<p>First of all. I want to congratulate those who have been admitted to Vanderbilt's class of 2008. We all look forward to having you on campus this coming Fall.</p>
<p>This year we received nearly 30% more early decision 1 applications than we did last year. By admitting roughly the same number of students in Early Decision, our admissions counselors experienced a very difficult task.</p>
<p>As I've said before. Please don't take these numbers as just numbers. Vanderbilt is the institution that it is because of our students, faculty, staff and alumni, not because of admissions statistics. </p>
<p>If you have not received your letter, you may call our office tomorrow for decisions over the phone. The number is 1-800-288-0432. </p>
<p>Best wishes to everyone on your college search. Have safe and happy holidays.</p>
<p>Brad</p>
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<p>Without further ado:
TOTAL ED 1 APPS: 1133
A&S 33.8% admitted
BLAIR 50% admitted
ENGINEERING 46.2% admitted</p>
<p>calling ducks: Doesn't that depend on the number of applicants? Are you assuming that RD applicant #'s will be up 30% or is it minimally possible that some people who would have applied RD decided to try and get the ED bump?</p>
<p>If RD applications are up 30%, that would mean approx 3,000 more than last year for RD....Sounds a bit high, but you may be absolutely right.....</p>
<p>IMO, a bump of about 350 students ED seems more likely than one of 3,000.....the numbers were 10% higher for the ED pool last year because they "admitted roughly the same number of students in Early Decision", </p>
<p>1133 X 37.8%=428
Approx, 425/850=50%....See what I mean?</p>
<p>You also have to account for the EDII pool.....Let's wait for those stats also.....</p>
<p>this year's freshman are over-enrolled by about 100 kids and as a result some of them are living in upperclassmen housing (i wish i had that as a freshman), but next year vanderbilt will ONLY be able to have 1500 students because that is all the commons has room for...and the commons simply won't be a success if not all the freshman are living in it. right off the bat you might see what is going to happen. vanderbilt unfortunately might have to pull a WashU this year...place a lot of kids they want on the waiting list in order to exactly hit that number</p>
<p>= significantly lower acceptance rate. now compound the above argument with the huge jump in applications (trends are in percentages not raw numbers...your idea that a number close to 30% won't carry over is wrong) and we're looking at 25% net RD rate being pretty damn accurate (a&s will be around 20% RD)</p>