Twelve percent acceptance rate? I think not.

<p>In Northwestern’s rejection letter posted online it states - “This year, just over 16,000 students applied for the 1,925 places in the freshman class.” This would mean that Northwestern would have about a 12% accept rate for this year - highly unlikely.</p>

<p>They accept more people than 1,925 because many will choose not to go to Northwestern…</p>

<p>Therefore, your reasoning is incorrect. Nevertheless, the acceptance rate isn’t 12% like you said.</p>

<p>PerfectFourth, I am sorry that you didn’t get in, good luck with everything else, and I sincerely mean that. Just to clear this up for you, they accept roughly over 4,000 students to fill that quota for that many students b/c not everyone who is admitted attends. Like most other top private schools, Northwestern experiences around a 40 percent yield. Hope that helps, GOOD LUCK!!!</p>

<p>Probably offered 4 -5,000 spots to get a 30% - 50% yield.</p>

<p>Even with a 41% yield rate - it is still on the low side. What if everyone accepted decides to enroll, would they have to make room for everyone?</p>

<p>Oh, okay. Thanks for the clear-up.</p>

<p>They would have to make room for everyone, but the situation you described will never happen.</p>

<p>if every acceptee enrolled , they’d start building tents… or throw some of them into the lake…</p>

<p>They’re basically going to have the same acceptance rate every year unless a.) the number of applicants goes up, or b.) the yield goes up one year and they decide to accept less people the year after that</p>

<p>In 2003 it was 33%</p>

<p>In 2004 it was 30%</p>

<p>In 2005 it will be no less than 31%.</p>

<p>For 2005, it was 29%. Check the Daily Northwestern.</p>

<p>Isn’t that high acceptance rate? I thought northwestern would be more selective if it is considered to be so top tier.</p>

<p>You can be a top-tier school and still have a high acceptance rate. Frankly, a 30% acceptance rate is still not that high. They still rejected 2/3 of their applicants. Public universities such as UMichigan have even higher acceptance rates (49%ish). They accept based upon projected yield rates. Some schools have lower acceptance rates because they assume those accepted would automatically matriculate to their schools.</p>

<p>The fact that Northwestern doesn’t use the common application also makes their acceptance rate unusually high. I’m sure if they opened it up to the common app it would drop significantly since you can basically just click a button to send it to several different schools.</p>

<p>The Northwestern applicant pool is rather self-selecting anyway, so that is maybe one explanation for the high acceptance rate. Generally, people don’t apply to Northwestern for the hell of it, as people do for school like the ivies.</p>