<p>In answer to the confusion regarding Willamette’s 2012 admission rate, I think that there may have been an error on the originally posted CDS. I remember seeing it and thinking that it seemed far out of line with previous reports. Checking again now, the numbers have changed (I also noted that the web page was updated on May 3, 2013 11:51:02 AM). For fall of 2012 the currently viewable CDS shows 8887 total applications for the freshman class, with 5370 admitted. That’s just over 60%, and not radically out of line with previous years. The slight uptick in admit % could be a result of the policy change that CalAlum mentioned.</p>