YDN: Class of 2013 Stats

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<p>Yale</a> Daily News - Meet the freshmen</p>

<p>Some highlights:
-- Overall Admit Rate: 7.5%
-- SCEA Admit Rate: 13.4%
-- RD Admit Rate: 5.4%
-- Yield: 67.8%
-- Size: 1307 (652 female, 655 male, 7 from waitlist)
-- Public School Matriculants: 56.9%
-- "Of Color" Matriculants: 34.8% (big surge in Native American matriculants)
-- International: 11%
-- On Financial Aid: 59.4%
-- Median SAT Scores: Math 750, CR 750, Writing 750
(These appear to be the highest ever set of median scores for an entering class: <a href="http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W032_Fresh_SATs.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W032_Fresh_SATs.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

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<p>The Math 50th percentile is listed as 740, not 750.</p>

<p>Yale must be rounding up. It is not possible for its medians to be perfectly 750, 740, 750.</p>

<p>Regardless, no one doubts that strong students enroll at Yale.</p>

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<p>ugh, the admit rate keeps dropping so drastically…</p>

<p>i wonder if its ever going to ‘reverse-plateau’, because if the rate of decrease remains steady, i’ll have virtually no chance by the time i can apply</p>

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<p>Hopefully the economy might destroy these ivies in the next few years, affecting them somehow? It’s all hypothetical. I remember a teacher saying how the current Freshmen in High School (like the Class of 2013 or whatever) has a better chance of getting into selective colleges because they have a lot of dorms to fill because of the upsurge of the baby boomers, and how the population is slowly decreasing. I don’t really believe that, but O.K.</p>

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Read the article - medians were 750 in all sections</p>

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You are confusing averages with medians. A median will be an actual score, an even multiple of 10, which falls at the 50th percentile.</p>

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Current college-aged populations are equal to those of baby-boomers when they were college aged. Moreover interest in selective colleges has skyrocketed nationwide, so that applicant pools are far larger than they were. Selectivity for HYP in the 1970’s were in the 20+% range. They are now in single digits.</p>

<p>Of course, your teacher may merely have been saying that the current applicant pool is benefiting from the increased accommodation forced by the boomer expansion. This is probably true: things would be even tighter if all those facilities hadn’t been built in the 60’s and 70’s.</p>

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<p>Yeah. But my teacher was a little bit loopy, and I know for sure that she said they’d have a better chance, which I found illogical. Oh well.</p>

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<p>Informative article. Thanks for the link.</p>

<p>That RD acceptance rate is scary.</p>

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<p>Carin: the reverse is true about schools like Yale. Due to perceived increased competition due to tight econ situation, people will search out “name” schools like Y to give them any advantage. Don’t look for apps to Yale to drop back to 90s numbers. It’ll only continue steady upsurge due to common app “miracle hope” applicants and internationals.</p>

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<p>“Of Color” Matriculant? :(</p>

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<p>“of color” in Yale parlance is non-white, self-reporting ethnicity.</p>

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<p>im curious-- around how many people are waitlisted each year?</p>

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<p>Yale changed dramatically its WL procedure this last year. For 2013, the number of students on the waitlist fell to 769 applicants, down from 1,052 for the class of 2012.</p>

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<p>And they only admitted 7 off the WL this year.</p>

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<p>They only took 7…???</p>

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<p>That’s what the article says.</p>

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<p>yay for us.</p>