2008 Overall Acceptance Rates

[palmettotree]

<p>Looked for a little bit and couldn’t find a thread with this info, so:</p>

<p>Harvard: 7.1%<br>
Princeton: 9.5%
UVa:
Vanderbilt: 23.1%
Duke: 19%
Dartmouth: 13.2%
Columbia: 10%<br>
Georgetown: 18%
Cornell: 22.9%<br>
MIT: 12%
Stanford: 9.5%
Yale: 8.3%<br>
Bowdoin: 18%<br>
Brown: 13.3%<br>
Northwestern: 25.3%
NYU: 24%
Notre Dame: 25%
USC: 21%
UPenn: 16.4%</p>

<p>Please add.</p>

[45_Percenter]

<p>With much heavier use of waitlists this year, look for some of these possibly to change more than in the past as the entering classes firm up.</p>

[tiff90]

<p>Washington and Lee 15%
Swarthmore 15%</p>

[palmettotree]

<p>I’m almost positive that the use of waitlists does not change the REPORTED acceptance rate by colleges, hence why WashU’s acceptance rate is always so low. It’s just another one of those tools that schools like to use to manipulate their data to jump in rankings.</p>

<p>W&L was 15%?!!?!?! My older brother went there last year and it was 27% I think. Wow.
P.S. Great school.</p>

[rusty333]

<p>What about Kenyon?</p>

[UCBChemEGrad]

<p>Berkeley: 21.5%
[04.14.2008</a> - Campus releases freshman admission data](<a href=“http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/04/14_admissions08.shtml]04.14.2008”>04.14.2008 - Campus releases freshman admission data)</p>

[lgellar]

<p>From the Common Data Set:

Provide the number of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full- or part-time) in fall 2007. Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort. Applicants should include only those students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (i.e., who completed actionable applications) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, nonadmission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution). Admitted applicants should include wait-listed students who were subsequently offered admission.

The acceptance rate is just admitted applicants divided by total applicants so, using the above definitions, that would include waitlisted applicants who were later accepted.</p>

<p>In other words, these acceptance rates are tentative.</p>

[45_Percenter]

<p>

@palmettotree

I’m almost positive that the use of waitlists does not change the REPORTED acceptance rate by colleges, hence why WashU’s acceptance rate is always so low. It’s just another one of those tools that schools like to use to manipulate their data to jump in rankings.

Yes, it does change the reported acceptance rate. The “official” acceptance rates colleges generally report on their web sites for the previous year’s entering classes are the final acceptance rates after waitlist admits and “summer melt.” These final rates are also what are reported by to and by US News, College Board, etc.</p>

<p>The media headlines in March/April report the preliminary rates such as you listed above, but the final official rates are what ultimately count, and get “etched in stone.”</p>

[WesDad]

<p>Actually, there is a long thread on the topic: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/481806-regular-decision-competitive-schools-2012-statistics-showing-up.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/481806-regular-decision-competitive-schools-2012-statistics-showing-up.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[RAM]

<p>Ucla: 22.1%</p>