<p>Hello? I am graduating in 2013, and i want to apply to Brown, people are saying the acceptance rate will go Up to like 30-40% because not many people are grad. from high school anymore. is this true? Will it drop, increase, or stay the same?</p>
<p>It seems highly inaccurate.
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<p>Sounds highly improbable to me.</p>
<p>If, as you say, fewer people will be graduating from high school in 2 years, then fewer people would apply to colleges. As such, acceptance rates would still hover at the same levels.</p>
<p>Also, please justify your claim, since what “people say” isn’t terribly convincing. :)</p>
<p>The last time Brown’s acceptance rate was above 30% was, I think, more than 35 years ago. I don’t think that’s going to happen again. </p>
<p>Right now admissions is predicting an increase in applications this year, which would translate into a lower acceptance rate this year. Even if applications fell next year the rate wouldn’t go up by more than a couple percentage points, if even that.</p>
<p>^harpoonerism
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[Ivy</a> League Acceptance Rates for 2010](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/b/2010/04/04/ivy-league-acceptance-rates-for-2010.htm]Ivy”>Yield in the College Admissions Process)
Here is what i found: </p>
<p>For students who have their hearts set on attending an Ivy League university, the numbers for 2010 are discouraging. Every one of the eight prestigious schools has seen its acceptance rate either remain the same or drop. Here’s what the numbers look like in 2010:</p>
<pre><code>* Brown: 9.3% (see the Brown press release)
- Columbia: 9% (reported at Bloomberg.com)
- Cornell: 18% (see the Cornell Daily Sun article)
- Dartmouth: 11.5% (see the Dartmouth press release)
- Harvard: 6.9% (see the Harvard Crimson article)
- Penn: 14.2% (see the Daily Pennsylvanian article)
- Princeton: 8.2 (see the Princeton press release)
- Yale: 7.5% (see the Yale Daily News article)
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<p>The full story for the class of 2014 has not yet been written – there’s a lot of uncertainty because of the economy, and many universities are creating large waitlists in case they don’t get the yield they are expecting.</p>
<p>For students in the class of 2015 and beyond, the picture might get a little more hopeful. The number of students graduating from high schools in the U.S. is entering a period of decline.</p>
<p>Actually - if you look at birth rates, a high amount of kids will be graduating (not a high percentage of kids but a high amount) therefore acceptance rate will lower. Also, more kids are applying to more and more schools these days, thus the acceptance rate is likely to drop.</p>
<p>Fly2thesky: you’re out of the loop on application trends. The huge boost in apps (and decline in admit rate) is mostly due to the common app and schools’ getting their name out into the minds of more and more potential applicants. Even if the pool of graduating seniors declines, more and more seniors hear about Brown and drop in an app – thereby decreasing its admit rate.</p>