Admissions Statistics?

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Northwestern admitted 8 percent more applicants for the Class of 2012 — 6,327 — than for last year, officials said Monday, as part of a record-setting class with the greatest number of applicants and highest SAT scores in university history.</p>

<p>A record 25,027 students applied to Northwestern for the coming fall, making for a 25.3 percent acceptance rate, according to Associate Provost Michael Mills. The mean SAT score of the prospective students was a record 1468, out of 1600, while 91.8 percent of those admitted are in the top 10 percent in their class.</p>

<p>Last year, 21,941 students applied and 27 percent were admitted.

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<p>Well, there we have it. #Admitted was up 8% over last year, while percentage of applicants admitted still fell 2%. Perhaps this was a play to increase yield?</p>

<p>25%, it should be noted, is still a solid and respectable number.</p>