<p>I have a friend who was unfortunately rejected from Davis. What’s interesting is that he said that the rejection site gave a statistic, that this year there were 34,900 applicants competing for 4,800 seats. This makes absolutely no sense, because, with all due respect to Davis students and prospectives, that would give Davis a 13.8% acceptance rate, which lines it up with even Ivy League schools!! Given that Davis has had acceptance rates of 60-70% for the past few years, 13.8% wouldn’t make sense regardless of comparisons with the Ivy League. I think he’s lying to make himself feel better- can someone shed some light about this situation regarding the Davis acceptance rate for this year? Did Davis even list this information on the rejection site in the first place?</p>
<p>4,800 seats. That means they accepted 15-20,000. UC Davis isn't the top choice for a lot of people, so out of those accepted, only a certain number will actually attend.</p>
<p>yeah, they try to make it sound a lot better than it actually is for students that weren't accepted...</p>
<p>34,900 applied. _____ of those people were accepted. they hope to have around 4,800 actually enroll.</p>
<p>I hope I did this right.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=292907%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=292907</a></p>
<p>Now I don't feel as special for getting accepted :(</p>
<p>The rate that people actually go to UCD is pretty low. Even top UCs like LA and Berkeley only get around 42% yield, and even Harvard's yield is only 87.5% At least I can see the UCD people trying to comfort those who weren't admitted, not like that evil SLO online announcement.</p>
<p>Yup, even a revered school like MIT has a somewhat surprising yield, something like only half or two-thirds of the accepted end up actually going from what I recall. </p>
<p>I was damn shocked to see such stats because many people dream to get into such internationally revered schools.</p>
<p>These stats really shouldn't be so surprising. Even top-notch students will usually apply to several top-notch schools. If they get into more than one (which is likely), then they will have to reject all but one of them. The student who rejects MIT might be going to Cal Tech, Harvard, Stanford, or Princeton. It still shows up as a rejection for MIT. And there is always the issue of financial aid; some students will reject Harvard with no scholarship in favor of, say, Duke with a full ride.</p>
<p>The yield statistic has long been one of the most controversial measures used by US News & World Report. It is part of the reason that many of these schools started pushing the early decision nonsense, to make their yields higher. Others have reportedly rejected "overqualified" students on the theory that they probably wouldn't come anyway. I believe that over the years US News has lowered the weight that they give to this statistic in response to these problems.</p>
<p>What I don't get though is that I've gotten rejected from UC- SB, D, and SD so far with non-impacted majors, but accepted to CSU Long beach - 52% acceptance rate, AND in a highly impacted major. All I have to say is "huh?". I hate CA, lol.</p>
<p>CSU Long Beach is just a decent school at best. My homie Scott used to go there, and I've been on that campus many times.</p>
<p>UC's are generally much more difficult to get into.</p>
<p>nate</p>
<p>CSU aside from the Cal Poly SLO are not impacted: as long as you have the minimum requirements you are pretty much in.</p>
<p>"CSU aside from the Cal Poly SLO are not impacted: as long as you have the minimum requirements you are pretty much in."</p>
<p>Not quite. See <a href="http://www.calstate.edu/ar/impactioninfo.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.calstate.edu/ar/impactioninfo.shtml</a> for information on impacted schools and majors at Cal States. "Currently, Fullerton, Long Beach, Cal Poly Pomona, San Diego, and Sonoma are designated as impacted CSU campuses." There is also a link to a spreadsheet giving impacted majors at various CSU campuses.</p>
<p>That being said, it is generally easier to get into an impacted major at a Cal State (other than Cal Poly) than an unimpacted major at most UCs, though I'm sure there are exceptions to this.</p>
<p>barfdog what are your stats/resume</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing that up homerj. I am obviously not up to date on CSU impaction facts! I simply remembered back in high school my counselor gave a presentation and said only SLO requires additional info compared to applying for other CSUs, and made an erroneus assumption.</p>