Paperwork filled out, recommendations obtained and transcripts submitted, sophomores who have been waiting to hear whether they have been admitted to the Wilson School flocked to their mailboxes today.
Of the 154 students who applied to the program, 90 were accepted, which has been the standard Wilson School class size for the last decade.
“We had quite a range of people,” Wilson School professor and faculty chair Stanley Katz said. “It took us several hours to go through the [decision] process.” He added that the strength of the pool was not any different from previous years.
Out of the 90 accepted, 11 are certificate students from home departments such as art and archaeology, chemical engineering, operations research and financial engineering, molecular biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, astrophysics and physics.
With an acceptance rate of 58.44 percent, this year’s applicant pool size, Katz said, marks a return to the average after an extremely competitive previous year.
From 2000 to 2006, application numbers to the Wilson School have fluctuated, beginning at a low of 130 students in 2000, rising steadily to a peak of 167 in 2003 and then winding down slightly.
Last year, however, a record 190 members of the Class of 2009 applied to the Wilson School, pushing the acceptance rate for the University’s only selective major to below 50 percent. In 1999, the school had 195 applicants.
While the Wilson School typically keeps a list of waitlisted applicants, few are admitted that way because students rarely decline their acceptances.
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