Princeton to reinstate early admission program

JHS
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:14:45 +0000

^ Right. And I’ll bet that Berkeley and UCLA each got at least 10 of those 167, probably even a few more than that. That’s what I meant by double-digits – absolute numbers, not percentages. I suppose it’s possible that Berkeley takes 10 or more kids from HYP, too, but a lot less likely that with Stanford, because there are so many more California admits at Stanford.

I have no precise idea what the numbers at HYP are, but a few years ago molliebatmit reported that when MIT looked at where its accepted students went, only two public universities had more than 10 apiece – Berkeley and Georgia Tech, both of which got in the low to mid teens. And MIT has significantly more accepted students go elsewhere than Harvard, Yale, or Stanford.

So I stand by what I said before – as a practical matter, home state publics are not meaningful competitors of HYPS.

It IS interesting, however, that Yale seems to have changed its policy recently. Four years ago, at least, you could apply to ANY public’s rolling-admission program and also apply to Yale SCEA, but sometime after that they limited it to home state.