List of Acceptance Rates and Admit Profiles for this Year

[Anonymous]

I'll be using this thread to compile information about the selectivity of the application process at various schools this year, and would welcome additions to schools I did not include. Hope this info is useful to prospective parents/applicants. Will add more schools as they officially release information. These acceptance rates include early and regular candidates, but not transfer candidates.

MIT (6.7% acceptance rate): http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-regular-action-decisions-now-available-online5

Johns Hopkins (9.9% acceptance rate): https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/03/15/hopkins-class-of-2022-regular-decision/

WashU (15% acceptance rate): https://admissions.wustl.edu/apply_site/Pages/Profile.aspx

University of Southern California (13% acceptance rate): http://news.usc.edu/137436/4129-nikias-embraces-university-values-and-inclusion-in-presidential-address/

Tulane (17% acceptance rate): https://news.tulane.edu/news/class-2022-welcomes-world%E2%80%99s-best-and-brightest

Georgia Tech (23.1% acceptance rate): http://www.news.gatech.edu/2017/03/11/increased-interest-tech-prevails-2017-class

University of Georgia (47.9% acceptance rate): http://gradynewsource.uga.edu/blog/2018/03/19/university-georgia-class-2022-admit-numbers/

Swarthmore (9.1% acceptance rate): https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/980-students-admitted-to-swarthmore-class-2022

Pomona (6.9% acceptance rate): https://www.pomona.edu/news/2018/03/16-introducing-pomona-college-class-2022

Williams (12.1% acceptance rate): https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/3_16_2018_admittedstudents/

[Anonymous]

Isn't there already enough stress on this forum? This info is readily available elsewhere, like College Confidential. Why here? and why are you doing this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't there already enough stress on this forum? This info is readily available elsewhere, like College Confidential. Why here? and why are you doing this?

What do you mean stress? It's just info. And I'm sure it is, but there's a space for conversation here too.

If you don't want to look at it, don't. You don't have to click on a topic or respond. It's very clear what the subject matter of this conversation is.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Macalester- (no acceptance rate listed- likely around ~1500/5985, or 25%): https://www.macalester.edu/admittedstudents/classprofile/

University of Florida (38.1% acceptance rate): http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/blog/2017/02/27/admitted-class-profile.html

Harvey Mudd (14.5% acceptance rate): https://www.hmc.edu/admission/2018/03/16/today-is-the-day-3/

[Anonymous]

Whoops, my apologies- 1500 is the number of women admitted, not total students. The total number including men is usually around 2300, making the acceptance rate closer to 38%. When I see the final official number, I will re-add, but those interested in Macalester might still be interested in seeing the class of 2022 profile all the same.

[Anonymous]

Boston University (22% acceptance rate): https://www.bu.edu/admissions/about-bu/profile/

[Anonymous]

MIT RD (including 6,210 deferred from EA) 800 out of 18,359 (4.4%)
MIT Total (RD+EA) 1,464 out of 21,706 (6.7%)
MIT EA 664 out of 9,557 (6.9%) (65.0% deferred, 26.1% denied, 1.9% withdrawn)
Pomona Total (RD+ED) 713 out of 10,245 (6.9%)
Swarthmore Total (ED+RD) 980 out of 10749 (9.1%)
Johns Hopkins Total (RD+ED) 2,894 out of 29,128 (9.9%)
Georgetown EA 1,002 out of 8,383 (12.0%)
Williams Total (RD+ED) 1,163 out of 9,559 (12.2%)
Harvard SCEA 964 out of 6,630 (14.5%)
Harvey Mudd Total (RD+ED) (14.5%)
Princeton SCEA 799 out of 5,402 (14.7%)
Yale SCEA 842 out of 5733 (14.7%) (55% deferred, 29% denied, 2% withdrawn/incomplete)
WashU Total (RD+ED) (15%)
Tulane Overall ~6,598 out of 38,813 (17%)
UNC Chapel Hill EA (Out of State) 2,742 out of ~15,233 (18%)
Penn ED 1,312 out of 7,074 (18.5%)
Rice ED 371 out of 1,916 (19.4%) (includes 51 matched QuestBridge)
Vanderbilt EDI+EDII (20.5%)
Brown ED 738 out of 3,502 (21.1%)
Duke ED 875 out of 4,090 (21.4%)
UVA EA (Out of State) 3,382 out of 15,676 (21.6%)
U.S. Coast Guard Academy EA 189 out of 834 (22.7%)
Cornell ED 1,533 out of 6,319 (24.3%)
Notre Dame REA 1,636 out of 6,598 (24.8%)
Dartmouth ED 565 out of 2,270 (24.9%) (includes 26 matched QuestBridge)
Emory (Oxford) ED1 223 out of ~892 (25%)
Georgia Tech EA 4,677 out of 18,124 (25.8%) (46% in state, 19% out of state)
Northwestern ED 1,072 out of 4,049 (26.5%)
UVA EA (Overall) 6,000 out of 21,573 (27.8%)(24.6% deferred)
Hamilton ED1 191 out of 647 (29.5%) (includes 25 matched QuestBridge)
Johns Hopkins ED 610 out of 2,037 (29.9%)
UNC Chapel Hill EA (Overall) 7,867 out of 25,867 (30.4%)
Boston College EA 3,170 out of 10,350 (30.6%)
Tulane ED 562 out of 1,819 (30.9%)
Emory (Emory) ED1 503 out of ~1,623 (31%)
Florida Overall 14,866 out of 40,849 (36.4%)
Wesleyan ED1 279 out of 718 (38.9%)
Emory (Emory and/or Oxford) ED1 726 out of > 1,700 (< 42.7%) (includes 30 matched QuestBridge)
UVA EA (In State) 2,618 out of 5,897 (44.4%)
UNC Chapel Hill EA (In State) 5,125 out of ~10,677 (48%)
Middlebury ED1 326 out of 650 (50.2%) (6% deferred, 43.8% denied)
Georgia EA > 8,000 out of nearly 15,000 (> 53.3)

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html

[Anonymous]

The colleges need to get together and come up with a more sensible admission system. The current system stresses the kids, makes the size of the incoming class have large fluctuations, and drives the schools to unethical behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html

This is sooo funny!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html

In the comments section, a reader with great foresight wrote:

Very clever to get a head start on April fools so that your brilliant hoax doesn't get overshadowed by someone else's! Be careful, though. You may give Donald Trump a new idea for his next university scheme--admit just one or two people to make it look exclusive and then reap the majority of profits from rich people bribing him to let their kids attend.Very clever to get a head start on April fools so that your brilliant hoax doesn't get overshadowed by someone else's! Be careful, though. You may give Donald Trump a new idea for his next university scheme--admit just one or two people to make it look exclusive and then reap the majority of profits from rich people bribing him to let their kids attend.

[Anonymous]

Here's the thing: The combined ED/RD (or in the case of some schools,ED/ED2/EA/ED with lettuce and tomato) doesn't tell you much about what lies ahead for kids still waiting to hear from schools, because in general, the ED rates are much higher than the average and the RD rates are lower. Not to freak out anyone coming here for reassurance.

As someone who used to pee on pregnancy tests at the first implantation cramp, I know obsessing won't change the outcome, and I am hiding all my fretting from my kid. And yet here I am, on the stats thread.

[Anonymous]

So I checked out scattergrams on a few ivies on naviance and my conclusion is that a whole bunch of kids have unrealistic expectations when they apply.

They are good schools, of course, but the acceptance rates at least partially reflect fluff.