stanford accepts only 9.5%???

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8729146%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8729146&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>haha, yeah, it even made my local news today.</p>

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<p>oh sod it.</p>

<p>im getting rejected.</p>

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<p>wow.... now i'm depressed</p>

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<p>Scary number that 9.5</p>

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<p>I have two questions about this press release: </p>

<p>1) What is the size of the waiting list this year? </p>

<p>2) What assumption is being made about yield by the size of the admitted class, as compared to the target size of the enrolled class?</p>

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<p>tokenadult, Stanford waitlisted about 6% of the pool, so 1500 out of the 24,000 applicants. They said their projected class is 1,670 so I guess out of 2,400 acceptees, that's a 70% predicted yield rate. Last year's yield rate was 67% according to US News and World Report (<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/yield_natudoc_brief.php)%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/yield_natudoc_brief.php)&lt;/a>, so if the yield stays at 67% they might use their waitlist.</p>

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<p>^^ that isn't updated. Their yield last year was 70%.</p>

<p>Stanford</a> University: Common Data Set 2007-2008</p>

<p>That's why they overenrolled slightly last year (by about 70 students), why they didn't accept anyone from the waitlist, and why they accepted slightly fewer this year.</p>

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<p>Don't you think the Harvard/Princeton decisions will throw off the yield at all?</p>

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Don't you think the Harvard/Princeton decisions will throw off the yield at all?

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<p>That's sure what I'm curious about.</p>

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Don't you think the Harvard/Princeton decisions will throw off the yield at all?

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<p>What do you mean? Of course it will. It always does. That's why Stanford is looking at a 70% yield--the rest are most likely gonna go to HYPM/other schools.</p>

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<p>But even MORE so than years past.</p>

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<p>Why would they? What's the change that would cause that? The change in early pools has already shown its effects.</p>

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<p>I think he means because nobody could apply to Princeton and Harvard early, people who applied and got accepted to Stanford whose first choice was/is Princeton/Harvard would skew the yield rate as opposed to last year, because had these people gotten in to Princeton/Harvard early, they wouldn't have applied to Stanford. I think there will be a marginal yield decrease but not drastic.</p>