Stanford, Harvard, others say acceptance rates falling
If you’re applying to any of the United States’s top colleges or universities, it might be a good time to downgrade your expectations. Because apparently schools are falling into a deep love affair with the rejection letter.
In fact, the odds of getting grim news from a school like Harvard or Stanford are becoming impressively high, The New York Times reported.
Stanford turned away 95 percent of their applicants this year, with Harvard and Yale rejecting closer to 94 perfect. Other top schools like MIT, Columbia, Princeton, and the University of Chicago weren’t much better.
The report says the low acceptance rates are stemming from a combination of more “high-achieving applicants’’ (including foreign students looking to attend American schools) and a streamlined application process that features more online applications and more universally accepted forms like the Common Application.
From the Times:
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Acceptance rates are so low that even administrators are surprised. Richard H. Shaw, the dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford, told the Times he was “sort of in shock’’ about how low the numbers have gotten, and that he has no idea when they will stop declining.
Unless you’re an unusually big fan of the word “no,’’ you should probably aim lower. And hey, don’t be upset about it. Getting into Ivy League schools is hard, and not everyone can be Kwasi Enin.
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