<p>Yale</a> Daily News - Record numbers apply to 2013</p>
<p>"Yale received a record 25,925 applications to the class of 2013, the admissions office announced Tuesday."</p>
<p>Being deferred and female feels lovely right now.</p>
<p>"Yale will accept between 1,900 and 2,000 applicants overall, Brenzel said, which would produce an acceptance rate between 7.3 and 7.7 percent — a new record for selectivity. "</p>
<p>Whoa.</p>
<p>I just posted this on the stats thread, but I'll repost here. 742 applicants were admitted to Yale through SCEA. Assuming that 80% (a little low, since normal yield is 88%) of these choose to enroll, that's 594 students already in the class of 2013.</p>
<p>Yale likes to have an entering class of around 1300. Put another way, Yale needs about 700 more students for the class of 2013. Since the yield for RD has hovered around 69%, it needs to admit approximately 1000 students.</p>
<p>20368 students applied RD. Add the 2645 students who were deferred from SCEA. That gives a total RD applicant pool of 23013.</p>
<p>1000 students admitted out of 23013 gives an RD admit rate of 4.35%. Even an extremely generous 1200 admits gives an RD admit rate of 5.21%. Delightfully low, eh? :D</p>
<p>wow. this is brutal! give all those people a 3-ft square to stand in and you need 4 football fields to hold them all. how are they going to find me out there???</p>
<p>Actually the overall yield has been about 69%. RD yield runs a little lower, so the 1200 figure is more accurate. And, indeed, the article says they will be admitting "between 1900 and 2000" overall. Take 1950, subtract the 742 EA admits, and there are about 1200 spots overall. Thus, about 5.2% acceptance rate. (Note they give the active applicant number as 23012 in the article, confirming the denominator in your calculations).</p>
<p>I know this isn't welcome news, but its honest.</p>
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<p>I'd bet that deferrees have a significantly better chance than the average applicant of getting in, particularly with the unprecedented proportion of early rejections made by Yale this year. And that note about more female applicants doesn't necessarily make it any harder for girls to get in. There's been this kind of gender distribution for years with applications, but males often slightly outnumber females at Yale, which suggests that there isn't any significant weight given to gender.</p>
<p>Don't be so down on your chances!</p>
<p>Using the gender breakdowns they cite, assuming that the breakdowns are equal across EA and RD admits, and knowing--as the article says--that Yale admits slightly more males than females (who end up 50-50 because female yield trends higher), I get about a 6.0% RD admission rate for males and about a 4.4% RD admission rate for females.</p>
<p>Follow-up: According the most recent CDS, male admits about 990, female admits about 930, who boiled down to an almost perfect 50-50 split among actual matriculants.</p>