Why does Hopkins have such a high acceptance rate?

fungal2010
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:40:42 +0000

Saving that all Ivies, perhaps except Yale which has experienced a negligible decline in applications this yr, will all go down in varying degrees as well. For example, Princeton & Brown both have abt 20% increase in apps with no announcements on increase in enrollment so their acceptance rates will go down significantly. Yields will be correspondingly lower for these schools since there would be more cross-admits becos the surge, as many argue, is due to the same students applying to more schools (some say due partly to int’l applicants too). Sadly, it seems that the avg applicant this yr will receive more reject letters, and looks like this trend will continue becos next yr people will apply to even more schools being afraid of the lowering acceptance rates. My guess only.