What do you think the new acceptance rate will be?

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<p>I'm too lazy to re-type the colleges I'm applying to, if you want to see what "squillions" means. Lol. :)</p>

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If anyone didn't apply anywhere but Harvard, they would either be extremely arrogant or their parents would have to have donated squillions of dollars... lol

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or they got a likely early on for sports or something</p>

<p>Anyways, 2000 isn't a special number for diversity--it's just the amount of kids they can best accommodate in each class. If you have houses across the river, that's really going to be isolating portions of the student community, especially when it blizzards. Anytime you're only accepting a small number of kids you're going to be 'leaving out' many many other overqualified kids...</p>

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All frosh (well, >90%) could no longer live together on the Old Yard

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They already don't, and even though there's only a small distance there's still some isolation of non-yard frosh from yard frosh.</p>

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<p>This year will be a record low rate at about 5.5%</p>

<p>I spoke with a director of admissions:</p>

<p>There were 29,000 applicants</p>

<p>and roughly</p>

<p>1,600 spots.</p>

<p>...Good. Night. and Good. Luck.</p>

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<p>5.5%? That is as low as Juilliard's acceptance rate!</p>

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<p>^ Thanks, Keith Olberman.</p>

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<p>The 5.5 percent figure is wrong, because Harvard admits more students than it enrolls. Even Harvard doesn't have a 100 percent yield, although in a typical year it has the top yield in the country. I know students Harvard admitted who turned down Harvard for MIT, and one who turned down Harvard for Notre Dame (which would not be my choice in the same circumstances). I think the correct best guess was already given by coureur above.</p>

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<p>The yield is more like 80%. Higher than most colleges.</p>

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<p>tokenadult:</p>

<p>1,600 / 29,000 = 0.551724</p>

<p>It's not a guess.
I suppose I see your connection b/w the accept. rate and the yield.
But regardless of how many spots on the wait list Harvard has to delve into (and theoretically up their acceptance rate), there are only 1600 spots.</p>

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<p>No, you are not taking into account that Harvard will admit more students than it has spots. It does this every year, because not all students offered a spot take a spot. Amazing, I know, but true. As I wrote above, coureur has already posted a more educated guess, I think in this thread.</p>

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<p>Harvard has about 1650 spots I heard and has an 80% yield rate so will have to accept about 2000-2100 to get that 1650. Comes out to 7.2% acceptance rate if they admit 2100, probably around 7% as they will probably take just under 2100.</p>

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<p>Ohhh... so they'll admit more ppl than necessary to make sure all of the spots are filled - I'll admit, I did not know that. But what if their yield is higher than expected and there aren't enough spots to accommodate everybody?</p>

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<p>tokenadult is absolutely correct! </p>

<p>there was a student in my son's high school a few years ago who turned down Harvard to attend another school (not an ivy).</p>

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<p>rach, this happened at Stanford last year. A student we know had an awful time with his living arrangements his first year.</p>

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<p>For</a> Top Colleges, Economy Has Not Reduced Interest (or Made Getting in Easier) - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com </p>

<p>in the article dean fitzsimmons says the rate will be 7%</p>

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<p>one day our kids will be like, "hey dad/mom, you guys had it so easy at 7%. the acceptance rate is now 0.7%!" lolz.</p>

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<p>^ We'll have a nuclear war, and instead it will be like "Hey dad/mom you guys had it so easy, being able to go outside of the vaults!"</p>

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<p><em>insert sarah palin/obama joke here</em></p>

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<p>The best thing about that article was this:</p>

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"“We’re going to listen,’’ he said. “We don’t have a policy of matching other schools’ awards. But we’re going to listen to what a family thinks its unusual circumstances might be. We learn a lot about our families in April.’’"

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<p>I thought it was incredibly nice that they would be that open about it, and it sounded like they really do care.</p>

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<p>"This year will be a record low rate at about 5.5%</p>

<p>I spoke with a director of admissions:</p>

<p>There were 29,000 applicants</p>

<p>and roughly</p>

<p>1,600 spots."</p>

<p>i disagree - in the past there have been about 2100 accepted, and 1800 eventually matriculated.... so 2100 / 29,000, maybe?</p>

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<p>The acceptance rate will be 7%.</p>