<p>"Yale received a record-high total of 29,790 applications this year for the class of 2017.</p>
<p>In line with annual growth in application numbers spanning the past decade, this year’s application total marks a 3 percent increase over last year’s application count of 28,977. Because Yale expects to admit the same total number of students as it did last year — approximately 2,000 — the acceptance rate this year should drop “a bit below” last year’s 7.1 percent acceptance rate, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said. Yale received 4,520 applications for its early action round this year, out of which it accepted 649 students, or 14.4 percent."</p>
<p>29,790 apps total. 1,950 is the usual admit goal total. Overall admit rate 6.5%</p>
<p>SCEA had 4,520 apps, 649 admits, 1302 rejects/withdraws, the rest (2,569) deferred or incomplete. Assuming this gets added to the RD round: 29,790 - 4,520 + 2,569 = 27,839 apps being considered for RD round. </p>
<p>1,950 total spots - 649 SCEA admits = 1,301 available slots. </p>
<p>For pending apps, the admit rate is 1,301 / 27,839= ~4.7% admit rate.</p>
And, although it is impossible to say exactly without the exact gender breakdown of the pool, this probably means about 5.1% male and 4.3% female admit rates.</p>
<p>litotes – these are pending (read: as soon as I get some time). Sorry it’s taking longer than usual. I hope to have something by the end of the month.</p>
<p>Bayrunner: the 1301 remaining slots and the 649 SCEA admits assumes yield. The total admits of 1950 goes towards a goal of ~1250 actual matriculants.</p>
<p>Sorry that I omitted this fact in post #2. Every year, the goal is to seat 1,250 incoming freshmen (less any gap year folks from the previous class).</p>
<p>I wonder how many of these applicants are applying knowing they have pretty much no chance and are thus deflating the acceptance rate (I know a couple but I imagine it can’t be too high… unfortunately)</p>
I think this is a good question–and I don’t think it matters too much whether they know it or not. The stats don’t mean as much if there are a significant number of applicants who (to an educated observer) would have no chance of admittance.</p>
<p>I bet there are a significant number of applicants – and I know several each year – who apply to HYP, and often additional Ivies, because their parents are fixated on name-brand schools and insist upon it. I also knew some kids last year who applied to a thoughtful list of schools and threw in an additional Ivy app or two “for the heck of it.” I suspect Yale gets quite a few “What the heck” or “Dad made me” apps from students unlikely to be accepted.</p>
<p>^^ I also suspect that many students apply to HYP because of their generous financial aid policies. Since 2007, when each of the schools increased financial aid to the middle class, applications to all three schools have grown enormously. For some middle class families, like mine, it’s cheaper to send their kid to HYP than their flagship state school – if your kid can get in!</p>
<p>^ Last time I asked this of an admissions officer I was told that perhaps 15% of the apps were clear rejects and that the vast majority were truly vying for those spots. If you carve out the acceptances of deferred candidates that eventually get admitted at a higher rate than RD applicants, the numbers are even bleaker for the RD applicant.</p>