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College Acceptance RatesWhat do college acceptance rates say about your chances of getting into college? Well, that depends.Are you looking to get into Harvard? Yale? Columbia? Princeton? Stanford? MIT? West Virginia State University? Then you have a realistic chance at getting accepted into one of these seven colleges. West Virginia State University has a close to 100% acceptance rate, and so do many other colleges around the Nation. Harvard, on the other hand is experiencing record low acceptance rates, hovering at 7% in early 2009. That translates to 2, 046 applicants accepted out of 29,112. Not good.So averages don’t tell us much here. The only way to get an accurate read on the college acceptance rates of a particular college is to check on their specific acceptance rates. There are various online articles about different college acceptance rates at different colleges and universities, but recently, most articles focus on the falling college acceptance rates of the top colleges in the nation. So what about the other 99% of the colleges? The College Handbook 2010 and BeyondOne hard cover source I like is The College Handbook 2010 by the College Board. They list virtually every accredited college in the U.S. and provide information on what the freshman class will look like, such as GPA, class ranking, SAT or ACT scores, gender, and race. One interesting number is the percentage of applicants that are admitted. You could easily compare your statistics with the information in the book and make an educated guess on your chances of admission.If you look in The College Handbook 2010, you’ll probably be able to find several colleges in your geographical area or area of study, that you have a very good chance of getting into. They also specify their basis for selection, which may help you tailor your application a bit. There are more colleges than you might expect with college acceptance rates over 80%, and some going as high as 100%. Study the numbers carefully, and I think you might feel better about your chances. Collegesearch.comWhen you're thinking about acceptance rates at a particular college, don't forget to make sure you are a good match for the college that you are choosing. Make sure you're choosing a college for the right reasons. To see how your goals and interests match up with a college, go to College Search Tool They have a cool little tool that matches you to a college based upon your answers to specific questions. it can also tell you how well you match to a school you have chosen. The site is a treasure trove of information for students thinking about college, and is well worth the time spent scrolling through their articles. Very cool.Keeping Your Hopes Up!One word of advice. It truly might be getting harder to get into the top colleges, as the falling admission statistics indicate. But if your not looking at the top universities, your chances are still good.Keep in mind that the internet has made applying to college much easier, and more competitive. The internet gives us almost instantaneous information on what colleges are looking for, how to beef up your application, how to get help with your SAT or ACT, how to write a better college essay, and how to get online tutoring for just about everything. This along with the greater acceptance of the use of the common application is providing greater numbers of applications. This may be a partial explanation why the accetance rates are down...colleges are receiving (perhaps) more applications from less qualified applicants. I don’t really have any scientific proof behind this theory, but it seems plausible. Kinda. Return from College Acceptance Rates to TutorTrend Homepage
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