Harvard, and other colleges, post record low admit rates
Harvard, and other colleges, post record low admit rates
Thursday, April 1, 2010
(Photo: Bloomberg)
While regular decision applicants to Yale’s Class of 2014 will have to wait until this evening to find out their admissions decisions, a number of colleges have already notified their applicants, and posted record low admissions rates.
Harvard set a record low, admitting only 6.9 percent of applicants.
Stanford admitted 7.2 percent of applicants, down from 7.8 percent last year.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted an admissions rate of 9.7 percent — the first time in history that fewer than 10 percent of its applicants.
The University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth also posted their most selective year on record, admitting 14.2 percent and 11.5 percent of their applicants, respectively.
Duke’s admissions rate also fell from 17 percent last year to 15 percent — a new record low for the university.
The University of Chicago which recorded a 42 percent spike in application numbers saw their admissions rate fall from 27 percent to 18 percent this year.
Similarly, Swarthmore and Northwestern also recorded competitive admissions cycles. Sixteen percent of applicants to Swarthmore received offers of admission equaling a previous record set in 2008. Northwestern saw a 4 percent drop in its admissions rate to 23 percent.
Comments
None 1 year, 10 months ago
Who cares? Anyone can apply...just a click and application fee away.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
Right. Far more significant is the yield rate number. Its not how many you invite to the party, but what fraction of the invitees actually shows up.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
But for that precise reason, it makes you wonder why such a significant number applied to Harvard/Brown/etc and not Yale. Are we really not worth that simple click and application fee? Something to think about.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
Far more significant may be yield, but Harvard still wins out in that.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
Could it be Yale's location in New Haven, the a$$hole of New England?
None 1 year, 10 months ago
stupid Harvard trolls. Get a life.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
Someone is a position to know once told me that the difference between the Harvard yield rate and the Yale yield rate (ie, the cross-admit difference) is due primarily to the relative attractiveness of Cambridge and New Haven as places to spend 4 years. Reportedly, surveys of cross admits who choose Harvard over Yale frequently mention this as a tipping factor.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
for those who don't have $50,000 a year to spend, an undergraduate education at a good state university can cost a third as much. This is a decision even those admitted to "name" schools will be making in the next few weeks.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
For "those who don't have $50,000 a year to spend" an undergraduate education at Princeton, Harvard, Yale MIT or Stanford can cost substantially less than a good state university - particularly for out-of-state applicants. This is why the Ivies etc. lose very few cross-admits - except to each other.
For example, 60% of Princeton and Harvard admits will be receiving financial aid packages averaging $40,000.
The amount left for these kids and their parents to pay is less than it would cost to feed them at home.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
"Are we really not worth that simple click and application fee?"
I clicked and application feeed
RESULTED IN FAILURE
None 1 year, 10 months ago
I think that the tragic death of Annie Le might have something to do with it. Though it could have happened anywhere, I'm sure it made many parents wary of their kids applying to Yale.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
Honestly, the Ivies are the most affordable colleges in America (along with Stanford)my finaid packages were considerablky less than a state school. Also, Y>H in the finaid department for me. How did this happen? I'm happy!
None 1 year, 10 months ago
Like the PSL's at the New Meadowlands Stadium and all those empty front row seats at the New Yankee Stadium and Citi Field in New York Yale and Harvard's continual tuition hikes have reached the tipping point a family will pay.
None 1 year, 10 months ago
The sliding scale of tuition charges (based on perceived ability to pay) will not have "reached the tipping point a family will pay" until yield rates start to decline at the elites, and they start to lose cross admits to cheaper, less-prestigious alternatives.
There is little evidence that this point has been reached.
It is still pretty much true that the winner pretty much takes all in a price-insensitive market.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp0001s.pdf
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp9901.pdf
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