Admissions Statistics Fall 2018 vs Fall 2017

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Total Applications For Fall 2017 vs Fall 2018

YTD 2017 = 52,375

YTD 2018 = 52,513

Accepted YTD 2017 19,470
Accepted YTD 2018 21,513

So far the admitted number of applicants for Fall 2018 is higher this year vs last year’s. For all of fall of 2017, there were a total of 52,427 applications . The number of accepted students totaled 22,939 (about 43.75%) and about 7136 ended enrolling (about 31.1% yield)

I would think that OSU will try to keep these numbers very close to last year’s with a slightly less percentage of accepted in order to keep it even more competitive. Since the number of accepted students is running a little higher than YTD 2017, there is a very good chance that they will start to pay attention to those paying the commitment fees/enrollment fees. So far about 2760 have done so. This will probably affect who gets accepted from here on out including those applicants who have been deferred or wait listed…

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Based on these numbers, there might less students getting admitted as we move into the month of March. They are getting much closer to the total number of admitted students from last year. It does not seem to look very favorable to those deferred or on the wait list. I just hope I am wrong

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They could be looking for more students this year. They had nearly 7900 students start in Fall 2016, and then 7100 in Fall 2017. The reduction in Fall 2017 was likely because of limited space in dorms and 2 year residential requirement. With Fall 2016 class moving off dorms, they might be looking for closer to 8000 students again.

They have some interest in keeping acceptance rate low, because it improves their ranking, but they also need tuition (and associated student subsidy) as well as room and board from more students.

Please note that this is all a personal guess and not based on any inside knowledge.