What do you think the new acceptance rate will be?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Year before last was 9%, I think last year was also around 9% (not sure though), but this year there should be more applicants so what do you think the admissions rate will be?</p>

<p>Also taking bets on the Yale and Harvard acceptance rates. Last year, they were ~8% and ~7% respectively; in 2007 they were both around 9%.</p>

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<p>8-9%
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<p>One day the acceptance rates will become like 1% if they keep decreasing as they have.</p>

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<p>6-7%
10char</p>

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<p>Over 9000.</p>

<p>It doesn't matter really.</p>

<p>What does matter is that the admissions committee actually did a good job this time around making offers of admission, so their yield isn't 59 percent again.</p>

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<p>59% is a pretty good yield isn't it? How could they get a higher yield? What would you recommend? I imagine there will be numerous cross admits.</p>

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<p>Whoa last year their yield was only 59%?! Wow… hehe though I probably didn’t help =P</p>

<p>Not sure how they could increase yield, but some other colleges of similar prestige/selectivity have 70-80+% yields.</p>

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<p>well, atleast for liberal arts schools and other schools i know that have massive numbers of applicants, a prime way to up the yield is to seriously consider applicant interest.</p>

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<p>the reason their yield is so low is because of all the people who apply to princeton, harvard, yale, mit, and stanford or some combination of above schools… You know you all are guilty!</p>

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<p>umm, you guys might want to check out the Penn board, there’s a thread with a link to a Daily Pennsylvanian article claiming Penn and Princeton both had increases in admissions rates this year. Penn from 16something to 21, and Princeton to over 11.
I don’t know where those numbers would be coming from, though.</p>

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<p>I remember hearing how they were planning on expaning the number of students offered admission this year… they were building dorms and stuff. I don’t remember the number being significant, but 11% could be an increase of (I’m guessing here, I don’t know the official numbers) ~150-250 applicants. Either way, 11% is a pretty attractive number right now.</p>

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<p>Yea they should be admitting more kids this year because New Butler College will be ready for move-in in the fall. Also more dorms are being allocated to res colleges (e.g. a few entryways in Little, Walker, etc)</p>

<p>How to increase yield:

  1. Bring back early decision
  2. Develop a fetish for waitlisting applicants (WashU, anybody?)</p>