<p>my friend is applying to princeton and her mother, an alum interviewer, received an email shortly after ed decisions came out. basically, the email said that princeton accepted so much of the class of 2009 early that their rd acceptance rate would be only 3-4%!!!</p>
<p>did anyone else hear about that? i'm not applying to princeton but i absolutely could not believe that. (my friend definitely didn't make it up though; she never ever lies. it would be weirdly out of character)</p>
<p>I think it'll be lower than last year, but definitely not 3-4%. I'm guessing around 7%</p>
<p>Did they accept that many more people this year early?? I thought the usual RD acceptance rate was around 9-10%.</p>
<p>Well, it was 8.8% last year. If it gets any lower . . . well, it's not like I expected to be accepted in the first place.</p>
<p>does anyone know what is their total applicant number for RD? have they released it yet?</p>
<p>Princeton University has offered admission to 593 students from a pool of 2,039 high school seniors who applied through early decision for the class of 2009...</p>
<p>The early decision candidates are expected to comprise 49 percent of the class of 2009, the same percentage as the previous year....</p>
<p>The RD admit rate was 9% last year. 11,875 RD applicants, and 1,069 RD admits - including those from the WL - to fill roughly 600 slots. Thus, the RD yield rate was around 56%.</p>
<p>Last year, Princeton admitted 581 of 1,815 ED applicants "to fill 49%" of the class of 1,175.</p>
<p>This year's 593 ED admits are more likely to constitute 50% of the Class of 2009 - or slightly more - if the class is the same size as last year.</p>
<p>I expect that there will be an increase in the number of RD applicants - which suffered a large decline last year - so that the RD admit rate may fall.</p>
<p>yeah, i know that 3-4% is WAY lower than usual. but that's what the email said...</p>
<p>For the RD admit rate to fall to 4%, the number of RD applications would have to increase from 11,875 to around 16,000 - given the same anticipated RD yield rate. </p>
<p>This would mean an increase of nearly 35% in RD applications over last year. Possible, perhaps, but not likely.</p>
<p>they might incrase class by a bit this year since 125 is for next year. so 40 - 50 might not be shocking to me.</p>
<p>I don't think they can increase the class size by that much until new dorm space comes on line.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think they said class size increases won't start until next year. If it does occur, it'll be negligible (i.e. 1-50 people or so).</p>
<p>Byerly, applications RD to Princeton probably will increase:
- new recruitment strategies in place
- Common Application is now acceptable
- online (Common/Princeton) applications can be submitted
- and ED applications increased by about 10% from last year, so it follows that RD will increase by quite a bit too.</p>
<p>I expect RD apps will increase. The question is, however, whether the steep decline experienced last year will be entirely - or only partially - reversed.</p>
<p>ED apps were up for 2009, but not by nearly as much as they dropped for 2008. For the Class of 2007 there were 2,413 ED apps; last year, there were 1,815; this year, there were 2,039.</p>
<p>For the Class of 2007, there were 13,313 RD apps; last year, there were 11,875 RD apps; the number of RD apps this year is not yet known.</p>
<p>Oooh i really hope that the number of RD apps drops...</p>
<p>Oh well no point in daydreaming.</p>
<p>Don't hold your breath though =/</p>
<p>gg princeton.</p>
<p>3%?!</p>
<p><em>throws princeton dream out window</em></p>
<p>haha.
[sarcasm] I love this topic. [/sarcasm]</p>
<p>So...roughly 1 out of every 33 of us will make it in, eh? Blech.
U.Va., here I come.</p>