@Regulus7 thanks.
Sorry – forgot to post…
12,030 applications 2,100 admitted
Class Target size: 765
44% Male, 56% female (of admits)
84% live outside of New England 17% from foreign countries
266 International students admitted (13%)
35% are students of color
13% are first generation to attend college
12% of admits have a Wesleyan family or alumni connection
49% applied for need based aid
1001 applied ED, (8% of all admits) 383 were admitted (18% of all admits)
16 Questbridge match scholars and 10 Veterans from Posse
ACT SAT CR SAT M SAT W
Admit 75% ile 34 770 780 780
Admit median 33 740 740 750
Admit 25% tile 32 700 700 700
79% of admits sent scores
thanks @Regulus7 !!
hey @Regulus7 how’d you get this info?
was wondering why on google it says Wesleyan has a 23.9 acceptance rate for 2016?
Just because it says 2016 doesn’t mean it is. Google is still listing last year’s rates for all the schools as far as I can tell. I wouldn’t be surprised if they farm the data from the US News site or somewhere equivalent and that isn’t updated until September.
It was listed at 21.9 for 2015 and was updated to 23.9 recently. Is it possible that the stats posted here are inaccurate?
I think the 2015 is actually the 2014 data. Think of it like how cars are always a model year ahead of the calendar. Look up what U.S. News has now. It says 23.9%. Yet they publish once a year in September so by definition that data is from the April 2015 admittance cycle. So what is being called 2016 is actually from 2015 and likely what you show for 2015 is actually 2014.
U.S. News says 23.9 for the 2014 admissions cycle. Other liberal arts colleges seems to have updated; Colby says 17.5 which is what was posted here. Just seems strange. Thanks for the prompt response though!
Wes definitely had a huge increase in applicants this year, about 22% so there’s no way the acceptance rate went down.
The data posted by someone on the previous page for this year was directly from Wesleyan so I wouldn’t dispute it. But if you really want accurate data from the previous year’s the compare, the best way is to search for each school’s common data set. Wesleyan publishes theirs here:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/common-data-sets.html
Of course you have to do the math yourself and it doesn’t include the data from this year yet.
It looks like for the 2015 admission cycle Wesleyan had 9.822 applicants (interesting far more women than men) and accepted 2,180 applicants. Doing the math that translates to an acceptance rate of 22.2%.
If you really want to geek out on the numbers you can see exactly how many were offered waitlist slots, how many stayed on the waitlist, how many were admitted from the waitlist, etc.
I wouldn’t put too much stock in the acceptance rate going up or down dramatically year-over-year. It’s been discussed and written about elsewhere that it’s easy for a school to get a lower acceptance rate on any given year at will with a variety of methods – more direct marketing, making the supplemental application easier, accepting a smaller portion of applicants and using the waitlist more later (which doesn’t impact acceptance rates), etc. I know Wesleyan had absolutely no Common App supplemental requirement this year. I’m not sure if that is the norm for them, but it took my S seconds to apply as a result since everything else was already done for other schools (and he had interviewed on a previous tour).
There’s not a perfect correlation between the acceptance rate and how hard (or easy) it is to get into a given school. My S relied far more on the specific Naviance data which was specific to his school and didn’t bother with generic national acceptance data at all.
@Chuck1234 The data I posted was directly from Wesleyan admission office, as released on their profile class of 2020 which they handed out to admitted students during Wesfest 2016
Maybe someone needs to nudge the admissions office to post the profile.
I don’t think Wes will post a profile until all the matriculation information is completely set in stone with the waitlist info. On the other hand, I was under the impression that it was 17% as well.
Has anyone else received an email for the summer waitlist?
I broke down and called the admissions office to ask the admissions rate. They said between 17 and 18% I said “Thanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda” to which the staff member replied “Basically.” lol
It’s up (17.7% admit rate):
http://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/apply/classprofile.html
Looks like they over-admitted just a tad. And, it looks as if the median SATs are up, but, that could be due to a new version of the test being given (even though Wesleyan is test-optional, everyone submits their scores after they’ve been accepted and matriculated.)
Test results for the class of 2020 represent the old SAT as the new test was not offered until January of 2016, by that point it would have been too late to take the test and submit for consideration to the class of 2020. Yield for class of 2020 was 36.7% versus 34.9% in 2019… so yes a bit higher but not that materially higher. Perhaps the most interesting statistics for those considering applying is the very large proportion of matriculated students who come in through the ED process. Amherst had similar yield with 39% accepting and most of the NESCAC schools similarly statisticall favored ED students in the admission process.