Chances of acceptance for B Arch applicant

Mashinations
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:02:45 +0000

Right - my intent was to bucket those schools together as being “Reachy” and challenging to get into. They have very low admit rates as a whole and my experience was that the Arch admit rates tend to be substantially lower than the general admit rates at most schools.

For students in the higher tiers of their high school class some of the schools that look like targets as a general admit become a reach when drilling down to B.Arch programs (Virginia Tech is easy to point to in this space since they publish the data). Last cycle 2,041 applicants to B.Arch, they accepted 584 (29% accept rate) and 127 enrolled. Versus a broader 55% acceptance rate.

Cornell’s starting class size is suggested to be 60 students.
I believe Carnegie Mellon’s is smaller than this (40?)
A Reddit post (if you believe Reddit - I tend not to) says Rice’s program is capped at 24.
Syracuse has one of the larger programs and I think they generally target 150 first year.
A google on Pratt suggests they target 15 starting first years.

Those numbers are specifically B.Arch - the “School of Architecture” will list much larger numbers because most will include School of Design, Landscape Architecture, Real Estate, etc as part of that School.

Not trying to be doom and gloom, they are competitive programs to get into and the OP might get into one of the very competitive ones and not into one of the less competitive ones and it will be a mystery as to why. Maybe the schools will be in awe of the portfolio and they will get accepted to all of them.