<p>According to the waitlisted letter I got, 4,971 students applied for 480 spots. That's less than a 10% acceptance rate- isn't that ridiculous for Macalester?</p>
<p>it is!!!!!</p>
<p>yeah but macalester does not have a particularly large matriculation rate and therefore they must accept a lot more students than they expect to matriculate in the fall.</p>
<p>4971 students applied
480 spots in the 2011 class</p>
<p>??? students got admittance letters - less than 4971 but more than 480</p>
<p>I feel like I've read that in past years Mac has accepted somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of applicants but I don't have the numbers on hand. That said, it's definitely becoming more competitive, of course, so is everywhere else.</p>
<p>dat doenst mean mac only accepted 480 students lol
only about 30-40% admitted students do actually attend mac
so do the calculation!!</p>
<p>the rejection letter said they turned down two out of three applicants.</p>
<p>Last year I think Mac accepted 39% of its applicants.</p>
<p>after reading this thread is seems ridiculous that I'm even considering attending a college that accepts 83% of students when I got accepted to Macalester...</p>