<p>well they also said that there were 13 applications for every 1 spot in the freshman class, and assuming a yield rate of about 1/3 which seems pretty fair, yeah that's like a 23% acceptance rate. keeping in mind that we're in a demographic bubble of insanely high achieving students (you know, the toughest year yet, etc.) so it wouldn't be surprising to make the 2% decrease.</p>