<p>I'm just curious. It seems like most of the other top schools have released their yield rates. What was UChicago's?</p>
<p>UChicago admissions office is not confident. It should have much lower yield than HYPSM, so, better say nothing.</p>
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<p>Guess most of them published preliminary yield numbers.</p>
<p>We’re about to enter August…still no word? I’m really surprised there have been no developments. Have they just forgotten?</p>
<p>TheBanker, what class size do you think it’s going to be for the Class of 2018? The University has admitted 2,304 students. How many do you think will matriculate? 1,420 was the prediction by Chicago which means around 62%. My guess is that it’s in the low 60%. Anything higher than 65% would mean over enrollment again, IMHO. </p>
<p>They would have revealed the yield if it was 62%. </p>
<p>My hunch is that the yield is lower than expected. Certainly plausible considering the drop in applications this year (the Common App glitch doesn’t seem to explain such a large decline). Their strategy might be to quietly release the yield rate later on, instead of at the same time as other top privates. They are maybe trying to save face. I’d say the yield is in the high 50’s, marginally higher than class of 2017’s. </p>
<p>EDIT: A Facebook search shows that the class of 2018 page has 1,564 members. Some of these members are from the admissions office or are part of student government/whatever, but that still seems like a high number of members. It’s possible that they drastically overenrolled this year and are scrambling to get students to take a gap year and matriculate in 2019, since housing won’t be able to support them. Whatever the case, this is great news for the yield rate - we might be looking at mid/high 60’s?</p>
<p><a href=“UChicago Class of 2018 | Facebook”>UChicago Class of 2018 | Facebook;
<p>Why the obsession over a few points of yield this way or that? It doesn’t matter to anyone, unless maybe you are an entering first year and you might get stuck in a forced triple because the yield was too high. It’s a stupid metric for comparing colleges, because it’s fairly easy to manipulate within a range (more use of waitlist = higher yield), because it’s affected a lot by ED, so comparing yields between schools with ED and schools without it is apples and oranges, and because sometimes all it measures is how well admissions staffs predict who will choose the college. Which isn’t that interesting to the general public. Personally, as a University of Chicago fan, I would rather see them go after the best students, and accept that they will lose some to other colleges, than that they target only students who won’t have other attractive options.</p>
<p>The class of 2015 group has nearly 2000 members. The class of 2014 group has 1700 members. Also, the group is an admitted students group. It doesn’t tell you how many students have chosen to matriculate.</p>
<p>Having said that, I agree with JHS. </p>
<p>Still interested in hearing about the yield rate… @UChicago do you know when this will be released?</p>
<p>I suspect that we’ll see the yield rate whenever they think the yield rate won’t cause a stir–this late, I’m betting it’s either down a few percent, or they’re having serious space issues. Chicago’s forward momentum is beginning to stabilize–we’re looking at the beginning of a more “predictable” admissions climate, IMO.</p>
<p>Frankly, I am more concerned with the possibility of a potentially higher yield this year which would imply over enrollment, again, hence “serious space issue.” On the other hand, down a few percentage point in yield would not be that bad since it’d still be in the low fifties which I seriously doubt that would happen.</p>
<p>Incoming UofC freshman here.
I was put in a double. Are there really some triples? I was put in South with 1 room mate. Where would the university put the “leftover” incoming freshmen? </p>
<p>We have not yet published our official yield rate for the Class of 2018, but plan to do so in the early fall through our news office (news.uchicago.edu). We are happy to report that our yield rate has increased over past years. </p>
<p>why do you guys care so much lol? in any case chicago starts later than the other schools so it can’t publish official stats for yield yet… most schools are only able to publish official yield after students actually matriculate at the university </p>
<p>The yield has NOT fallen. It has increased.</p>
<p>Having said that, if the yield increases by less than 9 percentage points, the college will not reach its target enrollment. </p>
<p>This is interesting, incomplete, and anecdotal evidence of yield and relative preferences.
<a href=“Which Colleges Do Students Pick? - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/04/upshot/college-picks.html</a></p>
<p>saw a slide at a parents thing this week which i believe said 1221 students (or 81% of the class) had completed some survey or other. that would make the yield 65% if 2304 were admitted.</p>