<p>The College receives approximately 4,700 applications for a .first-year class of 490-500
students, and the Admission Committee is honored by your expressed interest in Connecticut.</p>
<p>This stats is from supplement of Connecticut College. But the admissions rate of the college is 40+% according to collegeboard. But 500 out of 4700 makes around 10 % only. Can someone explain?</p>
<p>not everyone that is accepted in to Conn College decides to go there. as a result the school needs to accept a lot more people than they actually have room for. the number of admitted students that enroll in the university is referred to as the yield. it is an important factor in many rankings. the university uses the yield numbers from previous years to work out how many acceptances they need to award. acceptance decisions are also influenced by the uni's yield considerations.</p>
<p>they typically accept around one third of applicants, and about one third of those accepted choose to matriculate</p>
<p>This is one of several reasons why you need to check college statistics carefully, a number of schools post figures on "Average scores of our admitted class", without revealing that most of the students who were admitted chose not to matriculate, including many of them with the highest scores. When you can, get figures on the (matriculated) freshman class rather than the admitted class.</p>
<p>that's good advice mikalye</p>