Admit Rates -- Class of 2016 (official)

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<p>Yes, you should let Berkeley’s report stand on its own. As your own sources cited, “This year’s admissions rate was 21 percent: 61,695 students applied, and 13,037 received offers to start school in either the fall or the spring of the 2012-13 academic year. Last year, that combined admissions rate was 26 percent.” Those numbers are almost identical to the UCOP official numbers that were posted a while ago. And, fwiw, here are the data tables used by UC Berkeley:</p>

<p><a href=“Berkeley News | Berkeley”>Berkeley News | Berkeley;

<p>And, not you are not manipulating data. You are, just as your alma mater does, conveniently obfuscating a portion of the admitted pool. Of course, Cal is not the only school that exploits a loophole caused by a CDS ERRONEOUS definition. Middlebury has also obfuscated its Winter/Spring admits for as far as I can remember. Why is this definition erroneous and misleading? Because the process does not require (and cannot) separate the application pool according to immediate or deferred admissions. The rest is a matter of integrity!</p>

<p>The results, however, are as crooked as a three-dollar bill. And the fact that USNews and its partners in the CDS allow this misreporting to happen goes against the basic principle of the Common Data Set, namely have information that is … comparable. To understand how misleading this is, just imagine if all schools started to split their admissions by semester and have semi-annual graduations of equal importance? How would you like to see your friends at Stanford reporting 36,000 applicants but 800 admissions for September --and not mention the 800 admitted in January or April? </p>

<p>Now, you can compare the CDS for 2010 and the numbers reported correctly by UCOP for 2010 through 2012. </p>

<p><a href=“http://opa.berkeley.edu/statistics/cds/2010-2011.pdf[/url]”>http://opa.berkeley.edu/statistics/cds/2010-2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/fall_2012_admissions_table2.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/fall_2012_admissions_table2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;