<p>Okay, I definitely did not hear this from a reputable source, but I was told that Yale is planning on accepting a slightly larger percentage of it's applicants from next year (class of 2013) forward. </p>
<p>Anyways, I wanted to know if any CCers out there have heard anything that would support this. Personally, I can't imagine this happening.</p>
<p>That is silly.
What is true is that slightly more students will be accepted once the two new residential colleges are built...in a few years.</p>
<p>It doesn't seem silly to me. Wouldn't all privates be accepting more applicants due to the terrible condition of our economy and that many people don't have money right now?</p>
<p>YES! They are building more residential colleges = more students! too bad it won't come in time for me</p>
<p>glasstiger: I can believe that SOME privates are admitting a tiny bit more due to vagaries of their predicted yield. However, Yale isn't one of them. Their projections have been very spot on for many years. It helps that they're near the top of the food chain as far as yield goes so it makes it easy to predict.</p>
<p>Yale is predicting more apps this year -- so how could it admit even more percentage? If anything, they may end up admitting a smaller rate than last year just due to the sheer no. of applicants.</p>
<p>If they do, I can't imagine it being too much... like +1%?</p>
<p>I love how this thread implies that Yale controls its acceptance rate.</p>
<p>lolol. meh</p>
<p>people graduating these years still benefit. even though the new residential colleges arent completed yet, yale is graduate increasing its enrollment these years before then. so one year wont suddenly have like 500 more freshmen, but now each year can have maybe 150 more kids.</p>
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people graduating these years still benefit. even though the new residential colleges arent completed yet, yale is graduate increasing its enrollment these years before then. so one year wont suddenly have like 500 more freshmen, but now each year can have maybe 150 more kids.
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<p>That's actually not true at all. How can you gradually add more kids if there's no room to put them? There's definitely no room here to "gradually" add in more freshman. The residential colleges as they are right now are overcrowded. The freshman class will increase by about 200 students (the target number) the year the new colleges open.</p>
<p>yea im an idiot -__-</p>
<p>yeah, when they open the colleges, then theyll start expanding the undergraduate population. but heck, id wanna see what a good 200 students more would have done for me D:</p>
<p>I heard it's going down sharply this year for SCEA because of:</p>
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<li><p>More applicants</p></li>
<li><p>Less people will be admitted in this round because several people who got in to yale SCEA last year waited for Harvard/Princeton and decided to go to one of those two.</p></li>
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