http://news.stanford.edu/2017/03/31/offers-admission-2050-students-around-world/
4.65%, lower than last year’s (4.69%) it seems.
Last year:
43977 apps
745 early admits
2063 initial admits
51 waitlist admits
4.8% final admit rate
I don’t follow the statistics all that closely. I read somewhere Stanford was in an expansion phase to increase class size each year for the next five years. Either that is wrong or they expect a rise in yield.
I believe that they start to increase the class size next year.
They actually should have started increasing class sizes last year. The new dorms were completed this year, housing about ~200 more students total, which means they want to aim for about 50 more students a year. Given how much the yield has shot up recently, I wouldn’t be surprised if they accepted fewer people in anticipation of the yield going up even more. There’s always the waitlist if that doesn’t work out, so better accept too few than too many.
Has to do with yield I think. Highly doubt Stanford will have a yield lower than 82%.
On the bright side, the acceptance rate has dropped by only 0.04% which is much less than previous years. Following the increased class size plans, it should only go down by around 0.02% for we 2022ers. Who knows, it may even go up a bit (unlikely).
does anyone know if they perhaps anticipated accepting more transfer students this year?
If Stanford increases it class size by 100 students next year, the admit rate almost certainly will go up, at least slightly.
From the press release, what we don’t know is the number of early applications. So, this is the first time that stanford did not release the info about early admit rate. And this could give some headache for the applicants in the next application cycle.
Chicago goes to another extreme step by not releasing anything. It seems that the ED1/ED2 thing reduced its number of applications and also resulted extreme low RD admit rate. This means if you want to apply to Chicago, you have to apply to ED.
Hiding info about admissions would only create more problems.
@ewho yes for Chicago apparently the number of apps dropped to ~ 28,000, the RD acceptance rate was 2% and about 75-80% of the class was admitted early. wonder what their EA acceptance rate was. I agree it is probably going to cause issues for them in the next admissions cycle and hiding it makes it worse.
Also wonder why Stanford did not release the SCEA numbers now. Maybe Stanford SCEA was so competitive this year that they do not want to disclose the number so that people are not discouraged from applying, since SCEA/ED are usually seen as a way to meaningfully increase chances of admission?
I am watching when acceptance rate goes to 0.01% in 2050 or sooner.
@Penn95, I’m not so sure about those Chicago’s numbers. If they are true, and assume that Chicago’s early ED1/ED2/EA number of applications was about 5000, then it’s RD app was about 23000. A two percent RD rate means that they accepted 460 in the RD round. Consider the RD yield was about 50%, so they locked 1500-460/2=1270 students in ED1/ED2/EA.
This also translates Chicago’s app number next year should be around a little more than 5000, if people speculate this.
The more transparent in admissions, the better. It is terrible to hide information.
“Stanford will be releasing its application and admission statistics only at the conclusion of the admission cycle, after all applicants have been notified, and will continue to do so out of respect for our prospective students and applicants.”
From the press release linked above. Perhaps, they will also report SCEA info at that time.