<p>Yale, which had the lowest acceptance rate in the country last year (and in 2004), accepted about 19% of early applicants this year, versus the 22% acceptance rate at Harvard and 26% at Princeton.</p>
<p>nice rounding. yale took 19.7% this year (up a full two percentage points from last year), while harvard took 21.5%, yet you round yale's 19.7 down to 19, but harvard's 21.5 up to 22.</p>
<p>Ouch! Someone's a wittle jeawous!</p>
<p>J/k, ah, the Yale-Harvard rivalry's already beginning!</p>
<p>f scottie is a princetonian, for what it's worth
and posterX is creepily devoted to yale
not unlike a lot of the posters on this forum for the last few months though!</p>
<p>What about deferral percentages?</p>
<p>Doesn't the number of applicants matter? Or are they similar across the board?</p>
<p>That's the point of a PERCENTAGE. :)</p>
<p>Princeton has much less early applicants than Harvard or Yale due to the fact that Princeton is Early Decision..</p>
<p>I believe Stanford took 16%</p>
<p>And MIT also very, very low. But they are not in the Ivy League, hence the point of this distorted comparison.</p>
<p>You guys are pathetic</p>
<p>^ you should support your statement with percentages.</p>
<p>74.5% of statistics are made up on the spot... =P</p>
<p>Yale's early acceptance rate is deceiving, though, because they have a really high (relatively, I suppose) rate for accepting deferred students--it was around 13% last year. So, if you think about it, over 30% of the students who apply early to Yale get in, whereas at Harvard, pretty much NO ONE who is deferred ends up getting in (mainly since they practically defer everyone, and it's essentially just a nice way of saying "good luck somewhere else").</p>
<p>Basically, it makes you wonder if Yale just accepts fewer kids early even though a lot more will ultimately get in for the sake of bragging about that low early acceptance rate. XD</p>
<p>or maybe because, ratings aside, they don't want to admit their entire class early, even though they could? There was a reason, given at least, for Princeton and Harvard dropping their early programs...</p>