List of Acceptance Rates and Admit Profiles for this Year

[Anonymous]

Wellesley (19% acceptance rate): https://www.wellesley.edu/news/2018/stories/node/145966

Davidson (18.7% acceptance rate): https://www.davidson.edu/news/news-stories/180421-countdown-to-the-class-of-2022

Villanova (28.8% acceptance rate): https://admissionsintel.com/villanova-acceptance-rate-now-29-percent/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your purpose? The parents and students are crazed waiting for Ivy Day and the RDs from state universities, as it is. Also, you can't compare selectivity ratings across the board. A school that receives 36,000 applications is going to have different selectivity ratings than one that receives 2,000. A child's "Fit" to a college is the best determiner for success, not an artificial selectivity score. This unhealthy focus on selectivity and yield figures is the result of schools trying any trick possible to move their institution up one notch on USN&World Report stats.

I'll be using this thread to compile information about the selectivity of the application process at various schools this year

Some of us are interested in certain schools. I'm not trying to make comparative statements. I'm just posting compiling various schools where you can read up about what they were looking for this year. Some of us don't care for MIT, but do for Brown; some don't care for Williams, but do for Georgia Tech. I'll continue just posting links to the articles as they get posted in one thread. That's it. Chill out.

NP. Consider a hobby - perhaps volunteering?

[Anonymous]

The irony of you repeatedly commenting here posting completely useless drivel isn't lost on me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The irony of you repeatedly commenting here posting completely useless drivel isn't lost on me.

Eh. Compare the amount of time it takes to reply 4 words and the amount of time it takes to compile all of this information into a spreadsheet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The irony of you repeatedly commenting here posting completely useless drivel isn't lost on me.

DP, there are multiple of us telling you that you are really strange.

[Anonymous]

Northwestern hasn't posted their article yet, but sources suggest they admitted around 3250 this year out of 40,418 applicants (confirmed), making for a 8.0% acceptance rate.

I will add the official data if and when it comes out, but decisions were released a few hours ago.

[Anonymous]

Your UVA EA figure is wrong. The acceptance rate for EA dropped to 27.8% http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/01/uva-accepts-27-8-percent-of-early-action-applicants-for-class-of-2022

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your UVA EA figure is wrong. The acceptance rate for EA dropped to 27.8% http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/01/uva-accepts-27-8-percent-of-early-action-applicants-for-class-of-2022

The list posted comes from College Confidential and gets updated regularly as official stats come out.

[Anonymous]

This thread is incredibly unhelpful. Who would base their decision to apply to a school on this meaningless drivel? It is only interesting from a position of curiosity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is incredibly unhelpful. Who would base their decision to apply to a school on this meaningless drivel? It is only interesting from a position of curiosity.

I think a fair number of people consider acceptance rates when applying, among other factors. If it was relevant (drivel) then why do they publish it.

[Anonymous]

While I enjoy reading this, your school’s Naviance is a much more accurate source/snapshot of your child’s chances at admission. Reading the common data set is also very helpful. This is like reading about your chances of dying by lightning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is incredibly unhelpful. Who would base their decision to apply to a school on this meaningless drivel? It is only interesting from a position of curiosity.

I think it's helpful to kids trying to put together lists of near-certainty, match, reach, crapshoot (which to me is anything with an acceptance rate below 20%).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is incredibly unhelpful. Who would base their decision to apply to a school on this meaningless drivel? It is only interesting from a position of curiosity.

I think it's helpful to kids trying to put together lists of near-certainty, match, reach, crapshoot (which to me is anything with an acceptance rate below 20%).

Like PP said, your Naviance or common data set would be more helpful than overall stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is incredibly unhelpful. Who would base their decision to apply to a school on this meaningless drivel? It is only interesting from a position of curiosity.

? It's a relevant piece of information. What interests me are the trends over time. Many of the best schools are getting sooo selective. Not sure why, but this was a tough year for many highly qualified applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is incredibly unhelpful. Who would base their decision to apply to a school on this meaningless drivel? It is only interesting from a position of curiosity.

? It's a relevant piece of information. What interests me are the trends over time. Many of the best schools are getting sooo selective. Not sure why, but this was a tough year for many highly qualified applicants.

Does it? Or is it merely a reflection of the school’s marketing machine getting kids to apply since it is so much easier nowadays? We see schools whose admission rate dropped due to an extra essay and what do they do? They remove the essay so they can get more applications to make themselves seem more selective. USWR should really drop admission % from their ranking methodology. A low admission % alone is not an indication on how good a school is or its fit for your child.