| GS Acceptance Rate
I believe the Provost's website says that the entering class in 2003 had an acceptance rate of around 24%. Last year both the class size and the applicant pool increased. This resulted in a higher acceptance rate. However there is no way of knowing what percentage of qualified applicants get in. In other words, its hard to tell if its like traditional Ivy league colleges where 80% of the applicants are able to handle the work, but only a fraction of them are admitted (based on what a Harvard admissions officer told me in high school), or if its more like some flagship state schools where there are enough seats for anyone who can hack it. My guess is that the criteria is fairly competitive. After all, people who are applying have chosen to try and finish their BA/BS's at a very expensive school with this sort of reputation, so it is a fairly self-selected group.
Its worth applying though. I know of at least one case where an applicant was originally rejected and then admitted a year later once he had addressed the specific concerns of the admissions office.
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