<p>I'm guessing we'll get more information when Stanford makes its official press release, but this is ridiculous! If the part about regular applicants isn't a typo, that means that we have to add in the more than 5000 SCEA apps for a total of almost 36000 applications to Stanford this year! </p>
<p>Add to this the fact that they're being ultra-conservative in their attempt to enroll a smaller class (1600 students I believe). Accounting for yield I would guess 2200 of those students will receive acceptance letters in the spring, the acceptance rate overall could be as low as 6.1%!! </p>
<p>How do you even discriminate between all those applications!??</p>
<p>And after you take out the legacies (i.e. professor’s kids), recruited athletes (surprisingly many), and some of the random SCEA acceptances, your chances shoot down to… ~3%?</p>
<p>Makes me really feel good about not getting in SCEA, because it’s not like 94% of kids who apply don’t deserve it, it’s just that some have luck on their side.</p>
<p>I’m pretty confident that number includes EA apps. They didn’t get 35,000 + applications because that would be greater than a 20% increase as the article states. But, with a target class of only 1600 this year and applying a 70% yield, the acceptance rate will be in the 7.5% range!</p>
<p>It’d be pretty foolish for anyone to assume they’d be accepted here unless they’re Godlike. I’m just assuming I’m going to get rejected from HYPS. If I do get accepted then I’ll have a pleasant surprise in April. If not, well I wasn’t worrying about it for four months.</p>
<p>The 30,348 should be the total = regular+early. Last year’s number is 25,298 combined. And 20% increase will give that number. Anyway, Stanford could get very close to Harvard in admission rate this year – at about 7.2% over all, Harvard could get 6.9%.</p>
<p>I was fortunate enough to have been accepted SCEA( yay URM status), but i’m gonna write exactly what I wrote on the Harvard board. Dont be so discouraged by the sheer number of apps. I still doubt that the level of “qualified” applicants has increased that much. Im sure a good share of them are " hmmmm WHY NOT" shots in the dark.</p>
<p>Depends. The number of “qualified” applicants available nationwide each year is best determined by high scores (e.g. 750-800) on the SAT. Since 2003 the number of such scores has increased by 33% for Math, but has remained constant for Critical Reading.</p>
<p>So, there is more competition for an application with Math as the selling point, but no increase for those applicants proffering a high CR score.</p>
<p>It is if you are trying to compare two classes in two different years. The number graduating in the top 5% of their class doesn’t change much, and I sure can’t compare EC’s and essays in different years.</p>
<p>6.1% (or something) will end up at Stanford. But they’ll probably accept 7-8% since their yield won’t be 100%, obviously. So, one or two more per 100 people… yay?</p>
6 out of 100 people. That’s depressing.</p>