Brandeis Majors

deispremed
Fri, 05 May 2006 03:26:24 +0000

That’s because Hiatt doesn’t know anything. The Pre-Health office has a nice small packet full of data. 2004 was a pretty good year, 40/53 accepted = 75%.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with it, but it seems like the years which have fewer applicants have higher acceptance rates. Perhaps due to more intense weeding out.

2000: 57/91 accepted = 63%
2001: 52/71 = 71%
2002: 44/60 = 73%
2003: 51/76 = 67%
2004: 39/52 = 75% ??? different numbers from above, must have been a calculation error. But pretty much the same.

Also, the national rates vary slightly from year to year. The year Brandeis did worst also was a year when only 47% of applicants nationwide got in.

2000-2004: 47, 50, 52, 50, 49% respectively nationwide. So we do about 20% better than the national average.