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After months of breathless anticipation, eager applicants logged online yesterday evening to find out if they had been granted a spot in the Class of 2012. Next year’s freshman class will be the first that did not ...
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So this year's number are: An acceptance rate of just over 6% out of 20,118 applications. Target class size of 1,240-1,250 students. And last year's yield was 68% Assuming a 6.3% acceptance rate yields only 1,267 admitted students. Wow, drawing heavily on the wait list is an understatement.
How many people exactly are on the wait list this year, does anybody know?
I don't get this quote -- “made with recognition that selectivity ratios and yield percentages may change, but that the underlying moral obligation to equalize the admissions process is more important.”
Now there's a "moral obligation" to "equalize" the admissions process? I have yet to understand how "disadvantaged" applicants cannot read the materials they receive, or which are available on the website, and figure out something for themselves. Heaven forbid it. That would be so immoral.
Removing early decision is going to change the face of Princeton, and not in the happy way that the admissions office thinks. There are going to be less people graduating who chose Princeton because of its differences and more people choosing it because "it's the highest ranked school I got into." Having been associated with two schools that are like that, it's a terrible thing, and I have a hard time thinking it won't have a serious effect on the devotion of future alumni.
6%! amazing!
The numbers in this article are completely wrong. First of all, Princeton received 21,262 application at last count, not 20,118 (http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/...), and second, the admissions rate was NOT 6%. You can't just divide the expected class size by the number of applications received, because that assumes a 100% yield. Expect an initial yield that is significantly less than last year's (probably low sixties or high fifties) and an initial admission rate of 8 to 10 percent, depending on how heavily the Admissions office is relying on the wait list.
I don't understand why Pton admission won't just announce the number of acceptances they gave out. If the yield rate ist 70%, then they would have given out 1785 acceptance letters, that should be an admission rate of about 8.5%, not 6%!
Why is pulling from the wait list more "moral" than using early decision? I would think the fear and uncertainty of being on the wait list is more stressful on applicants than the decision to apply early. If instead the "moral" implications rely on paternalistically deflated views of race/class/"disadvantaged persons" ability to comprehend "early decision" how are "they" any more likely to understand how to game the wait list, or write the admissions office a letter emphasizing their commitment to PU? I think it takes more accumen to navigate an unwritten and undisclosed policy to get off the wait list than it takes to figure out how to apply early.
Did you guys just divide 1250 by 20118 to get 6.2%? Is this number corroborated from anywhere?
If that's the case, as other people have been saying, you guys are probably wrong and this number is unreliable.
I would wait until you got that number confirmed to post it.
This nonsensical story should be pulled back and completely re-written by somebody who knows something about admission.
I suppose this silly story has something to do with it being April Fool's Day?