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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to the main topic of this thread, it is interesting to see the latest Harvard-Westlake admissions outcomes handbook showing a recent spike in StA applications as well as a declining offer rate.

A few years ago StA appeared to be a guaranteed offer for students from this excellent school. [/quote]

Would love see more of these stats if you can share.[/quote]

If you are interested in geeking out on stats, there are a number of St Andrews data sets available on whatdotheyknow.com resulting from freedom of information requests.

For example, a request made on 12 May 2024 titled Admission Data shows the number of applicants and offers made by course of study for 2023-2024. Note the data includes offers, not acceptances net of conditions being met. Thus, their true US equivalent acceptance rate will be lower by some unknown amount. Also there is a large offer rate variance based on subject. For example, the Economics offer rate was in the mid-teens while the overall school’s offer rate was 30%.

Does anyone know, generally, what percent of students with conditional offers meet their conditions? Piecing together data from other time periods, it looks like roughly 50-66% of overall StA offers are conditional, roughly 33% of those accept their conditional offer, and then about 20% of those students fail to meet their conditions.

Squinting and being lazy about running real numbers, it’s possible the US equivalent acceptance rates for higher demand courses is around 10% +/- including all students and even tougher for UK students. Does this seem right? Not that it matters very much, just a fun mental exercise. 
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