We encourage students to look beyond admit rates when considering colleges.
There are no surveys on admit rates for students coming from post-bac programs, but consider: At N.Y.U., of 698 post-bacs who applied for the class entering in 2011, 24 were accepted — a 3.4 percent admit rate.
This could not be further from the truth, even at Ivy League institutions where admit rates dip into the single digits and application numbers rise exponentially every year.
Bruce Poch, a former dean of admissions at Pomona College in California, was reported recently by the New York Times as saying, "As kids see that the admit rates are brutal and dropping, they send more applications, which forces the colleges to lower their admit rates, which spurs the kids next year to send even more applications".
The overall admit rates averaged over the period 2003-2012 athehe various colleges should have been used.
Three moms quit their jobs, five quit the tennis league, and four of them spent New Year's Eve on CollegeImpossible.com analyzing conflicting reports of Ivy League admit rates.
While it is arguably fair to average the CPS student admit rates over 10 years due to the small and fluctuating numbers of applicants to any given college or university, it is not fair to use only the most recent (i.e., 2012) overall admit rates for comparison.
Presumably, there were 13 instead of 10 colleges listed in part because there were two pairs of schools with identical admit rates (although that fact alone should only yield 12 institutions).
Reviews of the admission patterns of several Ivy League schools do indeed show admit rates are up for international students and students who are the first in their families to go to college.
As must be well-known to the CPS college counselors, for the relevant undergraduate schools there has been a strong trend for the admit rates to decline with each passing year.
Forbes, US News, and Newsweek base part of their rankings on admit rates; a 2011 Harvard Business School report found a 1percentt increase in applicants for every one-rank improvement on US News' best colleges list.
