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U. sees 19 percent jump in applicants to Class of 2014
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2010
The University announced on Friday that it received a record 26,166 applications for the Class of 2014, a 19 percent increase from last year.
"We were not expecting a 19 percent increase. That was quite shocking to us," Dean ...
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YAy for Princeton!! :)
Wow, now we are going to get a slew of comments trying to assert that Princeton > Yale, Harvard. The inferiority complex at this school is disturbing sometimes.
Hah! This proves that Princeton > Yale, Harvard.
Does this mean that now we might not accept like six applicants per seat this year? Last year's yield rate was atrocious.
According to the Common Data Set, there were 21,963 applications last year, and 2,209 admits, for a class of 1,320.
The reporter may have forgotten that there were people admitted from the waitlist last year, and they DO count as admits. We do not know, as yet, how many will be admitted - including from the waitlist, this year.
Last year, the admit rate was 10.1%, and the yield rate was 59.8%.
Wait a minute, didn't they report a huge DROP in apps the other day? Has this site been taken over by Fox News or what?
Princeton sees steep drop in applications for Class of 2014
By Fred Hargadon
Guest Contributor
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The University received an astonishingly low 10,943 applications for the Class of 2014, representing a 50 percent drop from last year, a stunned Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian on Tuesday.
If the University accepts roughly 2,150 people from the applicant pool this April — as it did last spring — the school’s acceptance rate would more than double, to 20.1 percent.
“I will be delighted to be able to offer admission to more students,” Rapelye said. “It’s only good for us. They are so strong and so powerful.”
The report of the steep drop in applicants to Princeton comes in the same week as other Ivy League schools announced record-size applicant pools. All seven other institutions in the Ancient Eight saw double-digit growth, potentially from the thousands of students who opted not to apply to Princeton.
Rapelye said she had no concrete evidence for why the University was so unpopular with high school seniors all across the country.
“The challenge is always to understand why students make the choices they do,” Rapelye said. She expressed concern that coverage last spring by The Daily Princetonian about the University’s rising acceptance rate may have played a part.
"I don’t necessarily see this as an arms race, trying to get the most students,"
That is BS, the admission office is just making sure it doesn't lose pace in that component of US News Rankings. This new classs, despite having a 7 or 8% acceptance rate, will not be any more qualified than the class of 2013 or even significantly more qualified than classes from the 1990s when the admit rate was 20%. It is sick that the administration encourages so many students to apply here, just so they can reject 93% of them. Chasing magazine rankings shouldn't be an excuse for destroying high schoolers' hopes.
you're an idiot. it was a JOKE issue- it says so at the bottom of the article
You're a liar -- everyone knows that everything on the internet is true.
While I agree that most things on the internet are true, I don't see how you can reconcile the fact that the two articles make opposite claims. Clearly one article must be false, and I'm inclined to this it was Wednesday's since it was the joke issue.