Chances for ED1 deferral

Papa_Chicken
Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:25:02 +0000

the “techniques” include the Feb admits, which is pretty unusual. Only Sep admits are counted in Midd’s admissions stats (at least those bantered about in the public realm), but the application pool includes ALL applications, for Sep & Feb…hence the Sep amission rate is driven down statistically. If ALL admits were included, the admissions rate number would be higher, i.e., less selective.

[s07…those rates I mentioned in post 3 are the most recent…RD: figure 20-21% chance for getting in for September; ED1…figure 25-27% for Sep admit…these numbers are significantly lower than just a few years ago.]

Midd reports 22% for Sep admits from ED & RD combined for last year’s crop (class of '10), and 24% for the Sep & Febs combined.
http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/7263728D-2A5D-4E85-8954-8DC88A58BCF2/0/admissions06.pdf

This year’s USNews uses the 2005-2006 Common Data Set as a basis for much of the college-specific statistics. USnews reports the fall 2005 (last year) admission rate for Midd as 24%. Calculation directly from the CDS ( http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/F5D55D7F-AD70-45D3-8068-15E2E28D1B8E/0/CDS2005_2006.pdf ) yields 23.6% which was rounded to 24% in USNews. The CDS reports (section C1) 5254 applicants & 1241 acceptances. Now, Midd’s own recently published admissions data ( http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/7263728D-2A5D-4E85-8954-8DC88A58BCF2/0/admissions06.pdf ) show the same # of applications, but 1301 acceptances, 60 more than reported on their CDS & used for admissions rate % in USNews. The extra 60 admits takes the rate up 1% rounded, to 25%. OK, I have no clue why there is a 1% bust, but perhaps it has something to do with creative definitions of waitlist admits or something like that, or maybe its just a mistake? But the bigger “technique” if you ask me is the Feb thing, because USNews based Midd’s selectivity on 24%, 4% more favorable than the 28% combined Sep & Feb admit rate. By no means saying Midd is using this Feb thing to manipulate the admit stats, but the fact that Midd has a significant Feb admission practice makes the admissions stats somewhat apples & oranges when comparing to other schools.