harvard would not accept a higher admit rate than Columbia’s 19 percent. I would say that they will accept about 750.</p>
<p>Hey do you guys think the adcoms are done finalizing their decisions?</p>
<p>*SCEA decisions</p>
<p>they finished on the 7th</p>
<p>^I’m pretty sure they finished on Wednesday. This week all they’re doing is setting up financial aid packages for all the accepted students, if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>I can’t tell if it’s more or less terrifying that our fates are sealed… D:</p>
<p>(Oh, sorry, didn’t see biomd1’s post. But yes, Wednesday.)</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> College Receives 4,245 Early Applications | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/21/college-early-admissions-numbers/]Harvard”>Harvard College Receives 4,245 Early Applications | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>They received 4245 applications.</p>
<p>From past EA years, they always accepted between 825-900 applicants. </p>
<p>Conservative prediction (IMO): </p>
<p>800 accepted out of 4245 applicants = 18.85% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Hope this helps you guys :). G</p>
<p>My question: Would Harvard really have an EA acceptance rate that’s higher than Stanford’s?</p>
<p>Of course, Harvard’s decisions were (supposedly) finalized before Stanford released its numbers, so Harvard probably won’t purposely defer extra people after the fact just to “beat” Stanford’s acceptance rate. However, it’s hard to imagine Harvard having an 18% EA admissions rate compared to Stanford’s 12.8%, given the admit rates from the class of 2015 (6.2% at Harvard; 7.1% at Stanford).</p>
<p>^You have a good point, however, Harvard probably had a sense of what the stanford numbers were going to be based on past REA admission rates. So the admission figures at Stanford which were published should not have come as a surprise for them.
your question remains however valid: will they want a 18% SCEA rate compared to 12.8% at stanford?</p>
<p>^In class of 2011, when Harvard still had its SCEA, they admitted 22% whereas stanford = 16%.</p>
<p>then if we have a similar ratio this year, the admit rate should be around 17-18% -> about 740 admits</p>
<p>S always has a low EA admission rate, similar as MIT. Y is a more comparable school - and it has predicted to admit 750-850 for EA this year. With a similar EA pool and a bigger incoming class, it’s safe to say if H keeps a lower EA rate than Y, and still has a lowest overall admission rate it’s OK (from the Admission office’s point of view)… Right? So 750-800 EA admits should be a pretty reasonable prediction, although that might imply a much lower RD admission rate (<5%).</p>
<p>Gee, I really hope 20% happens, but I find that unlikely.</p>
<p>I’m from the Yale board… you know, just checking up…
And Yale is actually poised to accept 650-750 EA applicants.</p>
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It may be a wish for Harvard this year. Stanford already said that it would expect 34000 applications, a number similar to its last year’s. Hopefully it is not a surprise again for Harvard in the overall round as it did for SCEA case, when Harvard received a smaller number of applications even compared with Yale’s .</p>