School of Engg and App Sciences (SEAS) at Columbia University beats MIT !

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<p>Well, in selectivity.</p>

<p>The Office of the Provost at Columbia University posts detailed statistics on the website at some time during the year. The admission stats for the year 2013 have now been posted.
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/opir_admissions_history_1.htm"&gt;http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/opir_admissions_history_1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The numbers should delight anyone who is interested in joining the SEAS at Columbia
Columbia College School of Engineering
Apps Admits Enroll Admit % Yield % Apps Admits Enroll Admit % Yield %</p>

<p>2013 26,376 1,751 1,094 7% 62% 7,155 560 322 8% 58%</p>

<p>In 2013 the number admitted to SEAS was less than 8%, only a little above that admitted to the College.
In 2008, the numbers were 18% and 9% respectively. In 2003, they were 29% and 11% respectively.
While the number admitted has remained at about 325, the number of candidates seeking application has been rapidly increasing each year.The number in 2013 was 7155, more than twice that in 2008. The difficulty level is further heightened by the steady increase in the yield percentage: from about 50 % in the middle of the decade to about 60% now.</p>

<p>What is interesting is that MIT received about 18000 applications and offered admissions to about 8.2% of the candidates.
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/facts/admission.html"&gt;http://web.mit.edu/facts/admission.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>So to all those who kept the faith that SEAS will recover to its historical position as one of the best engineering schools in the country: Cheers !!</p>

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<p>I’m in SEAS and come on, these competitions are meaningless. I can tell that SEAS is fantastic by the professors I’ve met and the research I witness. Comparing acceptance rates makes no sense because MIT’s yield is higher and has a larger class size. And SEAS has some of the best programs in certain fields in the country. Columbia is just a different experience, not a lesser university. </p>

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<p>Great to see, though I would agree with @moliss, in general.</p>

<p>Just as a point of information a propos nothing, I understand that this year MIT changed the way it calculates number of applicants, thus admit % increased. It is standard practice to count all those who started an application as “applicants”: that is what all schools do. This year, MIT switched the calculations. Now, they only count fully completed on-time received applications as “applicants.” Thus the numbers skew a bit.</p>

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<p>I heard that Columbia switched to completed applications, but I’m not sure.</p>

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<p>Another thing:

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<p>Number enrolled, you mean. Colleges have to accept more than that number.</p>

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<p>I thought seas didn’t release admit stats separately from the college?</p>

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<p>They release basic one-significant-figure stats months after with the schools separate.</p>

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<p>smarter students, same old ■■■■■■ profs</p>