Stanford admits 754 early applicants

The number of high school students seeking early admission to the Class of 2015 – 5,929 applicants – has set a new record for Stanford.
Stanford Report: Decmber 13, 2010

Stanford has sent acceptance letters to 754 applicants, or 12.7 percent of those who applied, the Office of Undergraduate Admission announced today.

"We continue to attract an exceptional number of highly competitive candidates and we are honored by the interest they have shown in Stanford," said Richard H. Shaw, dean of admission and financial aid.

Students who apply through Stanford's restrictive early action program may consider all of their college options before responding.

Stanford notified all of the early applicants of its decisions – admitted, denied or deferred to the regular decision round – by email Friday afternoon.

More than 26,000 students are expected to apply for admission by Jan. 1.

Students admitted under both programs have until May 1 to accept Stanford's offers.

Class of 2009 Acceptances

This is in response to Y5 parent's query on the college destinations of the recent alumni, by which I assume he or she is referring to the Class of 2009. I wouldn't want to link names to particular colleges for two reasons: (1) not everyone likes having their college destinations being revealed by an 'unauthorized' party (2) the only information with real value to a parent is where our students have been accepted, not where they ultimately choose to enroll. In fact, I'd say that the places where our students have been accepted is far more important because it reveals more about the capabilities of our graduating class, instead of ultimate enrollment decisions which are shaped by things such as financial constraints or preference for one location/culture over another and so on. I hope you also understand why I am not including the number of acceptances because once again, it will add little value while possibly creating misconceptions about one's probabilistic chances (when with universities of this caliber, it's often just a crapshoot).

Since there's been no official document collating all our acceptances, I'm compiling to the best of my knowledge an admittedly incomplete list of places where members of the Class of 2009 have been accepted. If anyone would like to add on places that I have either overlooked or am unaware of, please do. (Vanessa: I've added what I've gleaned from Open House.) For now, here's the list:

Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
National University of Singapore
Singapore Management University
Singapore University of Technology and Design

US
Brandeis University
California Institute of Technology
Cornell University
Duke University
Harvey Mudd College
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Reed College
Rice University
Stanford University
Tufts University
University of California (Berkeley)
University of California (Los Angeles)
University of Chicago
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Michigan (Ann-Arbor)
University of Texas (Austin)
Wellesley College
Yale University

Australia
University of Adelaide
University of Melbourne
University of New South Wales
University of Queensland
University of Western Australia

UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales)
Bristol University
Cambridge University
Durham University
Imperial College London
King's College London
Oxford University
University College London
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of Nottingham
University of St Andrews
University of Warwick
University of York

Last updated: 25th April 2010

Financial aid at need-aware schools like Stanford

Reproduced from a discussion forum (answers my own)

Q: Stanford tells you straight up that admissions as an international who needs FA is extremely competitive, but other schools don't (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc). But won't these other schools technically profit off me anyway?

A: The international need-blind schools are truly need-blind. There the admissions department and financial aid department are completely separate. International students are allowed to apply for aid at any time in the process (including after being admitted) Hence, those schools are equally competitive for internationals-with-aid and internationals-without-aid.


Stanford, on the other hand, is much more competitive for international students who need aid. Those who need aid are considered separately, and decisions are made depending on how much Stanford wants the student vs. how much money Stanford has.

Q: How selective is Stanford for an international student who doesn't need aid? Would they take him if his stats were low? If his stats were average? Have you seen this situation before? (I.e. Stanford takes a student whose grades aren't as high as another who applied for financial aid)

A: International students who don't apply for aid are held to equally high standards as American students. They do not cut slack. All the internationals accepted to Stanford that I know are excellent students. I would describe the situation as ''much more difficult for internationals who need aid" NOT as ''easier for international who don't need aid".


Appendix. List of US unis that are need-blind to internationals
Amherst C, Dartmouth C, Harvard U, MIT, Princeton U, Williams C, Yale U, [edit] Cornell U offers international need-blind for Cornell's class of 2014 onwards![/edit]

University will maintain international student aid

I saw this in the Stanford daily and thought it was interesting to put it up:

University will maintain international student aid
As the endowment tumbled by 27 percent, University officials vowed to maintain Stanford’s current financial aid system. Lesser known, however, was their promise to uphold the same policies for international students on financial aid.

According to Director of Financial Aid Karen Cooper, the University will uphold the same pledge in financial aid security to international students, who comprise approximately seven percent of the total undergraduate population.

The actual percentage of international students on aid is nearly half that of the total undergrads — approximately 25 percent of international students receive need-based aid directly from the University, compared to 48 percent of all undergraduates.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=1036514

University acceptances

Average CAPs for acceptances to universities of interest.

Berkeley: 4.68
UCLA: 4.13
Caltech: 4.76
Cambridge: 4.65
Cornell: 4.64
Duke: 4.55
Edinburgh: 3.81
Harvard: 4.76
UIUC: 3.72
Imperial: 4.18
JHU: 4.46
King's: 4.41
UCL: 4.28
MIT: 4.66
NTU: 3.74
NUS: 3.78
Princeton: 4.76
Queensland: 3.54
SMU: 3.82
Stanford: 4.59
Sydney: 3.63
Warwick: 4.13
Yale: 4.76

Make your own conclusions about these average scores. Please remember that this is only for the the first batch; it is a very small batch, and just about no school received more than 10 applications (besides the local universities) from our school. The acceptance rate is even lower, so the average scores are just indicators.

I have the full range of stats for all these universities including acceptance rates and average SAT scores. If you would like to see the list, please email me, tell me your connection to NUSH (student, parent, etc), and give me some proof, and I'll send it back to you. Alternatively, NUS High students, you can always go into Naviance and access this list yourselves.

Data on the lowest accepted CAPs are available for some of the universities but they aren't all conveniently located on one page, so if you would like the data please specify which school you want it for. Thanks.

Admit rate for the top schools in US this year.

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/01/23213/

The University has admitted 9.79 percent of the 21,964 applicants who sought admission to the Class of 2013. Only 2,150 members of the largest applicant pool in the University’s history were offered spots in the second admission cycle without Early Decision.

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Getting more and more competitive...

Early admission rate.

Yale admitted 13.4 percent of its early action applicants for the class of 2013, a significant drop from last year’s 18.1 percent early admission rate, according to the Yale Daily News. 742 early applicants were admitted from a record applicant pool of 5,557. In addition, the admissions office reports to have sent rejection letters to more than twice as many early applicants as they did last year, denying 38.3 percent of applicants and deferring 47.6 percent to the regular decision period. According to the article, Yale decided to admit fewer students this time because an unexpectedly high number of students admitted early from the class of 2012 chose to enroll.

Stanford accepted 689 of the 5,363 applicants to the Class of 2013, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admission. More than 25,000 students are expected to apply to Stanford through the regular admission process. The expected overall admit rate to be lower than 9 percent, the lowest rate in Stanford's history.

MIT admitted 540 of the more than 5,000 early action applicants.

http://inlikeme.com/news/college-university-news/early-admission-update-yale-stanford-mit.html

That works out to be about, let's see, 12.8% for Stanford, 13.4% for Yale, and about 11% for MIT. Even for early admits!

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The number of early decision applications decreased for the third year in a row, admissions officials announced yesterday.

(This site is good, it shows the number of applicants you are up against for the ivy league schools and the trend every year.)

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/12/04/News/Early.Decision.Applications.Drop.8.Percent.Interactive.Feature-3569319.shtml

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Yale admitted 13.4 percent of early action applicants to the class of 2013, a sharp drop from last year’s 18.1 percent early admission rate. A total of 742 early applicants were granted admission from a record pool of 5,557, Dean of Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said. The admissions office significantly increased the number of students rejected rather than deferred in the early round, a shift that garnered unanimous approval from a dozen college counselors interviewed.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26970

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Dartmouth has accepted 401 students into the Class of 2013 through the early decision admissions program. Students admitted in the early decision program will comprise approximately 35 percent of the class that matriculates in the fall of 2009. A total of 1,550 early decision applications were received, the most ever, an increase of 9 percent over last year. Students were notified via a secure website on December 10.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/12/11.html

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Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Getting admitted to Harvard College or another selective university in the U.S. is likely to grow more difficult this year because of a record number of applicants, many attracted by financial aid.

More than 29,000 students applied to Harvard, a 5.6 percent increase, breaking last year’s record of 27,462, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school said yesterday. Almost 78 percent of the applicants are seeking financial aid, compared with 73 percent a year ago, school officials said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aqaX89Rg1pnc&refer=us