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Will Brown's admit rate be lower than Columbia's this year?
| Flirting Titillating Philosopher-king | 01/20/10 |
| orange area sweet tailpipe | 01/21/10 |
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Date: January 20th, 2010 3:57 PM Author: Flirting Titillating Philosopher-king Seems like Brown's applications have been through the roof this year. Will they finally get over the hump and get a lower admit rate than Columbia? I'm predicting an 8.5 percent admit rate for Brown, with Columbia hovering around at 9-10 percent.
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Date: January 21st, 2010 11:54 AM Author: orange area sweet tailpipe Subject: Not necessarily. It really depends on Brown's yield during the RD round. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1196315&forum_id=1#13869152) |
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Date: January 25th, 2010 9:37 AM Author: Swashbuckling haunting liquid oxygen Subject: I'd expect the ultimate Brown admit rate to be about 9.5% Assuming that the yield rate is about 55% as its been the last couple of years, or a little lower, they'll need to admit 2,800 or so to fill the class.
As yet unknown is the male/female split among the applicants and admits. Brown got 3 female apps for every 2 male apps last year, and its yield rate is several points higher on female admits than on male admits.
Another unknown is how many will be taken from the waitlist. There were about 90 WL admits last year, and 70 the year before. I'd expect to see a conservative approach to initial RD admits this year, given the uncertain composition of the larger applicant group. This might lead to a larger number of WL admits. |
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Date: January 25th, 2010 10:01 AM Author: Onyx menage There's also the Emma Watson Effect to be evaluated.
Remember that this is a generation weaned on Harry Potter. |
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Date: January 25th, 2010 5:07 PM Author: Swashbuckling haunting liquid oxygen The attraction to young female celebrities is a girlish thing, I think.
Repapa is convinced that some tv show with an Eli character helped Yale apps for a while, and in years past, some thought the Brooke Shields era lent P'ton a temporary jolt of electricity and that Chelsea Clinton did the same for Stanford.
I never saw any evidence that Natalie Portman's presence goosed the apps at Harvard. |
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Date: January 26th, 2010 4:14 PM Author: Chrome center electric furnace Subject: Well Brown had two media hits this year - it was (except for Yale) the most popular choice of the mean girls on gossip girl, the TV series set in manhattan and supposedly capturing the life styles of the prep school set. And as Answer Man pointed out, it benefitted from Emma Watson as well.
As to Yale this year, the murder of the grad student, even though it was by someone who knew her, seemed to scare off some people, either that or the vanishingly low 7.5% admit rate of last year. I truly think that low admit rates have an adverse effect the following year - demonstrating the Yogi Berra line about the restaurant no one goes to anymore because its too crowded. Conversely, higher than expected admit rates one year (i.e Princeotn's 10.0 vs Yale and H's 7.5% last year), may trigger an avalanche of new apps from kids seeking a marginal admissions advantage compared to other peer schools.
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Date: January 20th, 2010 9:54 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Rambunctious Tank Cuckold Subject: who cares? These admission rates interleave over time. Brown had the edge for many years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1196315&forum_id=1#13864356) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 8:28 PM Author: Flirting Titillating Philosopher-king It appears they are going to be both listed at 9 percent. Brown finally overcame that hurdle of being behind Columbia in selectivity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1196315&forum_id=1#14722963) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 11:26 PM Author: Swashbuckling haunting liquid oxygen Subject: I'd say they will be pretty even Columbia's marginally higher yield rate last year (55.7% to 55.2% can probably be accounted for by the fact that Columbia filled a somewhat higher fraction of its class via its yield-boosting ED program than did Brown.
This year, Brown assumed a 55% yield in making initial admits to the Class of 2014, so that it should probably take far fewer than the 90 they took off the WL last year - maybe 20 or so - and if that is the case then the final admit rate should be around 9.5% as I forcast earlier.
Columbia, on the other hand, admitted quite "conservatively" for the Class of 2014, so that they would have to take upwards of 65-70 off the WL to fill the class at last year's yield rate. Their ultimate admit rate may be about the same as Brown's, or a little higher.
The wild cards are whether the yield rate drops or rises at either school, and whether either school decides to increase class size slightly, or to reduce it. |
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Date: April 18th, 2010 11:44 PM Author: motley khaki public bath Who cares?
Get a life... |