Apologies if this question is posted in the wrong place…
Is the “acceptance rate” calculated from a numerator of acceptances offered that might change throughout the time between first offers sent and matriculation?
I ask because Davis just sent around a letter claiming under 8% acceptance - that’s like Univ of Chicago’s numbers?
Does it represent a departure from years past or is that proportion likely to increase?
If so, then an interesting metric would be the variability in acceptance rate over the course of March-September. That is, what’s the acceptance rate of acceptances. I know folks do think about that, obviously. Where/how is that metric captured?
Good question about exact wording, hold on… (this was from kid’s friend; kid was accepted and is, I presume, interested in the “meaning” of the acceptance):
“…you were part of a [ ] group of close to 78,000 applicants, from which Davis could enroll a freshman class of nearly 5,900…”
Hmmm… so that’s not even saying they sent out 5900 applications. If they sustain a, say, 50% acceptance rate, for all we know they already sent out 12K acceptances.
So apparently they’ve had a 40% rate, +/-, in the past. I thought this represented a dramatic decrease but maybe it doesn’t at that. Depends on a number they haven’t released (afaik), proportion of acceptance.
That means that the freshman class size is 5900. Manu if not most accepted students will go elsewhere. If Davis has a 50% yield rate then hey would accept a total of 11,800 students.
@madgemini4 that actually happened to UCI just last year. they ended up rescinding 500 offers of admission just two months before the start of the fall term. it was shocking. usually, things like that seldom happen. more often than not, colleges, if they do overenroll, overenroll by just a little bit, so some students end up having to share a room with two other people instead of just one other person (aka three students in a room vs. two students in a room).
Overenrollment happened a few years ago at UMich too. Usually that is an outcome of unexpected yield rate increase. To avoid that, schools would admit a little bit less and leave some room for wait list. Nevertheless, that only happens to some schools.
Many colleges’ conditions of admission are vaguely stated regarding expectations of 12th grade academic performance, usually leading to a lot of worries among 12th grade students about their GPA dropping. It is possible that an overenrolled college may apply higher GPA standards to avoid rescission than if it were not overenrolled.
Yes, the stringency of rescind decision may help to alleviate over-enrollment. But the number of potentially rescinded students is usually within the margin and not too helpful particularly if they are not in specific program(s). Indeed, there were still WL admission in the year with over enrollment (by ~300) at UMich 4 years ago according to their CDS. There may be still specific quota to fill in certain school(s) within the university even the overall enrollment has exceeded the limit.
