Class of 2029 Acceptance Rates

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Are these the top hardest to get into or a selection overall?

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

And I was proud of my DC for being accepted to Stern ... which now seems like an easy admit!

Stern is not an easy admit. But ED is definitely beneficial at NYU

Stern and Tisch are surely difficult admits but the original point was that NYU having a lower acceptance rate than Cornell is...deceptive.

True then it evolved into how mid 50 range students are accepted at NYU

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Anonymous wrote:Are these the top hardest to get into or a selection overall?

Who would you think would be harder or more selective? I wouldn’t think there is a niche school, but if there is I’m unaware.

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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)?

Well, it has a total enrollment of 140,000.

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|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.

yes, especially at the tiny schools like small LACs.

Any school. It is simple math. None of these are final rates.

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People, these "stats" were compiled by a high schooler on Reddit. That is where this comes from. He estimated some by things admissions offers said on tours and accepted student days.

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

It is a preview generated by a person that pulled all the info all college websites and posts by schools and compiled. From Reddit. The official final data not out yet. But these is interesting as a preview and as folks say popular schools are popular and hard to get into schools are hard to get into. So no surprises here.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the difference between this and last year?

The test required ivies are up slightly due to less applications.

Covid forced 100% of universities to go “test optional” (TO) temporarily, because the SAT could not be administered.

When TO happened, applications to all universities across the board went up by 40%.

The use of the common app partially facilitated that 40% increase.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems pretty selective to me! Someone on here really hates UVA. Same admissions as Michigan +/- and not far off of Emory. My DC got into USC, UNC and UVA and chose UVA. Great education at half the price.

Emorys acceptance rate is 9 percent. The 14.9 includes Oxford, which is Emorys satellite campus, should we include UVa wise into UVa as that is its satellite campus? You're misrepresenting the facts.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the difference between this and last year?

The test required ivies are up slightly due to less applications.

Covid forced 100% of universities to go “test optional” (TO) temporarily, because the SAT could not be administered.

When TO happened, applications to all universities across the board went up by 40%.

The use of the common app partially facilitated that 40% increase.

+1 and the schools that went back to test required predictably saw a decline in apps- but all of those apps coming in had top stats. The kids without scores pivoted to those that emailed test optional and drive the total number of apps up thereby making the acceptance rate appear lower. They also only have good scores (50% or less) factored into their reported score averages while the test required factor in scores from 100% of those admitted. It’s easier to get a high test average when you only get scores from high scoring students.

It’s game playing. It will eventually affect rankings at some point in the future- to remain TO.

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Anonymous wrote:Those state schools are even lower than listed because those rates include in-state and out-of-state kids.

Yep. Georgia Tech at 9% for OOS this cycle.

Yep
UNC 7% OOS
UCLA 7% OOS
UVA 10% OOS

GT 9% OOS GT Engineering OOS 6% Acceptance rate