ED Apps Up but RD apps down

Colleges and Universities A-Z Bucknell University
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<p>At Bucknell University, also in Pennsylvania, early applications rose by 10 percent over last year, but regular applications have been trailing behind. Kurt Thiede, Bucknell’s vice president for enrollment management and dean of admissions, expects to come in no more than 5 percent behind last year’s count.</p>

<p>“That’s optimistic,” he says. “I feel comfortable about where we are. I expect this to be the spring to end all springs.”</p>

<p>From: [Admissions</a> Officials Anticipate a Spring of Uncertainty - Chronicle.com](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=TyNJsbKn2ghq8sQbx4p5Syqqt3dk8jcS]Admissions”>http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=TyNJsbKn2ghq8sQbx4p5Syqqt3dk8jcS)</p>

<p>If I did my math correctly, that’s about 7700 applications this admissions cycle, down from 8024. Do you think the adcoms expect another year of high yield (40%) and maintain the acceptance of around 29%?</p>

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<p>down around 5% is actually pretty good for lacs in bucknells selectivity range. of top lacs on which i have found information, middlebury, hamilton, colby, kenyon, dickinson and gettysburg all look to be down at least 10%, with hamilton worst at -16%. so while -5% (if that is the final number) is not good, in this economic climate its not bad, either.</p>

<p>the big question at privates this spring will be yield. there is little doubt it will be down virtually across the board; the uncertain question is how much. thankfully, bucknell actually overenrolled somewhat significantly with its 29.8% acceptance rate last year as enrollment targets would have been hit with an acceptance rate closer to 28.4%. throw on top of that the schools ability to utilize the waitlist and i dont anticipate a significant change in the schools reported acceptance rate or yield. </p>

<p>for example, if bucknell accepted an additional 20 ed applicants (from nearly 60 additional applications) and intended to enroll 40 students from its waitlist, the schools enrollment target could be met with a decline in regular decision, non-waitlist yield from 29.6% last year to 25.7% this year with a CONSTANT number of overall admits, 2395. (yield would look the same on paper, acceptance rate would increase to 31%.)</p>

<p>the numbers at a school already enrolling 5% of its class from the waitlist will look much, much worse.</p>

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<p>Where are you getting the stats on all of these schools?</p>

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<p>i believe all of them can be found between the posted article and a parents forum thread on 2013 application numbers.</p>