<p>I thank Xiggi for posting about this over in the Parent Forum. Stanford had a 5.69 admissions rate this year, whereas the former leader, Harvard, came in at 5.8.</p>
<p>Stanford</a> Daily | Class of 2017 admit rate marks record low at 5.7 percent</p>
<p>Well actually Harvard’s acceptance rate was 3.8% I believe. Where did you get 5.8 from?</p>
<p>3.76 was Harvard’s number for the regular round only. H’s rate of admission in the SCEA round was well over 18 percent. The overall rate for both rounds is the number quoted above.</p>
<p>Harvard 2,029/35,023 = 5.79
Stanford 2,210/38,829 = 5.69</p>
<p>Harvard SCEA 895/4,856 = 18.43<br>
Stanford SCEA 725/6,103 = 11.88 </p>
<p>Harvard RD 1,134/30,167 = 3.76
Stanford RD 1,485/32,726 = 4.54</p>
<p>Haha, xiggi, you may have to add the deferred to calculate the Rd admit rates. Stanford deferred about 500. </p>
<p>Anyway, God made the Stanford_wannabe in Boston the second, officially.</p>
<p>Haha, xiggi, you may have to add the deferred to calculate the Rd admit rates. Stanford deferred about 500. </p>
<p>Anyway, God made the Stanford_wannabe in Boston the second, officially.</p>
<p>Harvard and Stanford only admit around 2,000 students each?! Wow! No idea it was that small.</p>
<p>^ But you have to remember that their yield is very, very high compared to most other schools.</p>
<p>
Which one? If you meant Harvard, right, they almost locked 895/2029 = 44% of students in SCEA, where the yield was close to 100%. And they on purposely deferred so many to RD round to make it seem like very low RD admit rate. </p>
<p>Actually nobody really talks about RD admit rates but the early and overall admit rates. Only some people on the Harvard’s threads try to make it “clear” that Harvard is “very” difficult to get in because the low RD admit rates, while not talking about the extremely high early admit rate:</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT 9.9%</li>
<li>Stanford 11.9%</li>
<li>Chicago 13.4%</li>
<li>Yale 14.4%</li>
<li>Princeton 18.3%</li>
<li>Harvard 18.4%</li>
</ol>
<p>It is a double edge sword to admit so many and defer so many in the early round, you tend to have less number of applications and lower admit rate for RD round, for which to push the admission games to its limit. I guess Harvard is trying so hard not to let Stanford pass it.</p>
<p>Stanford is doing everything right to become the most selective school.</p>
<p>Curtis Institute of Music, 3.2% admit rate 2 years ago in 2011.</p>
<p>^^Curtis may be low but it is deceptive because it gives out “free tuition” to all students regardless of whether someone needs financial aid or not. So basically most musicians “throw in” an application no matter how good they really are. Trust me if Harvard or Stanford were to offer free tuition the acceptance rates for both schools would be 1% because every Tom, Dick, and Harry would throw in an application as well.</p>
<p>The title should be most selective university or college.</p>