<p>Someone please help me comprehend this. </p>
<p>Northeastern (the school I'm going to attend in the fall) recieved 30,000 applications and admitted around 3,000 students.
I've heard Tufts recieved 16,000 and admitted 1,600, Colby had 6,000 and admitted 600. (I didn't apply to either, I just heard talk about this around my school.) And those are just a few examples that I've got off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Is it really possibly that acceptance rates for many schools are dropping to those of Ivies? Schools that had a 30-40% rate dropping to around 10%?</p>
<p>I think the people you talked to may have smoked something beforehand. Either that or they don't understand the concept of yield.</p>
<p>I think you can confusing "admit" and extend offers to. Northwestern may admit 10% but I believe they still extend offers to at least 20%.</p>
<p>Admit Rate is different from Matriculation Rate.</p>
<p>Norcal - It was my guidance counselor. </p>
<p>Because if these statistics are true, then most schools have grossly miscalculated their yield.</p>
<p>It seems your counselor confused admit with freshman class size.
No school expects all the admitted students to attend. It is quite possible, however, that the freshman class size is expected to be 10% of applications.</p>
<p>Our overall applications this year were closer to 4,700; and for the regular admission round just completed, we mailed in the neighborhood of 1,200 offers of admission. If one takes into account Early Decision (we have two rounds of ED), our overall acceptance rate this year, I'm told, is 30.8%, our lowest ever (we've been between 33-38% over the last ten years). And over that time, we've also learned that maybe one out of three students who receive our offers, actually matriculates at our school ("yield"). "mominva" is right-- even at Harvard, there are more who are admitted than who matriculate, as not everyone in the former group will choose to be in the latter. (Most, but not everyone....)</p>