Dartmouth received a record 17,768 applications for the Class of 2013, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris, bucking a trend of stagnant or decreasing application numbers among similarly sized, private liberal arts colleges. The College intends to accept 1,800 applicants during the regular decision process, for a total class size of 2,200, Laskaris said, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 11 to 12 percent, the lowest in Dartmouth’s history.
...bucking a trend of stagnant or decreasing application numbers among similarly sized, private liberal arts colleges.
What trend? We haven't heard about any down numbers among RD have we? Dartmouth can hardly be compared to the hundreds of non-selective private LA colleges.
Nowadays, some smart, arrogant people just apply to all the "top schools" for the sake of prestige. That just takes away the spot of students who really want the school.
At my school, a girl applies to 26 schools, all Ivies inclusive. Ah, I hate people like that.
Ivies use "likely" letters for recruited athletes in place of the NCAA Div.1 letters of intent.
Dartmouth issues 2 types of likely letters; one set for recruited athletes and the other set (the bulk of the 500 given during RD) are for students that the college is highly interested in enrolling (some come with an invitation to Dimensions). The likely letters go out in waves starting in february.
I'd guess for a deferred applicant to get a LL, something significant would have had to happen since the deferral. Dartmouth, like other schools, uses LL's to try to get under the skin of it's top applicants, kids it knows will also be accepted at HYPS. That's pretty much the same thing they do in the ED pool with unhooked applicants, accept those they don't want to risk losing to competitors.
Recruited athletes make up 30 to 35 percent of the students admitted early decision to Dartmouth, according to Parish. Also, 18 to 19 percent of each incoming class are recruited athletes.
