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Stanford received some 42,167 applications for the class of 2018, accepting 2,138 high school seniors. The university’s admission rate dipped to a record low of 5.1 per cent.
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<p>Stanford beat Harvard again this year! West coast, best coast, as they say…</p>
<p>Once you’re below 20% acceptance, what the heck is the difference? To me, it’s all the same if a “dream school” admits 3% or 20%. In any case, it’s hitting a jackpot.</p>
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<p>17% would disagree with you.</p>
<p>That only matters after the fact, though, when the results are in. When I’m sitting there sussing out how I feel about these two situations - either way, it’s 80% chance of rejection vs 97% chance of rejection - both of which are quite high. I carry an umbrella whether it’s 80% chance of rain or 97%, since it doesn’t make a difference – chances are it’s going to rain on my parade.</p>
<p>Ha! :P</p>
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<p>That is an odd comparison since no one is suggesting that people don’t carry an umbrella (e.g. be prepared for the downside by applying to other schools).</p>
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<p>I think people suss a lot differently about an 80% likelihood of a bad outcome and a 97% percent.</p>
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<p>So there is no difference below 20%, everything is the same? So that means that there really isn’t that much difference between 1% and 20%, but above 20% it is different? </p>
<p>What is the admit rate for unhooked applicants in the RD round?
It must be significantly less than 5.1%.</p>
<p>Stanford is good, but it’s not that good. </p>
<p>^^ the admit rate in the RD round was about 3.8% - the overall admit rate (REA + RD) was 5.1%. So if the RD admit rate was 3.8%, for unhooked applicants it was less than that. Although, many of the hooked applicants apply REA.
And Stanford is that good - at least parents and students think so… lowest admit rate of the elite colleges in the country for the past 2 years</p>
<p>Assuming athletes are invited with likelies and constitute 15%, deduct about 300 admits and applicants straight up, you get an overall rate of 4.3%.</p>
<p>Stanford is definitely that good. It is unique in spirit among the elite universities, having been founded more recently and far away from the “establishment” in the NE. As such, it is future-oriented, innovative, and has great ties to modern industry and cutting edge projects. The atmosphere is exciting and collaborative, with a freer, more laid-back vibe than what you feel at HYP. Stanford may or may not be better than those schools, but it IS different. I recently spoke to an Ivy grad who is a CEO, who expressed to me his sense of the school’s forward momentum, which was one of many reasons Stanford would be where he would like his own D to attend. </p>
<p>Sure, these numbers aren’t going to change your life or mine, but I always find it interesting when the status quo order is shaken up, and beating Harvard once again represents a changing of the guard. </p>
<p>Is there any way to find out what other college’s 2014 admit rates are? Does one need to wait until they post their Common Data Set on their website or is there another way to check?</p>
<p>There was a chart in the linked article with the rates of certain schools. Not every institution has released the data yet.</p>
<p>All Ivies and MIT have released their numbers. Plenty of others simply do not believe in releasing timely information. </p>
<p>Wow! Stanford blew Harvard out of the water. </p>
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How silly to compare schools of this caliber based on admit rates. Both schools will be educating the cream of the crop. </p>
<p>It may indeed be silly, but these are the data that drive rankings, and we all know that many students use rankings to guide their application and attendance decisions. Plenty of statistics are kept about far sillier things. </p>
<p>It’s about the number of applicants. That drives the %. S and H admit roughly the same number. 42k or 35k, it’s still too many. And, if one or the other got, say, 60k applying, just how much does it really change what makes both great? This isn’t some raw measure of superiority- it’s high school kids.</p>
<p>"- it’s high school kids."</p>
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<p>Sure, Stanford is good. However, the admission chances for an unhooked applicant in the RD round are closing asymptotically on zero. So if you are East of the Mississippi, and you are not interested in CS or engineering, why bother (considering all the great alternatives)? Otherwise, geography does help Stanford. It is nearly the only private research university in its class for the entire western United States. </p>