<p>Yield only matters to those who have been waitlisted. If one were waitlisted at harvard, and this year they had an unexpected yield of only 50%, then that would mean they would take a LOT of people of their waitlist, which is good news.</p>
<p>yeah we care if we were waitlisted.</p>
<p>Why care about yield? No reason, really. After all, USNW dropped it as a stat fot their famous rankings years ago. But to some it’s of interest as the figure that matters most to colleges: not only for questions like do we go into the waitlist? did we overfill our dorms? but also: how did we do against our peers, the ones competing for pretty much the same students? Remember that for all the hype abot how hard it is to get in to so many schools, only a handful have a yield over 50%</p>
<p>Yield is an immensely important figure for most colleges – especially now – for economic reasons. How they stack up against the next college is not important to them except as an indirect indicator.</p>
<p>Cardinal Fang, I was at a Kalamazoo visit day on Saturday and the admissions counselor said that there were about 2100 students that applied for admission and that about 70% were accepted. Of these ~1470 students that were accepted, she said that about 395 accepted offers of admission, which would make for a yield rate of about 27%. This is a little lower than years before, which according to the admissions website had been about 31-32%.
[Admission</a>. Kalamazoo College](<a href=“Admission – | Kalamazoo College”>http://www.kzoo.edu/admission/classprofile.php)</p>
<p>Percentages aside, that’s a very healthy freshman class for Kalamazoo. The school’s total enrollment last year was about 1400, I think, so if they have anything approaching 395 incoming freshmen, that’s terrific. The 70% acceptance rate is pretty similar to past years, I think. That seems high but Kalamazoo is a fairly unique LAC that has a very self-selected group of applicants, and their academic profile is quite strong notwithstanding the acceptance rate.</p>
<p>They said at the admissions presentation that they were trying to increase overall enrollment by a few hundred over the next few years, which a class of 390 something would definitely accomplish.</p>