<p>On collegeboard.com, the Vanderbilt profile now says 25%. This surprised me. I know Vanderbilt is a very good school, but the last time I checked the admit rate was around 33%.</p>
<p>Last year’s initial overall admit rate was 23%. It rose after they took some kids off the waitlist last summer. The waitlist was used heavily last year as the admissions folks worked really hard to make sure they could house everyone in the Commons. Previously when the yield had been higher than predicted, the overflow was accommodated by releasing upperclassmen from their on-campus housing commitment and squeezing freshman into odd spots such as doubles and singles in Towers. This is no longer acceptable, so they played their cards conservatively. With the increase in applications and the uncertain economy, I doubt the acceptance rate will be significantly larger. In fact, if you go back in the forum to early Feb., you’ll notice that a record number of ED applicants were accepted into the class of '13, so the number of available RD slots is down a bit.</p>
<p>For the Class of 2011 that started in fall 2007, the admit rate was 33%.
For the Class of 2012 that started in fall 2008, the admit rate was 25%.</p>
<p>It will probably be around 20-22 this year</p>
<p>wow, i didn’t know that. that’s a lot lower than i thought. thanks</p>
<p>With the increase in applications and the uncertain economy, I doubt the acceptance rate will be significantly larger. In fact, if you go back in the forum to early Feb., you’ll notice that a record number of ED applicants were accepted into the class of '13, so the number of available RD slots is down a bit.</p>
<p>I think you mean lower. ;)</p>
<p>And I agree with VandyClassof2013. 20% seems about right.</p>
<p>Though, I would think they would increase acceptances a little bit because they know people are more dependent on financial aid now and more people who get accepted won’t be able to go because of lack of funds.</p>
<p>Yet, I remember Thom or Brad writing that they are keeping the acceptance rate low this year still.</p>
<p>Do you think they’ll waitlist more because of the limited number of spots in the commons and the economic times? Thus making their admission rate lower and yield higher</p>
<p>Yes, I definitely think they’re going to pull a WashU this year.</p>
<p>But I still don’t think the yield will be much higher.</p>
<p>The gross admissions rate excluding the wait list admits will be under 20% easily; count it. I was thinking about this the other day (I’m way too interested in this stuff), and when you factor in all those Minority Program invites (let’s go ahead and assume that the game Vandy plays here boosts the yield for that pool (ED yield = 99%?, Mosaic yield = 55%?) which Admissions is surely aware of, that changes the dynamics of RD numbers even more.</p>
<p>If I were a Kleenex executive, I’d start rolling out some ads now because April is going to be their golden month.</p>
<p>Then again, so many kids are going to get in from the wait list, so don’t fret.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve basically convinced myself I’m going to get waitlisted after researching and looking at sites of stats of people applying and whatnot. Last year, I probably would have gotten accepted, but this year is pretty dismal for an acceptance for me.</p>
<p>But I’m just hoping to get in off the waitlist since I’m ahead on demonstrated interest, since I went to the Vanderbilt PAVE summer program and all.</p>
<p>the admission rate for regular decision will be really really low this year. vandy admitted a bigger proportion of the class in ED and the applications skyrocketed. follow closely:</p>
<p>considering vandy wants to admit 1570 students this year, and 40% of the class has been filled in early decision, that leaves 942 spots left. vanderbilt had about 19700 applications overall. and then admitted 37% of the ED pool, so 1700 of the applications were for early decision. which means at least 18000 applications are left for those 942 spots. Last year vanderbilt had a 40% yield, in other words 2 out of every 5 acceptances go to vanderbilt. which means that to fill the 942 remaining spots, they will give out 2355 acceptances (lets go with 2500 so we error of the side of a higher acceptance rate) Its a pretty safe bet that vandy will admit less than 2500 this year. so the admit rate for regular decision should be slightly less than (2500/18000 = ) 13.8%.</p>
<p>Yes, I’ve done those numbers as well. </p>
<p>But the question is will they have a different projected yield because of the economy?</p>
<p>Like I’ve said, more people admitted this year won’t go because of not enough money. There have already been people on this board saying they got admitted but aren’t going because of no scholarships. So they might slightly raise the acceptance rate knowing this.</p>
<p>But then again, like you guys have also said, they’ll just use the waitlist more. I predict 100-200 students off the waitlist this year.</p>
<p>I predict 17%.</p>
<p>including the high ED rate or no?</p>
<p>Probably non ED.</p>
<p>Luke, you’re getting in anyway.</p>
<p>As a sidenote, someone said that the Mosaic yield might be 55%. Though this may be fact based, my friend who went to the program this weekend said many, many of the people she met were more likely going to other schools next year. So I, personally, would think that the Mosaic yield would be much lower than that.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I’m betting lots of MOSAIC invitees get into HYP. With the economy, etc., it would make sense to go to one of those Big 3 (the best FinAid in the country).</p>
<p>and hilsa, you don’t know that :)</p>
<p>Well then, sounds like Mosaic is a huge waste of time and money then. Good detective work, team.</p>
<p>VandySAE…i like your humor. Perhaps I’ll run into you sometime next year and won’t know it. I always think about the irony of these “anonymous” message boards. Good times.</p>
<p>vandyclass, I think you are forgetting to consider that the overall yield rate of 40% = BOTH the yield of ED (which is 99%+) and also the RD pool. So the yield for the RD pool alone would be lower than 40%, so they would have to accept more than ~2300-2500 RD applicants.</p>
<p>Again, this year is probably kinda wack, for lack of a better term. So, I am sure they are putting more people on the wait-list, like everyone else has mentioned. Anyway, good luck everyone (and hilsa, I am confident that you have a great chance on getting accepted…sheesh, a 4.0 UW at your school is something to proud of!)</p>
<p>It’s true. I went to MOSIAC and kept hearing chatter about HYP, Cornell, Penn, MIT, Wash U, Duke, Rice etc…</p>