少量学校为了提升和保护入学率数据,故意把非常优秀,但可能被更强学校录取的学生拒掉, 这现象俗称塔夫茨(大学)综合症
这里要注意大部分私立名校,除了HYPSM, Caltech, Chicago等少数之外, 实行ED早申请, ED录取后不能反悔,必须上学,这个对入学率非常有帮助. 像杜克这样的名校,入学学生将近一半是通过ED搞定的.
(Duke和Cornell 2013的ED录取率达到~30%,Hopkins更达到36.7%. )
这里还有候补名单人数,以及最后从候补录用人数.
从数据可见,候补录用可能是很小的.
斯坦福去年WL一个都没取
Class of 2017 | Accepted | Enrolled | Yield | Total Invited to Wait List | Do you plan to accept students on your wait list? | Total Wait-Listed Students Accepted |
Boston University (Mass.) | 19,257 | 4,065 | 21.11% | 5,053 | Yes | 67 |
Brown University (R.I.) | 2,678 | 1,586 | 59.22% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
California Institute of Technology | 584 | 251 | 42.98% | 550 | No | N/A |
Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) | 4,680 | 1,481 | 31.65% | 4,891 | Yes | 40 |
Dartmouth College (N.H.) | 2,252 | 1,093 | 48.53% | About 1,000 | Yes | 40 - 50 |
Emory University (Ga.) | 4,592 | 1,366 | 29.75% | 4,113 | Yes | 25 |
George Washington University (D.C.) | 7,390 | 2,426 | 32.83% | 3,882 | Yes | 75-100 |
Georgia Institute of Technology | 7,142 | 2,729 | 38.21% | 2,605 | Yes | 100 |
Harvard (Mass.) | 2,029 | N/A | 82.00% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Johns Hopkins University (Md.) | 3,465 | 1,340 | 38.67% | 2,069 | Yes | 25 - 30 |
Princeton University (N.J.) | 1,931 | 1,292 | 68.7% | 1,395 | Yes | N/A |
Stanford University (Calif.) | 2,210 | 1,694 | 76.65% | 814 | N/A | N/A |
University of Chicago (Ill.) | 2,690 | 1,479 | 54.98% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | 15,432 | 6,452 | 41.81% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
University of Pennsylvania | 3,785 | 2,432 | 64.25% | 2,800 | N/A | N/A |
University of Southern California | 9,315 | 3,047 | 32.71% | 0 | N/A | N/A |
University of Wisconsin at Madison | 15,140 | 6,522 | 43.08% | 2,308 | No | N/A |
Vanderbilt University (Tenn.) | 3,901 | 1,618 | 41.48% | N/A | Yes | N/A |
Yale (Conn.) | 1,991 | N/A | 68.3% | 1,001 | N/A | N/A |