<p>So on collegeboard it says the acceptance rate is 70%.
The average SAT scores aren't all that high.</p>
<p>Yet I go to their website and I find this..</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman</a> Institute of Technology : Admissions</p>
<p>465/3554 is a 13% acceptance rate??</p>
<p>Can someone please explain this.. I think I'm missing something here.</p>
<p>There were 3554 applications for 465 slots,but the school accepts more than 465 (as do all schools). Yield is the rate at which accepted students ‘accept back’ - actually enroll and that varies a lot from school to school. Rose accepted about 1200 of the applicants last year (according to the Common Data Set). The actual acceptance rate is about 30%. I think it’s a fine school.</p>
<p>465 is how many enrolled. 3354 applied.</p>
<p>The 70% acceptance rate is correct.</p>
<p>Per page 6 of the most recent common data set, Rose Hulman had received 3,554 applications, of which they accepted 2,495 (70.2%). Of the 2,495 accepted, 465 actually enrolled at the school.</p>
<p><a href=“404 | Rose-Hulman”>404 | Rose-Hulman;
<p>Interestingly enough, the acceptance letter actually includes wording that makes it sound like the yield rate is the acceptance rate! It is not. Rose is a selective school and a very good one, but the acceptance rate may be said by some to be “high” in comparison to other schools of its caliber. This goes back to the self-selecting factor of Rose students and the fact that many of them are also accepted at places like MIT, Caltech, IIT, Michigan, etc., which may be better fits depending on the student in question.</p>
<p>EDIT: My mistake–it wasn’t the acceptance letter that includes that note; it was some other kind of admissions paraphernalia that I had seen while I visited Rose.</p>