Class of 2017 - March and April Acceptance Rates

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<p>Notre Dame 22%
please see this post from the Total Applications thread which explains the source…the info was not derived from a published, web-accessible report: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15793314-post356.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15793314-post356.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>[truth123- if this data point does not live up to your editorial standards, I will not be offended if you remove.]</p>

<p>Stanford 5.7%
Harvard 5.8%
Yale 6.7%
Columbia 6.9%
Princeton 7.3%
MIT 8.2%
UChicago 8.8%
Brown 9.2%
Dartmouth 10.1%
Duke 11.5%
Claremont McKenna 11.7%
Vanderbilt 11.9%
UPenn 12.1%
Amherst 13.6%
Northwestern 13.9%
Swarthmore 14.0%
Bowdoin 14.5%
Pitzer 14.6%
Cornell 15.2%
Rice 16%
Georgetown 16.6%
Hopkins 16.8%
Williams 16.9%
Tufts 18.7%
Middlebury 19.2%
USC 19.6%
Barnard 20.5%
Colorado College 22%
Notre Dame 22%
Haverford 23.3%
Carnegie Mellon 24.7%
Colgate 26%
Hamilton 27.1%
Wellesley 28%
UVA 29.4%
Trinity Col 31%
William & Mary 32.5%
GWU 33.4%
Macalester 34%
Skidmore 35%
Connecticut College 35.2%
BU 36%
Union 37%
Kenyon 38%
Bryn Mawr 39%
RPI 41%
Occidental 42%
Dickinson 44.2%
Denison 45.5%</p>

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<p>Thank you for your kind work good sir! Very helpful indeed. :D</p>

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<p>From the Tulane admissions department blog:</p>

<p>“We had roughly 30,000 students apply to Tulane this year, and admitted around 25% of them. We plan on having a freshman class of around 1,500 students.”</p>

<p>[Tulane</a> University Admission Blog - Jeff](<a href=“Tulane University Admission Blog - Jeff Schiffman”>Tulane University Admission Blog - Jeff Schiffman)</p>

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<p>William & Mary once again saw a record number of applications this year, and the Class of 2017 promises to be yet another bright and diverse addition to the campus community.</p>

<p>The Office of Undergraduate Admission received 14,035 applications for the Class of 2017, setting a nine-year streak for record applications. From that record-setting pool, 4,565 students were admitted, many of whom will soon be on campus as part of the annual Day for Admitted Students.</p>

<p>[William</a> & Mary - William & Mary admits bright, diverse Class of 2017](<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2013/wm-admits-bright,-diverse-class-of-2017.php]William”>William & Mary admits bright, diverse Class of 2017 | William & Mary)</p>

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<p>USAF Academy- this is pretty rough, but about 10%, same as last year.
[Rudd</a> Accepts Air Force Academy Appointment : NorthEscambia.com](<a href=“http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/rudd-accepts-air-force-academy-appointment]Rudd”>Rudd Accepts Air Force Academy Appointment : NorthEscambia.com)</p>

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<p>PC, the admission rates at the military academies is not really comparable to other schools. The final acceptance rate is artificially low because of the nature of the process, and after adjusting the acceptance rate (as it should be) the number might be artificially high. The total number of “applicants” at the academy is a fantasy number. </p>

<p>Just as it was silly that some pundits decided the academies should be lumped with the LACs, it is really not helpful to compare the acceptance at the military academies to schools that do not rely on a preliminary cut to wean out applicants.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13595361-post13.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13595361-post13.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This is an example of why the academies numbers are bogus</p>

<p>Originally Posted by Xiggi </p>

<p>With all due respect, the admission process to the US academies is not comparable to regular colleges. Also, there is case to be made that the admission rate for the Naval Academy is higher than 16% since the number of applicants with an official nomination is 3,838 for the Class of 2012. </p>

<p>Applicants and Nominees
Applicants (includes nominees)… 10,960 ===> irrelevant!
Number of applicants with an
official nomination… 3,838
Nominees qualified scholastically,
medically and in physical aptitude… 2,196
Offers of admission… 1,537
Admitted… … 1,261</p>

<p>Oh well!</p>

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<p>For those who do not know, these statistics are largely meaningless and manipulated. Take a school like Wash. U. or Tufts? First your student gets inundated by mail from the school to apply. They then gladly take your money. If you are highly or over-qualified, but do not visit the school, in all likelihood you will be wait-listed, thereby averting an offer of acceptance and subsequent non-enrollment lowering the school’s yield. They effectively exercise a right of first refusal knowing the most competitive applicants will probably not accept an offer at their school.<br>
Another tactic for schools to appear more selective, increase yield, and aid in budgeting, is to accept more students via binding early decision, thereby knowing who they are getting and how much revenue they will receive from that locked-in group.
Finally, these statistics are not applicable to your student. If your student is a legacy, a URM, or first in family to attend college, all else being equal, he has a higher chance of acceptance. If your child is Asian or Caucasian and non-legacy, his chance of acceptance is likely lower than the statistics would lead you to believe.</p>

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<p>Nope. We don’t do that. Not saying it doesn’t happen. But not at Tufts.</p>

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<p>Has anyone heard about Wake Forest?</p>

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<p>“For those who do not know, these statistics are largely meaningless and manipulated. Take a school like Wash. U. or Tufts? First your student gets inundated by mail from the school to apply…”</p>

<p>At this household, mailings from Tufts were received FAR fewer times than those from U Chicago, Wash U, BU, Bates, and others. My daughter was free to “discover” Tufts pretty much on her own.</p>

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<p>Wash U. has the earliest and most mail-outs in my experience, followed by U. Chicago. Snail-mail spam, my mailbox overfloweth. Somewhere a mountain is deforested for their marketing efforts. The real joke is that many schools are not even sending out rejection letters or wait-list letters (you must go online), only acceptance letters!</p>

<p>It is bothersome that “Tufts Syndrome” has extensive entries on the internet and an Urban Dictionary entry. Was there a policy in the past that has changed? Does anyone have an explanation? </p>

<p>Although I understand yield management (“summer melt” is my favorite term), there is a great deal of anxiety and uncertainty in the college admissions process and good money and time is spent on both sides. I won’t even touch on the voluntary efforts of alumni admission representatives who interview countless students never to be accepted. Perhaps we should limit the number of applications via the common app to 5 or 10 schools and make students/parents stop the shotgunning on the front end.</p>

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<p>Just as I answered in the identical post in a different thread, it is wise to consult the current methodology. Acceptance rates account for a meager 1.5 percent of the total. Yield is NO factor. Compare that to the rightfully exposed for the biased and misleading element known as the peer assessment --which is a free for all because of its lack of guided expectation and a modicum of integrity. </p>

<p>The race to increase the number of application has been mostly overblown. The rise and fall in the USNews ranking can be traced to a number of elements that offer a much better return on manipulation and cronyism.</p>

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<p>U of C blanket mktg has been noted above. I am on my 3 rd kid in 10 yrs to this process, and I distinctly recall for the first that u of c was around 45 pct acceptance. this was before its top 10 us news ranking that it has nowadays.</p>

<p>anyone have u of c’s acceptance rates the last 10 yrs or so?</p>

<p>and yes, for kids three, I see a lot more snail and email from u of c. i bet they hired someone to get them up in rankings. c’mon, work those aps! :)</p>

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<p>xiggi, yes, I recall hitting on the Naval Academy apps inflation issue early on within the Total Apps '17 thread (post 52 & on)…</p>

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<p>here are the article links:
[Naval</a> Academy professor: A veneer of selectivity - College, Inc. - The Washington Post](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/naval-academy-professor-a-veneer-of-selectivity/2011/12/29/gIQA9droQP_blog.html]Naval”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/naval-academy-professor-a-veneer-of-selectivity/2011/12/29/gIQA9droQP_blog.html)
<a href=“http://www.navytimes.com/article/20120625/NEWS/206250313/USNA-applications-soar-but-experts-doubt-count[/url]”>http://www.navytimes.com/article/20120625/NEWS/206250313/USNA-applications-soar-but-experts-doubt-count&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>…on the so-called “Tufts Syndrome”…here is a fairly recent thread which was pretty exhaustive and I believe concluded the syndrome doesn’t exist:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1447109-victims-tufts-syndrome-lack-demonstrated-interest.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1447109-victims-tufts-syndrome-lack-demonstrated-interest.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I for one look at many many scattergrams, and rarely see a pattern of evidence of such practices (waitlist or denials for over-qualified applicants). The Tufts scattergrams for my kids’ schools look quite normal with no pattern of high-end applicant exclusion. The only case I could possibly make is the prolific use of waitlisting for well-qualified applicants to Wash U SL.</p>

<p>[Disclaimer, I am a Tufts fan, and having had 3 kids tour and 2 apply, I have studied them hard & trust in the integrity of their practices. FWIW, Admissions Dan gives the BEST info session of the dozens I’ve seen over the years.]</p>

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<p>Have fun</p>

<p><a href=“2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;

<p>Pomona came in at 922 admissions. Other numbers available.</p>

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<p>A temporary ranked table for LACs in 2017</p>

<p>Liberal Arts 2017 Admit Applied Admission %</p>

<p>Claremont McKenna 645 5,509 11.71%
Pomona 922 7,153 12.89%
Amherst 1,084 7,927 13.67%
Swarthmore 929 6,614 14.05%
Bowdoin 1,021 7,052 14.48%
Pitzer 597 4,105 14.54%
Williams 1,157 6,853 16.88%
Middlebury 1,750 9,112 19.21%
Wesleyan 2,126 10,974 19.37%</p>

<p>Barnard 1,151 5,606 20.53%
Carleton 1,475 7,030 20.98%
Haverford 835 3,590 23.26%
Colgate 2,172 8,370 25.95%
Hamilton 1,361 5,017 27.13%
Wellesley 1,350 4,794 28.16%</p>

<p>Macalaster 2,284 6,683 34.18%
Kenyon 1,551 4,050 38.30%</p>

<p>Smith 1,848 4,401 41.99%</p>

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<p>Does anyone think the low percentage is due to applicants applying to a high number of schools?</p>

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<p>I sincerely hope so- there’s no way I’m getting in otherwise, and my grades aren’t bad. Thing is, the yield rates at these schools aren’t low either. I think there are just way to many students with good grades.</p>