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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by xvedejas on Sunday October 05, 2014 @07:33PM (#8413768)
Caltech gets over 5000 applicants each year* for nominally 235 openings. Where are your numbers coming from?

* http://collegeadmissions100.com/caltech-admission-stats/

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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by tzs on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:30PM (#8413890)
The first column is rounded. My data source (Forbes [1]) had 231 for Caltech class size, which I rounded to 200. It's also a few years old.

I simply botched the second column. The second column should be relabeled "A Number Smaller Than The Number Of Applicants, Probably By A Factor of 1.2 to 4". :-)

It was calculated from the class size and the acceptance rate. I forgot that I needed to also take a look at the percentage of the admitted who enrolled, since many people are admitted to multiple schools so not all admitted to a given school enroll.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/94/opinions_college08_Ameri...

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