Chicago's peers reported class 18 application numbers

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>So far many Chicago’s peers have reported the total application numbers for class 2018. Dartmouth is the latest one - reported today while Harvard and Yale just reported last week.</p>

<p><a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2014/02/10/news/college-sees-14-percent-drop-in-applications”>http://thedartmouth.com/2014/02/10/news/college-sees-14-percent-drop-in-applications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>NW, WashU, Duke, etc. have already reported too.</p>

<p>Interestingly quite a few still have not reported yet - Chicago, Stanford, MIT, a couple of Ivies, etc.</p>

<p>There are some interesting trends this year IMO:</p>

<p>Most of the schools (if already) have reported way late - common app glitches?</p>

<p>No big gain or loss except Penn (+14%) and Dartmouth (-14%) - application saturated? The current cycle of the frantic admission war has come to a stop?</p>

<p>More applied early - Duke saw a whopping 25% increase for ED but only 2% increase in total. The same symptom has happened to NW too.</p>

<p>More accepted during early round - Harvard increased EA admits to 992 from last year’s 892, from 774 two years ago. Penn will fill 54% of class 2018 with ED admits while Harvard will more than 50% assuming 90% EA yield rate.</p>

<p>Comments?</p>

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<p>Actually, I think it’s a good thing that the explosive growth of application numbers might be slowing. I don’t think it’s a good thing for a school to have sub-10% acceptance rates; far too selective and not enough quality is being added to the student body for such a high stress cost to parents and students. I for one would not be sad to see Chicago and its peers report higher acceptance rates this year. </p>

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<p>@neweducation, as much as I agree with you, I don’t think UChicago will report an overall acceptance rate higher than 8%. It may be a futile exercise, but my prediction of the overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2018 is 7.5% with the yield in the border line of 60% </p>

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<p>Total applications are slightly under from last year but the rate of enrollment deposits so far (indicator of yield) is up.</p>

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<p>^How do you know the number of total applications is down from that of last year? I don’t think the official data is out yet. </p>

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<p>Columbia received 32,952, 1.5% fewer than last year .
<a href=“Admissions Releases Class of 2018 Application Count - Bwog”>http://bwog.com/2014/02/12/admissions-releases-class-of-2018-application-count/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;