The title says it all. And by how many percentage points do you predict that the acceptance rate will drop or increase for each school? I’m curious about what you guys think
I’m not an expert on this by any means but my guess is Harvard. They’ve actually announced that they’re going to accept less people so that they can pull more people off of the waitlist. Last year nobody who was waitlisted was accepted, and I guess they didn’t like that.
^The issue is that there was overenrollment at Harvard. Of the accepted students, more matriculated than they expected. It is not that they want to use a waitlist just for the sake of it. This year, to avoid more overenrollment than crowding, they will admit fewer students, then go to their waitlist if needed, if enough accepted students choose Yale or MIT or Stanford or Amherst or Williams, etc., above Harvard and there is room in the class.
Either Princeton or Penn. The former’s prestige keeps on rising and Penn is getting more and more popular for international students. Would not be surprised to see Princeton dip below 6% and Penn to be ~8% or under.
@h0kulani By how much do you think it will decrease? It’s already at 5.2% I believe. I actually don’t expect Harvard to drop that much since its acceptance rate is so low already
I believe it is going to be Cornell. The acceptance rate dropped 1.5 percentage points last year (from 14% to 12.5%) which was more than any other school. And it’s dropped ten percentage points within the last ten years. I think it’s because the amount of applications increase by a lot each year and since it has the highest acceptance rate it is easier to reduce it. Whereas schools like Harvard can’t go too much lower (they are already at 5% where are they going to go? 0%?)