Admission says yes to 12 percent of applicants
For the Class of 2004, 1,670 (12.2 percent) of the 13,654
applicants were offered admission.
Of those 1,670, 35 percent were admitted in the Early
Decision process and 65 percent in the Regular Decision
process. The enrollment target for the class is 1,166. Last
year's admit rate was 11.3 percent.
According to Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon, 52 percent
of this year's applicants had SATs of 1400 or higher, and 52
percent also had GPAs of 3.8 or higher (including more than
4,000 applicants with GPAs of 4.0). "The great majority were
also highly accomplished in one or more activities outside
the classroom," he said.
Of the offers of admission, 50 percent were to men and 50
percent to women. Thirty-five percent indicated a minority
background (compared to 33 percent last year), and nine
percent are non-US citizens (compared to six percent last
year). An additional one or two percent are international
students with at least one parent who also holds US
citizenship.
"At this particular time of the year," Hargadon said,
"those of us who have just finished months of long days and
nights reading and rereading applications are far less
conscious of the various categories into which we are asked
to place our applicants in reporting summary data than we
are of the individual applicants, from among whom we have
had to make unimaginably difficult decisions.
"As has been true for many years," he added, "our
applicant group included several thousand terrific young men
and women to whom we could not offer admission but whom we'd
have been happy to admit were our freshman class larger than
it is."
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