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For over 30,000 high school students, the wait is finally over.</p>
<p>This afternoon, with the release of Yale’s admissions decisions, only 6.26 percent of applicants received offers of admission to the class of 2018 — the second consecutive year in which the University has set a record-low acceptance rate. The Undergraduate Admissions Office offered admission to 1,935 students from an applicant pool of 30,932. Last year, the University offered seats to more students — 1,991 — despite a smaller pool of 29,610 applicants, making for a 6.72 percent clip. Yale’s admission rate hovered around 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2011 but this year marks the third consecutive year that the University is in the 6 percent range.
<p>So far, I haven’t been able to find it. Maybe Jeremiah Quinlan isn’t going to break out the RD rate this year, as I imagine the figure is pretty discouraging. (Harvard’s RD rate is 3.1%, so I imagine Yale’s is about 4.5%.)</p>
<p>In years past, Yale mentioned the number of students who were waitlisted in their admissions announcement, but haven’t done so this year. At least not yet.</p>
<p>Looks like Yale admits fewer students than they did last year. Since there was no over-enrollment last year, I suppose they are expecting higher yield? Are there good reasons for that expectation?</p>
<p>Bulldog2017: You are right. The data I had did not include deferrals, hence I forgot about them, but the RD rate should include EA applicants who have been referred to the RD pool for re-consideration.</p>
<p>I honestly wouldn’t expect a significant rise is yield this year as it’s been fairly steady at around 68% for the last few years ( <a href=“Steady yield rate for Class of 2017 - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/09/20/web-yheadline-here-57/</a> ). If we assume the same yield from last year (68.3%), that would give a class of 1,322. Additionally, there are 39 kids from last year who deferred enrollment, bringing the class size up to 1,361. They may use the waitlist or may not, depending on how that yield number actually turns out.</p>
<p>@bulldog: So if we assume the yield rate will stay at a similar level as last year’s, wouldn’t admitting fewer students yield a smaller class than last year, considering there had been students (60+?) taking a gap year the year before last as well? I wonder if the fewer admits in RD at Harvard this year would have some impact on Yale’s yield if it means fewer cross-admits between H and Y?</p>
<p>It’s really hard to guess what the yield rate is going to be and how other factors will affect it. Admissions might be trying to get a smaller class this year as I know that some of the colleges are have problems with space. Who knows. We’ll all find out in May!</p>
<p>Seeing how selective Yale was for the Class of 2018 admissions round, I wouldn’t be surprised if Yale has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard’s this year.</p>