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YALE acceptance rate info: 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970.
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Date: September 22nd, 2006 8:41 PM Author: Dun Spot Roast Beef Subject: From the Yale Alumni Magazine: " . . . the proportion accepted fell from nine in ten before the war, to six in ten by the mid-1950s, to one in three by the early 1960s."
As for historical SATs:
"The Class of 1970 entered with the highest SAT scores in Yale's history; a student who scored its mean SAT verbal mark of 697 would have been in the 90th percentile of the Class of 1961, and the 75th percentile of the Class of 1966."
Regarding legacies:
" As recently as 1961, [Yale] had accepted 53 percent of legacy applications and ended up with a class composed of 24 percent alumni sons..."
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/99_12/admissions.html
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Date: September 22nd, 2006 8:49 PM Author: indigo menage bbw Keep in mind the SAT verbal mark of 697 is pre the rescaling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6661650) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2006 8:50 PM Author: Dun Spot Roast Beef Subject: Addendum: Which, by the way, leads to the question of where President Bush's 1206 SAT in 1964 put him. He might possibly have had a higher SAT than half of the legacies who were at Yale with him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6661664) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2006 2:49 PM Author: Brindle Temple Filthpig including john kerry. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6664400) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2006 9:00 PM Author: Magical church building The Birth of a New Institution How two Yale presidents and their admissions directors tore up the "old blueprint" to create a modern Yale.
December 1999 by Geoffrey Kabaservice
This is old news!
The new Yale was started under President Kingmam Brewster of the late 1960s and early 1970s, with his Admissions Dean, R. Inslee Clark, both WASPs and Yale alumni. They actually abolished the officially sanctioned quota on Jews, under the protestations of the Yale Corporation, which included William F. Buckley Jr., the Conservative and author of , " Yale, For God, Man and Country". Yale admitted more Jews and Asian Americans as well as blacks and ethnics, during their reign, based mostly on academic record and SAT I scores from the public schools. One of these admits, was Bill Lan Lee, a Chinese American graduate of Bronx Science, Yale College and Columbia School of Law. He grew up with his parents, who operated a Chinese Hand Laundry in Harlem. I mention him, because Pres. Bill Clinton appointed him Assistant US Attorney General during his Presidency. On a personal note, one of my cousins was admitted to Yale during this period from a public high school in NYC, but he declined Yale's offer.
R. Inslee Clark was forced out of Yale eventually and he became the Headmaster at one of NYC's most academically elite day preps, the Horace Mann School, in Riverdale (really the Bronx, but it denies this), NYC, which is co-incidentally is about 70% Jewish today. |
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Date: September 22nd, 2006 10:31 PM Author: Dun Spot Roast Beef Subject: Pretty funny comment . . . . You say "this is old news" . . . in a thread about Yale admissions from 1940-70.
No, really? I thought it just happened yesterday. |
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Date: September 22nd, 2006 10:45 PM Author: Magical church building Subject: You are confused. Article in the Yale Alumni Mag is old news "The Birth of a New Institution", by Geoffrey Kabaservice December 1999 IS OLD NEWS.
I read this article in 1999 in the YAM!
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Date: September 23rd, 2006 12:33 PM Author: Honey-headed depressive corn cake Subject: Note - there was a lot of pre-screening in the old days (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6664068) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2006 12:39 PM Author: Cyan Rigpig this is truly quite shocking Lill. Have you considered a career in investigative reporting? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6664084) |
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Date: September 24th, 2006 1:05 AM Author: Dun Spot Roast Beef Subject: This thread and the Harvard one were in response to the threads where people were making claims based on false information about historical admissions. For some reason, people have a tendency to assume that Harvard and Yale always had 10% admit rates. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6667549) |
Date: September 23rd, 2006 9:28 AM Author: Magical church building Subject: Intersting stats for Yale from the St. Pauls' Newspaoer- 6/06 http://www.sps.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=6187
New Year, Same Story: College Admissions Process as Competitive as Ever
[Several of the nation's most selective colleges reported historically low admit rates during the 2006 college cycle. Of particular note in that group is Yale, which reported a staggering all-time low admit rate of 8.6%. To put some historical perspective on that number, here are some statistics to consider, provided by the Yale University Office of Admissions. For the class of 1976, Yale received 8,756 applications and admitted 2,313 for an admit rate of 26.8%. This year, for the class of 2010, Yale received 21,099 applications and admitted 1,823, accounting for the 8.6% admit rate. Yale's applicant pool was running steadily at around 13,000 applications for the classes of 1998 through 2004, however, it has risen annually since that time to 14,008 (for the class of 2005), to 15,004 (for the class of 2006), to 17,007 (for the class of 2007), to 19,006 (for the class of 2008), and to 19,451 (for the class of 2009).]
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Date: September 26th, 2006 12:23 AM Author: Mauve kitchen Subject: the 2010 numbers are off somewhat. There were a substantial number of WL admits, with the precise figure not yet reported. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6677739) |
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Date: September 24th, 2006 1:26 AM Author: opaque factory reset button codepig Not so long ago it was relatively easy to get into good b-schools too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6667656) |
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Date: September 24th, 2006 2:57 AM Author: Magical church building Even in the late 1960s and 1970s, it was easy to get into Ivy B-Schools. Many law school rejects went to Ivy graduate B-schools. Pres. Dubya, was rejected by U.of Texas's Law School at Austin, but he got into Harvard B-School. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6667934) |
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Date: September 24th, 2006 11:29 AM Author: opaque factory reset button codepig In the early 90's it wasn't so bad at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6668249) |
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Date: September 24th, 2006 11:40 AM Author: Magical church building That's correct also, it was harder than in the 60's, 70's and 80's. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6668292) |
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Date: September 24th, 2006 1:31 PM Author: Magical church building Do you have a link for the actual acceptance rates? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6668788) |
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Date: September 25th, 2006 11:43 PM Author: Thirsty institution sweet tailpipe It still is. No school has an average GMAT above 720. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6677433) |
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Date: September 26th, 2006 12:29 AM Author: Concupiscible magenta wagecucks think it'll ever change? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6677769) |
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Date: September 26th, 2006 12:18 AM Author: Mauve kitchen Subject: Some data: Summary of Yale College Admissions Class of 1980 to Class of 2008 Year Entered Class of Total Applications Total Admits Admit Rate Total Matrics Yield rate 1975 1979 52.7% (15.7% legacies) 1976 1980 9,387 2,481 26.4% 1,300 52.4% (15.6% legacies) 1977 1981 9,785 2,423 24.8% 1,330 54.9% (16.1% legacies) 1978 1982 10,015 2,464 24.6% 1,372 55.7% (16.3% legacies) 1979 1983 10,275 2,204 21.5% 1,276 57.9% (17.8% legacies) 1980 1984 10,304 2,130 20.7% 1,257 59.0% (18.7% legacies) 1981 1985 10,937 2,186 20.0% 1,296 59.3% (16.8% legacies) 1982 1986 11,023 2,189 19.9% 1,297 59.3% (18.5% legacies) 1983 1987 9,934 2,162 21.8% 1,255 57.5% (16% legacies) 1984 1988 12,035 2,274 18.9% 1,344 59.1% (14.8% legacies) 1985 1989 11,737 2,182 18.6% 1,278 58.6% (17.4% legacies) 1986 1990 12,528 2,269 18.1% 1,291 56.9% (15.9% legacies) 1987 1991 13,063 2,310 17.7% 1,312 56.8% (16.4% legacies) 1988 1992 12,797 2,370 18.5% 1,275 53.8% (15% legacies) 1989 1993 12,063 2,264 18.8% 1,279 56.5% (14.4% legacies) 1990 1994 11,922 2,354 19.7% 1,366 58.0% (11.5% legacies) 1991 1995 10,794 2,372 22.0% 1,290 54.4% * legacy rate drops to 11.2% 1992 1996 11,054 2,455 22.2% 1,326 54.0% (10% legacies) 1993 1997 10,705 2,453 22.9% 1,317 53.7% (9% legacies) 1994 1998 12,991 2,451 18.9% 1,308 53.4% (8.6% legacies) (556/432 EA) 1995 1999 12,620 2,521 20.0% 1,364 54.1% (10% legacies) 1996 2000 12,952 2,371 18.3% 1,409 59.4% * (ED) (413 + 70) (9.2% legacies) 1997 2001 12,046 2,144 17.8% 1,307 61.0% (461 + 58) (10.5% legacies) 1998 2002 11,947 2,100 17.6% 1,299 61.9% 1999 2003 13,270 2,135 16.1% 1,371 64.2% 2000 2004 12,887 2,084 16.2% 1,352 64.9% 2001 2005 14,809 2,038 13.8% 1,296 63.6% 2002 2006 15,466 2,009 13.0% 1,300 64.7% 2003 2007 17,735 2,014 11.4% 1,353 67.2% 2004 2008 19,682 1,958 9.9% 1,308 66.8% * (SCEA) (674 + 249) 2005 2009 19,448 1,880 1,323
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Date: September 26th, 2006 8:21 AM Author: Magical church building I have seen this data before, but I can't recall the link. Was it from the Yale web site itself?
Anyway, please post the link. Thanks in advance. |
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Date: September 26th, 2006 10:30 AM Author: Mauve kitchen Subject: No you haven't "seen this data before" I developed this chart myself from several sources. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=493610&forum_id=1#6679030) |
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Date: September 26th, 2006 10:31 AM Author: Magical church building Please post the links or your "sources".
The admit rates for Yale and number of applicants and admits are posted on the Fact Sheet of Yale for each class and the Common Data SET stats for Yale.
http://www.yale.edu/oir/factsheet.html
FACTSHEET --
Some Facts & Statistics About Yale University
Statistics on Current 2005-06 Freshmen Class |
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Date: September 26th, 2006 6:37 PM Author: Magical church building Subject: You did not develop any chart. It was published by Yale.: This is where I SAW the numbers in qustion before provided on the Yale web site.
http://www.yale.edu/oir/pierson_update.htm
A Yale Book of Numbers 1976 - 2000 Edited by Beverly Waters, Office of Institutional Research October, 2001
Section D: Yale Undergraduate Admissions and Information on Yale College Freshmen
4. Yale College Freshmen with Alumni Parents, 1976-1999
5. (figure) Yale College Freshmen with Alumni Parents as a % of Class Enrollment, 1976-1999
7. Summary of Yale College Admissions, 1979-2001
Download information in pdf form for the above from the link below
http://www.yale.edu/oir/pierson_update.htm
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Date: September 26th, 2006 9:58 AM Author: Magical church building Read the book:
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, by Nicholas Lehmann, Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1999.
for more insight on the OP's topic. |
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Date: September 26th, 2006 6:22 PM Author: Magical church building Subject: This is also of interest for the OP http://www.yale.edu/oir/pierson_update.htm
A Yale Book of Numbers 1976 - 2000 Edited by Beverly Waters, Office of Institutional Research October, 2001
This is an update of George W. Pierson's original book
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Date: September 26th, 2006 6:55 PM Author: Magical church building Subject: Read the entire history of Yale admissions from 1701 to 1983 To read the entire history of Yale admissions from 1701 to 1983 with FACTS and NUMBERS, please click on the following for the entire original book to download in pdf form.
http://www.yale.edu/oir/pierson_original.htm#A
A Yale Book of Numbers Historical Statistics of the College and University 1701 - 1976
by George W. Pierson
(This is an online converted version of the book published in 1983.)
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