Class of 2029 Acceptance Rates

[Anonymous]

BC ED acceptance rate was reported to be 33%. 60%+ of the class was filled early.

BC and several others are great schools, but kids worried about acceptance rate as the gauge of prestige should look a level deeper, including CDS data. GPA ranges. Class rank distribution. ED/RD. % submitting scores.

They will find some of the ‘most popular’ schools have similar or worse academic profiles than others with far fewer applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

|Caltech|\~2.3%| required
|Stanford|\~3.9%| required
|Harvard|\~4.2%| required
|Columbia|4.3%| TO
|Duke|4.5%| TO
|MIT|4.5%| required
|Princeton|\~4.5%| TO
|Yale|4.6%| required
|UPenn|\~4.9%| required
|Vanderbilt|\~5.6%| TO
|Brown|5.7%| required
|Dartmouth|6%| required
|Johns Hopkins|\~6%| required
|Bowdoin|\~6.8%| TO
|Northwestern|7%| TO
|Pomona|\~7.2%| TO
|Amherst|7.4%| TO
|Swarthmore|7.4%| TO
|NYU|7.7%| TO
|Rice|7.8%| TO
|Cornell|\~8.4%| TO
|Williams|8.5%| TO
|UCLA|\~8.6%| TO
|Notre Dame|9%| TO
|Claremont McKenna|\~9.4%| TO
|USC|10.4%| TO
|Berkeley|\~10.5%| TO
|Tufts|10.5%| TO
|CMU|\~11%| TO
|Georgetown|12.2%| required
|Harvey Mudd|\~12.3%| TO
|WashU|\~12.5%| TO
|Boston College|12.6%| TO
|Georgia Tech|12.7%| required
|Wellesley|13.7%| TO
|Emory|14.9%| TO
|UNC|\~15.1%| TO
|UMich|\~15.2%| TO
|UVA|15.4%| TO

Why do they all publish acceptance rates before the cycle is complete? If they have to take students off of waitlist, the rate will change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYU with a lower acceptance rate than Cornell is laughable. Anyone who has ever been through this process knows how rigged these numbers are.

NYU doesn't count a full quarter of the incoming class in the reported stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UT Austin is believed to have been about 5% for OOS this year, with a 48% increase in OOS applications.

But 40% for in state….

[Anonymous]

https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYU with a lower acceptance rate than Cornell is laughable. Anyone who has ever been through this process knows how rigged these numbers are.

NYU doesn't count a full quarter of the incoming class in the reported stats.

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Cornell also has guaranteed 2nd year transfer program and they do not count.
This is common in many many schools.

[Anonymous]

At our private, NYU takes huge numbers of middle-of-the-class students ED. Cornell does not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our private, NYU takes huge numbers of middle-of-the-class students ED. Cornell does not.

Yes, at our Big3 my kids attend, NYU is also a school that routinely takes kids in the lower 50% of the class. I don't know to which school within NYU--I know they vary in difficulty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our private, NYU takes huge numbers of middle-of-the-class students ED. Cornell does not.

Would be true for all program, including business?

[Anonymous]

What’s the source? Several schools on the list have not reported their numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberty University 99%

1% had their credit card rejected...but they still count the application.

+1. Liberty U—. You pay ( or take out loans— here, we’ll help) you play.

Did you know Liberty was the largest user of federal student loan money in the US (at least as of 2-3 years ago)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No surprise UVA being the least selective of them all. It’s not in the same league.

From Dean J's blog, this year's cycle:

Overall Admission Statistics
Total applications: 64,463 (58,995 last year)
Total VA applications: 17,608 (16,455)
Total OOS applications: 46,855 (42,540)

Overall VA acceptance rate: 23% (25.5%)
Overall OOS acceptance rate: 12.5% (13%)

So, if 2/3 of the class is in state (it is), acceptance rate is about 19% (maybe a bit lower b/c OOS is lower yield). Which is great. And I would accept that in state applicant self select because they have a decent idea if they are competitive. But OP is still full of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC ED acceptance rate was reported to be 33%. 60%+ of the class was filled early.

BC and several others are great schools, but kids worried about acceptance rate as the gauge of prestige should look a level deeper, including CDS data. GPA ranges. Class rank distribution. ED/RD. % submitting scores.

They will find some of the ‘most popular’ schools have similar or worse academic profiles than others with far fewer applicants.

+1. Bates is the one that stuck with from DD’s year (2022 HS grad). Low admit rate. But above 50% admit rate in ED, and filled about 80% of their class from ED. Then uber-low RD rate, because they had like 8 seats left for all of RD. I mean… come on. I believe in love the kids that love you, love the school that loves you back. But that’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

|Caltech|\~2.3%| required
|Stanford|\~3.9%| required
|Harvard|\~4.2%| required
|Columbia|4.3%| TO
|Duke|4.5%| TO
|MIT|4.5%| required
|Princeton|\~4.5%| TO
|Yale|4.6%| required
|UPenn|\~4.9%| required
|Vanderbilt|\~5.6%| TO
|Brown|5.7%| required
|Dartmouth|6%| required
|Johns Hopkins|\~6%| required
|Bowdoin|\~6.8%| TO
|Northwestern|7%| TO
|Pomona|\~7.2%| TO
|Amherst|7.4%| TO
|Swarthmore|7.4%| TO
|NYU|7.7%| TO
|Rice|7.8%| TO
|Cornell|\~8.4%| TO
|Williams|8.5%| TO
|UCLA|\~8.6%| TO
|Notre Dame|9%| TO
|Claremont McKenna|\~9.4%| TO
|USC|10.4%| TO
|Berkeley|\~10.5%| TO
|Tufts|10.5%| TO
|CMU|\~11%| TO
|Georgetown|12.2%| required
|Harvey Mudd|\~12.3%| TO
|WashU|\~12.5%| TO
|Boston College|12.6%| TO
|Georgia Tech|12.7%| required
|Wellesley|13.7%| TO
|Emory|14.9%| TO
|UNC|\~15.1%| TO
|UMich|\~15.2%| TO
|UVA|15.4%| TO

Why do they all publish acceptance rates before the cycle is complete? If they have to take students off of waitlist, the rate will change.

that's not how any of this works

[Anonymous]

I really am not sure what the point of the OP post is....