Admit Rates/Yields at Top 25 LACs '16-'17
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Thought some people might be interested in the most up-to-date data. Some facts not included due to lacking CDS '16-'17. Military U's excluded. And some assorted facts at the end.
Admit Rates/Yields (Y)-- Claremont McKenna: 9.4% (9.9% of males, 9.1% of females), 53.6 Y Pomona: 9.4% (12.4% M, 7.6% F), 53.7 Y Swarthmore: 12.8% (14.8 M, 11.4 F), 42 Y Harvey Mudd: 12.9% (9.5 M, 20 F), 40.1 Y Amherst: 13.8% (16 M, 12 F), 40.6 Y Bowdoin: 14.8% (16.6 M, 13.6 F), 49.9 Y Colorado: 16% (17.5 M, 16 F), 42.2 Y Middlebury: 16.1% (18.9 M, 14.1 F), 42.6 Y Williams: 17.5%, 45.4 Y Wesleyan: 17.8% (20.4 M, 16.2 F), 36.4 Y Colby: 18.7% Davidson: 20.1% (22.2 M, 18.5 F), 45.5 Y Haverford: 21.4%, 40.3 Y Carleton: 22.6% (24.2 M, 21.3 F), 38.7 Y Washington and Lee: 23.6% (24.4 M, 22.8 F), 38.7 Y Hamilton: 26.1%, 34.8 Y Vassar: 26.9%, 33.6 Y Oberlin: 28% (29.9 M, 26.8 F), 31.9 Y Wellesley: 28%, 43 Y Colgate: 28.7%, 32.2 Y Scripps: 29.8%, 29.9 Y Macalester: 37.1% (36 M, 37.8 F), 22.9 Y Smith: 37.2%, 33.4 Y Top 5 RD Yields (% RD Admits Who Enrolled): Pomona- 37.8% Bowdoin- 34.5% Williams- 31.7% Amherst- 29.7% Harvey Mudd- 28.9% Lowest Early Acceptance Rates: Harvey Mudd- 18.3% Pomona- 19.5% Bowdoin- 27.2% Colorado- 28.1% Claremont McKenna- 31.9% Top 5 w/ students ranking in top 10% of Class (of those submitting rank): Haverford- 94% Pomona- 92% Williams- 92% Swarthmore- 91% Mudd- 88% Top 5 Median SAT: Mudd- 2215 Amherst- 2190 Williams- 2180 Pomona- 2160 Swarthmore- 2135 Top 5 Retention Rates: Harvey Mudd- 98% Swarthmore- 97.5% Williams- 97% Pomona- 96.75% Colorado- 96.05% Top 5 Six Year Graduation Rates: Pomona- 97% Williams- 96% Bowdoin- 94.5% Swarthmore- 94.1% Amherst- 93.5% Top 5 in Percent of First Year Class that is a Student of Color or International Student: Pomona- 61.3% Mudd- 58.4% Amherst- 55.2% Swarthmore- 53.7% Claremont McKenna- 51.4% |
Anonymous
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Interesting data--source?
Also, pretty hard to get in as a woman |
Anonymous
| Common Data Set for the most current year. Just search something like "[College Name] Common Data Set" and you'll see it on the first link or so. These statistics come from the most current year- '16-'17. |
Anonymous
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Forgot to include this. This is the RD Acceptance Rate (after taking out the early numbers). Yes, Claremont McKenna is as hard as some of the top ivies to get into.
Claremont 6.7% Pomona 8.0% Swarthmore 10.9% Mudd 12.2% Amherst 12.3% Middlebury 13.0% Bowdoin 13.0% Colorado 14.2% Williams 15.2% Wesleyan 15.6% Davidson 16.9% Carleton 18.9% W&L 21.1% Oberlin 26.1% Scripps 28.0% Smith 35.4% Macalester 36.3% |
Anonymous
| These are all good schools no matter the numbers. |
Anonymous
| The median sat's seem really low. Is it because at lac's such a % are recruited athletes and/or hooked? |
Anonymous
They are not low. |
Anonymous
Except if you're a woman applying to a more engineering oriented school, see Harvey Mudd. |
Anonymous
It's pretty high. Amherst for instance reports 680-780 on each section, which means a quarter of their class gets a 780 or higher on each section. But it is lower than the tippy top universities. LACs tend to be more holistic than universities, so scores aren't that critical. Amherst for instance turns down 75% of students scoring an 800 on SAT Reading, and Pomona around 80% of those with ACTs 34-36, even though its own range is 30-34. There's a lot of factors at stake. Schools like Pomona and Amherst, with over 55% students of colors and international students, as well as ranking in the top 10 for economic diversity compared to the high stat universities which don't even rank, admit students who have lower scores over unhooked applicants with much higher ones. URMs, first gen and low income college students, students from underrepresented geographic backgrounds, and athletes don't tend to test as highly, though of course there are exceptions. Caltech, the school with the highest median (2280), doesn't look for these factors to the same extent in its admission process. Asians, who have the highest average SAT of any racial group, make up 40%+ of their student body, compared to 15-20% at Amherst/Pomona. URM numbers are 16% compared to 30% at A/P. 8% of Caltech students are first gen compared to 15-20% at top LACs. In QuestBridge, a low-income application of which both Pomona and Caltech are partners, Pomona enrolls nearly 60-70 Quest students each year compared to 5-10 at Caltech, even though it's only 1.63x bigger. |
Anonymous
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Another important point- the difference between the admitting and enrolling students are to be mentioned as well. Here's what Amherst reports as its admitted student ranges:
Critical Reading 710-800; Math 700-800; Writing 700-790. However, Amherst and the other top LACs, which share applicant pools with HYPS, lose the majority of applicants admitted to both schools, at a ratio Parchment indicates of around 85:15 HYPS to WASP. So when they do admit a high scoring URM, it's likely that student will enroll at a top university. They do have the highest yields in the nation- 81% at both Stanford and Harvard. |
Anonymous
| This is great information. Thank you for sharing. |
Anonymous
| I did the calculations and Pomona's RD yield is higher than Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, Northwestern, and others. That's very impressive for a small liberal arts college. I wonder why it has a much higher yield? RD yield isn't something that is easily manipulable, unlike total yield which can be influenced with ED statistics (hence why CMC is so high, almost 70% of their class was filled with ED applicants) |
Anonymous
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Also, while there isn't a breakdown of the data, I was interested in the female RD acceptance rate at Pomona given it's already so low overall. Here's an estimate:
4979 apps from women 379 women accepted 1004 early apps 196 total accepted early 61.5% of Pomona's total apps come from females, so let's say 617 early apps from females. And that there's a 50:50 ratio for early acceptances, ie. 98 apps. (379-98)/(4979-617) x 100 = 6.4% RD acceptance rate for females applying to Pomona |
Anonymous
| Are you an alum or trying to make yourself feel better that your kid was just rejected by HYPS? |
Anonymous
THIS. Admitted versus Enrolled stats would be interesting to compare. |