<p>With the top universities having dwindling acceptances flying into student's mailboxes the last couple years, are the yield rates dropping? If so why are the acceptance rates dropping?</p>
<p>Acceptance rate = number of seats / number of applicants</p>
<p>The numerator remains relatively constant from year to year as there are only so many seats in the fr class. Meanwhile the denominator increases steadily due to students applying to larger numbers of schools (facilitated by the CA and driven by the belief that more applications means better chances). This results in lower acceptance rates.</p>
<p>Well if more people are applying to more schools that would give them several options which, in turn, would lower the yield rate though,</p>
<p>The number of applicant increased for many top schools, but the acceptance rate decrease. I don‘t think the yield rate would be much affected as the number of admitted students were not changed much.</p>