<p>From the Yale Daily News:
The total number of applications for the Class of 2011 decreased 9.7 percent from last year, Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel announced Thursday.
Yale received 19,060 applications this year, compared to the record-high 21,101 for the Class of 2010. </p>
<p>i wonder if they'll accept less people because of this..just a thought...or maybe yale will have a higher acceptance rate this year</p>
<p>I think they won't accept fewer people though - I mean, if they accept fewer, then the rate is still gonna be low. If they say that the low acceptance rate is a plausible factor this year, why would they want to discourage applicants for next year?</p>
<p>Cool! All the better for everyone, applicants and admissions :)</p>
<p>I doubt they will accept fewer people... the same amount of spots are still present.So, they will accept the same amount of people even though the applications went down -- the acceptance rate is going to go up, but the number of people accepted will probably stay the same.</p>
<p>These statistics are rather useless...it doesn't say what segment(s) of the applicant pool decreased in size. For all we know, the lowest tier of the applicant pool got scared away by the 5.8% RD acceptance rate last year...meaning this year's pool is concentrated with strong applicants...woo!! That would make it even tougher. Self-selection is only one way to read this situation of course...it's certainly the most pessimistic scenario :)</p>
<p>MallomarCookie has a good point.</p>
<p>MallomarCookie - you raised a valid point. But like Brown man said, the same number of spots will still be there. And I think Yale definitely wants to pull up its acceptance rate a little bit (just a little bit, so they are still "highly selective") for next year.</p>
<p>Goody, possibly less competition.</p>
<p>Yale deferred more early applicants this year than they did the year before. They rejected early 30% last year, and only 20% this year, deferring eveyone else. Last year about 250 of those deferred were ultilmately accepted. While there are more deferred applicants this year, I do believe that Yale will accept a larger number of deferred applicant in the spring than they did last year. I believe they deferred a larger number so that their rejection rate was not so low as last year as to turn down future early applicants. Also, they may wonder if their yield will be affected (ie percent accept that come) since early applications are down. I do think they will take more from the deferred pool this year in previous years as they are more likely to come if accepted.
While the regular decision accepance rate is low (it is much lower than published since the published figure of 8 or 9% is an average of the early rate and regular decision rate) - there are thousands of appilcants who throw in an application when they are really not contenders. I would guess that of the almost 20,000 applicants, only 10,000 probably have the grades and scores to be competitive.</p>
<p>RD acceptance is 5 to 6% (5.something)</p>
<p>woot! hey JP321, I'm from az, too!</p>
<p>Assuming we subtract 250 admissions (for deferred EA people) from the 1150 they say they'll be taking, the acceptance rate will be about 5.8% for people who applied RD. At least it didn't go down any.</p>
<p>How big is Yale's freshman class? I thought it was around 1300 students.</p>
<p>Freshman class tends to be around 1300, w/ ~1700-1800 admits including EA. My guess is that well over 80% of those who apply are qualified. Some of the admit decisions must be incredibly difficult! Also, last year was just too scary! But it is understandable, bcuz YALE is just amazing... and really, it's the people!</p>
<p>weird how penn's increased by 10% while yale's decreased by 10%...</p>
<p>A couple of additional articles on this from the Yale Daily News:</p>
<p>I agree with Collegebound5. Admissions people are always saying that 80% of the applicants are qualfied to do the work...but that doesn't mean that 80% are truly competitive. I am sure that kids who score in the 650-700 SAT range across the board are able to do the work, but without any other mitigating factors (disadvantages of some sort, for example) those scores aren't terribly competitive. So, there probably really aren't AS many competitive applicants as they claim...the competitive applicant RD acceptance rate might be more like 10%! :)</p>
<p>On another note, as a deferree, I sure hope that they take more of us this year! It is tough to say, though, why apps went down. If I had to guess, I would imagine that fewer "maybe, but really long shot" candidates applied. These are candidates who are a step above the "lottery ticket" type applicants, but still aren't terribly competitive. In previous years, they felt like they might have had a shot, but the low acceptance rate convinced them otherwise and they since they were never the lottery ticket-types, they didn't apply. That's just my random speculation, though...</p>
<p>Bingcold, where did you hear that Penn's increased by 10%?</p>
<p>Penn 10%
Princeton 8%
Columbia 7%
Harvard 3%</p>
<p>Increases.</p>
<p>So far, Yale is the only (Ivy) school whose app pool has dropped- and a LOT at that.</p>