<p>As a follow-up, was that admit rate the overall admit rate, or the RD only. If it is the RD only, does anyone know the admit rate for ED or ED II?</p>
<p>No one really knows the numbers as the Wesleyan Admissions Office is slow to release admission statistics (and the intrepid Argus staff does not pry it out of them). </p>
<p>However, the prior posters were estimating overall admissions rate. In the last couple of years, the ED admit rate has been around 43%; I imagine this year was in that ballpark.</p>
<p>Stats for Class of 2012:</p>
<p>RD: 8,250 applied, 2,421 were admitted (27.1%)
ED: 650 applied, 293 were admitted (45.1%)</p>
<p>SAT range (Median 25-75): 2010-2280 (1340-1520)
Math: 670-760
CR: 670-760
Writing: 670-760
ACT range (Median 25-75): 30-33
Median ACT: 32</p>
<p>ZenKarma, Did you get those stats at Wesfest?</p>
<p>Yes, I got those stats at WesFest from the Admissions office.</p>
<p>ZenKarma3, there’s something wrong with your numbers. 2,421 is 29.3% of 8,250.</p>
<p>If these raw numbers are correct, Wesleyan’s admit rates for both ED and RD actually went up this year. Although applications rose by 6%, admissions rose by 14%. Somewhat surprising.</p>
<p>you’re right. The number admitted was 2241, not 2421. The rate is 27%. I was doing those numbers out of memory. </p>
<p>The ED rate went up, but the SAT and ACT range went up. </p>
<p>Also, the class of 2012 has 80% of its students in the top decile of their high school class. That is up from 71% for last years class.</p>
<p>ZenKarma-- you’re mixing statistics. The 2012 stats are for ACCEPTED students. All other data are for MATRICULATED students. So obviously the numbers are going to go down a little bit, because the very top students will probably also have other college options and might decide one of the others is a better fit.</p>
<p>i think the people on this board are smart enough to infer what i mean when say “class.”</p>
<p>So the RD rate went down very slightly, and the ED rate went up a bit. Overally, selectivity remained about the same at 27.1%.</p>
<p>By keeping the selectivity rate approximately the same overall in the face of rising applications, Wes is apparently assuming a slightly lower yield than last year.</p>
<p>Jumble_j is correct that last year, 71% of MATRICULATING students were in the top decile. Last year, 80% of ADMITTED students were in the top decile – the same as this year, apparently.</p>
<p>On the other hand, ZenKarma3 is correct that the SAT and ACT scores for ADMITTED students increased a hair this year over last year.</p>
<p>All of this begs the question why, in the biggest applicant year ever, Wes’s selectivity didn’t go up.</p>
<p>“Overally”. I must be losing it.</p>
<p>Perhpas they accepted more to compensate for the domino effect of Harvard and Princeton eliminating ED.</p>
<p>You really think the 500 additional Wes applicants this year were all people who would otherwise have gotten into Harvard or Princeton ED? That seems unlikely. The total number of applicants to all colleges also increased significantly. And the selectivity of other colleges went up.</p>
<p>The other thing to remember is that Wesleyan doesn’t practice “Tufts Syndrome” when sending out letters; they really do accept the people they most want to attend, regardless of where else the applicant may have applied. If anything, they would prefer to over-accept, which they have done several times in the past five or six years. </p>
<p>My prediction? Be prepared to share a Butts double or triple come September (they’re really not that bad.)</p>
<p>The data are on the admissions office website now. </p>
<p>If the yield stays the same as last year (35%), there will be 40 more entering students this year than last. That WILL make for tight quarters in the dorms. In the last 5 years the entering class hasn’t varied by more than 13 people either way.</p>
<p>They must be planning on a lower yield.</p>
<p>I imagine there will be a lower yield because people are applying to more colleges.</p>
<p>I don’t think so, maxliving. If you look at the data out there, most colleges aren’t expecting lower yields. Overall, the increase in applications nationwide is mainly attributable to the demographic increase in the number of people applying to colleges, not an increase the number of colleges they’re applying to.</p>
<p>wes is gonna have a LARGE freshmen class next year…</p>
<p>what does not make sense is why they accepted more applicants. more kids will get rejected this year than ever before, so wesleyan does not have to worry about a lower yield this year; accepting more students this year makes no sense. </p>
<p>i see no need for them to accept the same percentage of kids this year; in fact, it makes more sense if they accepted LESS since kids will get rejected from more schools than last year.</p>
<p>ZenKarma3, assuming Wes doesn’t actually want to grow the class by 40 people, it would make sense to accept more applicants if Wes thought that quality of the average admittee had increased quite a bit, so that the average admitteee would have more attractive alternatives to Wes. </p>
<p>On the other hand, it would also make sense to accept more applicants if Wes thought that the reputation of the school was declining. </p>
<p>Judging by test scores alone, the average admittee hasn’t changed much.</p>