Official article from Colby: http://www.colby.edu/news/2018/03/23/demand-for-colby-rises-among-high-achieving-students/

Haverford (18.7% acceptance rate): https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2022

Barnard (13.7% acceptance rate): https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2018/03/23/barnard-admissions-rate-drops-to-137-percent-for-class-of-2022/

UVA (26.5% acceptance rate): https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds

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Anonymous wrote:this thread is so stupid. my kid isn't applying to college this year, but I could sit here and post fake "admit profiles" and no one would know the difference.

this is an anonymous forum. why the hell would anyone think people are going to sit here and post specific enough profiles of admitted students to be at all helpful?

Just wait until the process hits your house. You'll be trolling every admit profile on College Confidential and trying to uncover this thread.

NP. Have had 4 kids go through the college application process, and just no. Such strange behavior.

And yet you’re here. Why, pray tell?

entertainment. people be crazy.

Ha! Fair answer. People definitely be crazy here, though with filtering there is occasionally something to learn.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is so stupid. my kid isn't applying to college this year, but I could sit here and post fake "admit profiles" and no one would know the difference.

this is an anonymous forum. why the hell would anyone think people are going to sit here and post specific enough profiles of admitted students to be at all helpful?

Just wait until the process hits your house. You'll be trolling every admit profile on College Confidential and trying to uncover this thread.

NP. Have had 4 kids go through the college application process, and just no. Such strange behavior.

And yet you’re here. Why, pray tell?

entertainment. people be crazy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is so stupid. my kid isn't applying to college this year, but I could sit here and post fake "admit profiles" and no one would know the difference.

this is an anonymous forum. why the hell would anyone think people are going to sit here and post specific enough profiles of admitted students to be at all helpful?

Just wait until the process hits your house. You'll be trolling every admit profile on College Confidential and trying to uncover this thread.

NP. Have had 4 kids go through the college application process, and just no. Such strange behavior.

And yet you’re here. Why, pray tell?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is so stupid. my kid isn't applying to college this year, but I could sit here and post fake "admit profiles" and no one would know the difference.

this is an anonymous forum. why the hell would anyone think people are going to sit here and post specific enough profiles of admitted students to be at all helpful?

Just wait until the process hits your house. You'll be trolling every admit profile on College Confidential and trying to uncover this thread.

NP. Have had 4 kids go through the college application process, and just no. Such strange behavior.

Anonymous wrote:this thread is so stupid. my kid isn't applying to college this year, but I could sit here and post fake "admit profiles" and no one would know the difference.

this is an anonymous forum. why the hell would anyone think people are going to sit here and post specific enough profiles of admitted students to be at all helpful?

Just wait until the process hits your house. You'll be trolling every admit profile on College Confidential and trying to uncover this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Your UVA EA figure is wrong. The acceptance rate for EA dropped to 27.8% http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/01/uva-accepts-27-8-percent-of-early-action-applicants-for-class-of-2022

The list posted comes from College Confidential and gets updated regularly as official stats come out.

Why would you use year old stats from College confidential when I've provided the 2018 EA results for you. Traditionally, RD is somewhat lower than EA. Wouldn't the institution itself be more likely to have the correct stats than old College Confidential materials? This is why this post is useless.

Actually the 27.8% EA figure is useless since it does not separate in-state EA results from OOS state EA results. I don't care what OOS EA results are and non-Virginians don't care about instate results.

UVA doesn't care what you think. It posted selectivity for this year. It dropped to 26.5%. 37,222 applied. 93% in the top ten percent of their class. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds?utm_source=UFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news

Mediocre school that benefits from in-state applicants that can’t afford private university.

Lol, no one cares that you can afford private school for your mediocre child.

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Anonymous wrote:Your UVA EA figure is wrong. The acceptance rate for EA dropped to 27.8% http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/01/uva-accepts-27-8-percent-of-early-action-applicants-for-class-of-2022

The list posted comes from College Confidential and gets updated regularly as official stats come out.

Why would you use year old stats from College confidential when I've provided the 2018 EA results for you. Traditionally, RD is somewhat lower than EA. Wouldn't the institution itself be more likely to have the correct stats than old College Confidential materials? This is why this post is useless.

Actually the 27.8% EA figure is useless since it does not separate in-state EA results from OOS state EA results. I don't care what OOS EA results are and non-Virginians don't care about instate results.

UVA doesn't care what you think. It posted selectivity for this year. It dropped to 26.5%. 37,222 applied. 93% in the top ten percent of their class. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds?utm_source=UFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news

Mediocre school that benefits from in-state applicants that can’t afford private university.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your UVA EA figure is wrong. The acceptance rate for EA dropped to 27.8% http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/01/uva-accepts-27-8-percent-of-early-action-applicants-for-class-of-2022

The list posted comes from College Confidential and gets updated regularly as official stats come out.

Why would you use year old stats from College confidential when I've provided the 2018 EA results for you. Traditionally, RD is somewhat lower than EA. Wouldn't the institution itself be more likely to have the correct stats than old College Confidential materials? This is why this post is useless.

Actually the 27.8% EA figure is useless since it does not separate in-state EA results from OOS state EA results. I don't care what OOS EA results are and non-Virginians don't care about instate results.

UVA doesn't care what you think. It posted selectivity for this year. It dropped to 26.5%. 37,222 applied. 93% in the top ten percent of their class. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds?utm_source=UFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news

Here is some specific info about USC regarding the admitted students (final acceptance rate: 12.8%): http://admissionblog.usc.edu/it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/

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Anonymous wrote:Your UVA EA figure is wrong. The acceptance rate for EA dropped to 27.8% http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/01/uva-accepts-27-8-percent-of-early-action-applicants-for-class-of-2022

The referenced press release from UVA actually has the following sentence.

"Of those accepted early action, 1,906 were students of color — an increase from the 1,900 admitted last year."

Apparently, they are very proud they admitted 6 more kids "of color".

That's the term all colleges use, including College Board. And 1900 is more than half the anticipated class of 3750. Also in the next sentence they lay out that there are 30 more offers to low-income students, but you omitted that. And the numbers of men compared to women. I think the figures are significant in light of that fact that the alt.right tromped around on UVA last August. I'm glad to see "of color" appliations and numbers so high.

Seems like an insanely competitive year.

WashU, Williams, Pomona, and the like, I get. They're competitive as heck, basically Ivy tier. No surprises.

But Villanova has a middle 50% ACT of 32-34 this year? 4.1-4.48 GPA? In my time, they were a safety school. Now you need top of the line sort of stats to get in.

Santa Clara is an alright but not outstanding school in California. Looking at their numbers, 1400 average SAT/31 average ACT, 3.8 unweighted GPA. Wow.

What is going to happen for the average student? Even average for this board doesn't seem to cut it anymore.

Sorry for typos, typing on my small phone with big fingers!

Maybe you and I ate reading different things, but many of the articles clearly define the sort of testing, class rank, and diversity stats the school was looking for. Did you bother clicking the links? That WashU's middle 50% for the SAT was 1500-1560 (basically a perfect score) seems to indicate they were especially test conscious this year. A student with a 1450 (great score- 98th percentile) would be below the 25th percentile for WashU admitted students this year.

I don't think anyone is saying make this your only source of info, but there's no denying there IS useful info in there.

As for acceptance rates, yes I agree they're not a great measure of quality since they can be manipulated readily. But the fact of the matter is that Y school admitted Z% of applicants this year. It's a fundametal facet tied to the process, flawed as if is.

Also, most schools don't release a formal admitted student profile along the lines of the CDS. That publicity article is it. The profiles usually describe the enrolling class.

Anonymous wrote:Your UVA EA figure is wrong. The acceptance rate for EA dropped to 27.8% http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/01/uva-accepts-27-8-percent-of-early-action-applicants-for-class-of-2022

The referenced press release from UVA actually has the following sentence.

"Of those accepted early action, 1,906 were students of color — an increase from the 1,900 admitted last year."

Apparently, they are very proud they admitted 6 more kids "of color".