Not sure if you’re calling me a fool, but the yield at Davidson has actually been fairly stable (possibly because, like many schools, they manage their yield using Early Decision and other approaches), and strangely, presents a funny pattern:
2014: 42
2013: 40
2012: 42
2011: 40
2010: 42
(All values from IPEDS except the 2014 data).
If this amusing coincidental pattern were to continue, and yield fell to 40% this year, then Davidson admit rate would be 23.4% (i.e., (500÷0.4)÷5350).
^^ Close enough, the yield last year was 41.66 with 1205 admissions and 502 enrolled. Davidson is indeed stable.
Does anyone have data from Chapel Hill?
Is there data from any of the Seven Sisters out yet other than Barnard?
Smith
Wellesley
Mount Holyoke
Bryn Mawr
How do you guys find this? Do you just have to wait for the CDS to be released?
Can any one help me with data from Purdue. I am wait listed for engineering UG?
What a difference 3 years makes. D2 graduated 4th in class/SAT 2210, wait listed at all her top 3, ended up at Boston University where she is doing very well (her dream of watching Tom Brady in the superbowl winner parade this year was icing on the cake for her). But, now D3 just shy of top 5% of her class/2060 SAT, but a killer forensics competitor in the state acceptances to 8 of 9 (waitlisted at Reed), her top 3 Mt. Holyoke, Hampshire College and Smith College with Hampshire College having the edge at the moment. (others were Drew, Marymount Manhattan, Univ San Fran, Bard, Lewis & Clark). We visited Bard, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke and Smith in October where Mt. Holyoke came out ahead at that time. Decisions…decisions…any opinions comparing Hampshire/Smith/Mt. Holyoke greatly appreciated. Social Justice and Theater interests.
@xiggi, what is the best source for number of kids admitted off of waitlists, once fall semester starts? Would best bet be to google specific college names?
@GnocchiB Look up the Common Data Sets for the last few years for the school/schools you’re interested in. The CDS lists how many students were admitted, how many on the wait list, and how many admitted from the wait list. Google “cds schoolname”
I PMd you…
As of March 28, 2015, the University of Notre Dame has admitted 3,577 students out of a total pool of 18,156 applicants. These admitted students attend 2,036 high schools across the globe. In addition, another 800 are expected to remain active on the waitlist. The University expects to enroll a first-year class of 2,010 students.…
The WL admit numbers are hard to find. The usual sources remain the blogs and posts by the school, the student newspapers, and after a few months, the CDS when they are released.
I still believe there ought to be some legislation that forces all the schools that receive federal aid to release their basic admission rates within one week of the close of the decision. All it takes is on small update on their webpage. Obviously, the WL numbers would not have to be released until … class starts!
Many of these common data sets for wait lists give meager information. It is not satisfactory at all. Some don’t even ffill most of the rows and columns… leaving us to guess. I know I am ranting but what are kids to do?
@limner, I was under the impression that the CDS data would be a year old - I will take a closer look. Thanks.
@GnocchiB It is over a year old, and won’t help you on the specific question of call semester admits. The most the CDS can give you is a pattern of wait list admits for that school. Data from the last 3-5 years will show what they’ve done in the past so you can make an educated guess about what may happen for this year’s wait listers. You can find out how many but not when they were admitted. Sorry.
Rice University acceptance letters have been distributed and the campus is gearing up for the roughly 2,600 students invited for Owl Days. For the Class of 2019, there were 17,900 applications, and Rice admitted around 14.7 percent, according to Chris Munoz, vice president for enrollment.
Bates College
5636 applications (up 12% from last year)
21.4% overall acceptance rate
17.8 RD acceptance rate
http://www.bates.edu/news/2015/04/03/students-admitted-to-the-class-of-2019-are-the-academically-strongest-most-diverse-in-bates-history-3/
Here’s a running list of Class of 2019 admission rates for most of the top schools:
https://college-kickstart.com/blog/item/class-of-2019-admission-results
I have to wonder how many applicants to the Ivies and elite schools have no expectation to actually get in - they just apply so that they can say they applied to those schools, and just in case lightning strikes and they are admitted anyway. My daughter applied to at least two schools for this reason. Just to be able to say she tried.
@LadyArwyn , I think ivy applicant pool is mostly self selecting… While there are always some who would apply on a lark, many I think choose based on their grades, test scores and ECs who think they are competitive - not necessarily compelling… I read about these 2 words somewhere in CC.
When I did admissions for a graduate program at Harvard we would sometimes get applications from international students who were obviously unsuited to the program. They would often write some version of, “I have heard Harvard is the best school so I want to attend your fine institution.” We would look at the application and realize they didn’t speak English, or worked in a field of study in which we had no current faculty, or were 50 and already had a PhD in the discipline. I always felt bad about counting these as applications because it was clear to everyone that these students were applying to HARVARD, not the actual program at Harvard. I wonder if the same dynamic is at play in undergraduate admissions at the HYPSYM schools-students who want to go to “the best” but don’t really have a good idea of which schools are best in their fields or what the schools expect of applicants.
Sometimes you see this in the “chance me” forum. Students ask what it takes to get into “an Ivy,” as if the Ivy League schools were interchangeable.