Scores and admission -- Y 2015

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>For the class of 2015, a few stats on test scores and admission. The executive summary, no surprise, is that the better your test scores, the better your chance of admission, but even very high scores don’t guarantee you’ll get in.</p>

<p>The admission rate was 7.7% (this is a little higher than the 7.35% reported earlier in the year – probably due to 104 students accepted from the wait list, and 36 students who deferred admission). Yield was 65.2%. For entering freshmen, the SAT 50th percentile was 740V, 760M, 750W. 25th percentile was 700-700-710. The 75th percentile was 790 or 800 on all three tests. For ACT, the 50th percentile was 33 and the 25th percentile was 31.</p>

<p>For students with scores at 760 or above, Yale accepted about 15% (800/5359) on critical reading, 13% (1049/8064) on Math, and 15% (974/6556) on writing. For students with scores between 700 and 750, Yale accepted ~10% on critical reading (675/6964), ~8% on math (466/5658), and 8.5% (551/6461) for writing. Below those levels, the admission rate falls off to less than 5% for applicants with scores 600-690, and less than 2% for scores below 600.</p>

<p>At the other end of the range, Yale accepted 2 of the 587 applicants with scores below 500 on critical reading, 0 of the 409 applicants with scores below 500 on math, and 2 of 521 below 500 on writing. (Those who got in with low verbal scores might be otherwise brilliant international applicants for whom English is a second language.)</p>

<p>And, for the record, 181 of 930 legacy applicants (about 20%) were in the entering class -- mostly children of Yale College alums, but some children of parents with graduate degrees. If we guess that yield was 80% for legacy applicants, then the admissions rate would have been a bit under 25%.</p>

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<p>A great summary! Thanks for sharing the insightful data. Do you also have similar data for the other top schools?</p>

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<p>Does his mean that 25% of the accepted students scored 2370 or higher on the SAT ?</p>

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<p>^if this is the case, then:
according to collegeboard stats, there were 1257 students in 2010 who scored 2370 or higher.
yale accepted 2070 students roughly, therefore 517 students scored 2370+
Assuming all 1257 high scorers applied to Yale, that makes an acceptance rate of 41% for these candidates. much higher than the average 6 or 7% for the rest of us !</p>

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<p>farfalla asked:

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<p>No, because not everyone who gets a high score on one section of the SAT also gets a high score on other sections. It means that on each of the tests considered individually, a quarter of the class was at 790 or 800. Those who scored 2370 or better are a smaller group. This is important to keep in mind in interpreting the stats in my first post. Some of the people who were rejected despite very high scores on one section of the test may have been weaker on other parts. </p>

<p>In response to Hparent’s question, I just got the Yale data today, and don’t have comparable info for other schools. But it’s likely that the general picture would be similar at Yale’s peers.</p>

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<p>your sentence

made me think that they scored that high on each section of the test simultaneously</p>