“In the past year, more than 22,000 high school students have submitted an application to join the Notre Dame class of 2023. At the end of a long process of discernment by the Office of Admissions, 3,515 of those students were admitted to the University. Of that group, about 2,055 accepted Notre Dame’s offer of admission and are expected to arrive on campus this weekend as the class of 2023.
Don Bishop, the University’s associate vice president for undergraduate enrollment, said the class of 2023’s yield rate — the number of admitted students who decided to come to Notre Dame — of 58.4% is a full percentage point higher than last year. This increased yield rate comes in spite of the fact that 90 fewer students were admitted this year as compared to last year. “We were able to admit fewer students and get our class goal,” Bishop said.
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“The admit rate was 15.8%. That’s the lowest admit rate we’ve ever had. I don’t want us to celebrate that. We are not out there trying to accumulate applicants that don’t have much of an opportunity in the pool,” he said. “… We always are trying to improve the applicant pool in the quality of students and that quality definition extends beyond test scores and high school grades.”
https://ndsmcobserver.com/2019/08/class-of-2023-increases-retention/