<p>congrats to all the SC admits.</p>
<p>This was recently updated.</p>
<p>Note how long the waiting lists are for many of these colleges.</p>
<p>Where is Notre Dame on the list?</p>
<p>Notre Dame usually posts data much later in the year. I checked on 2010 and their admit rate for 2010 was 29%. I do not have the number for 2011 or 2012.</p>
<p>What I’d really like to see is the number of USC Spring admits bumped to fall and the number of students admitted to both semesters via appeal. The latter seemed especially high and wonder if USC will consider a wait list next year.</p>
<p>Maybe this is a dumb question, but does USC count the Spring acceptances as part of their “total accepted”? I would assume not? but I wonder what the acceptance total is for the spring admits.</p>
<p>There were another 1000 students admitted for Spring, so they aren’t counted as part of the 8400.</p>
<p>[USC</a> acceptance rate drops four percent|Daily Trojan](<a href=“http://dailytrojan.com/2012/03/28/usc-acceptance-rate-drops-four-percent/]USC”>USC acceptance rate drops four percent - Daily Trojan)</p>
<p>I’m wondering about the exact same statistics as CollegeMom48. However, it should surprise no one that the yield will much lower this year because of the Common App, and they admitted fewer students this year than last year to begin with. So it makes sense that more students are being bumped from Spring to Fall and more appeals are being admitted than before. I am surprised, however, by the seemingly large number of appeals that are being admitted for fall. Did all the Spring admits get moved up, or are some of them being “leapfrogged” by those who appealed?</p>
<p>I was really surprised that USC admissions expected to retain its yield percentage the first year on common app and accepted virtually the same number of students as the previous year. Anecdotally it looks like they miscalculated. I cant complain as my D was moved from spring to fall soon after May 1. I doubt there was much leapfrogging of denied applicants let in on appeal over spring admits, that doesn’t make much sense. It’s a mystery why USC admissions apparently thought the university would be immune to the yield pressure experienced by other selective schools during their transition to the common app.</p>
<p>Are those acceptance rates correct? The acceptance letter I received said (verbatim): “Congratulations! You will be part of a very select group: the 2,650 diverse, talented and highly motivated individuals who will be the newest members of the Trojan Family. You stood out among more than 41,000 other applicants…”</p>
<p>majoreco, your letter refers to the number of students who commit to USC – who will comprise the incoming class. The 8400 refers to the number of students USC accepted. The number of accepted students who actually commit determines the yield.</p>
<p>There were many students admitted on appeal who were given fall admission over earlier spring admits - just read the “appealed” thread. *From what I can see many of the fall appeals were for Marshall and Dornsife. *My D was a spring to fall bump in Dornsife but a friend remains a spring admit in Annenberg</p>
<p>All colleges accept more students than they expect to enroll.</p>
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<p>That is the estimated number of students that USC expects will comprise of the freshman class. You may see the term yield used which refers to percentage of admitted students who actually commit.</p>
<p>collegemom48, what we don’t know is how many (if any) Dormsife spring admits were not bumped up. </p>
<p>There was a lot of discussion about this issue in the winter, when USC said it would not increase the number of admitted student despite a huge jump in applications. Many here insisted USC admissions knew exactly what it was doing despite ample evidence that the common app exponentially increases the number of applications from students who are just shopping. </p>
<p>I predict there will be more than 8400 initial offers of admission to the class of 2017.</p>
<p>I’ll jump in and guess that USC is relatively happy with the results this year. They admitted more than the usual number of Spring admits (I believe there were about 500 spring admits the previous year vs. about 1000 this year), and that works to fill in for lowered yield if and as it occurs. This is analogous to other schools’ waitlists–only USC guarantees a spot in the Spring for those selected rather than traditional waitlistees who have no such guarantee.</p>
<p>It will take a few years to see the real pattern in applications vs. yield, so my prediction is things stay status quo for 2017. But we’ll see!</p>
<p>Even though some students had successful appeals there were still around 36,000 seniors who were not admitted. That is a large pool of students.</p>
<p>Looking at the stats, there are 9558 total admits (46030 - 36472), 8381 Fall 2012 admits. This means 1177 Spring 2013 or appeal admits. On the official acceptance date, they said there were 1000 Spring 2013 admits, this means 177 successful appeals with 1000 total appeals.</p>
<p>Thus, the appeal success rate is 17.7% for this year.</p>
<p>I may be wrong, just guessing from the numbers.</p>