<p>How many APPLICANTS were there for the BME program from the class of 2010?</p>
<p>Class of 2010 BME data:</p>
<p>Total Applicants who selected BME as first major = 1926
Of the 1926, # of students admitted to JHU = 777
Of the 777, # of students admitted to JHU and BME = 435</p>
<p>Of the 777, # of deposited students to JHU = 295
Of the 295, # of deposited students to JHU and BME = 135</p>
<p>*Yes, we over-enrolled the BME program by a lot -- the cap usually ranges between 100 - 115.</p>
<p>Wow, that's still more than I expected...
Maybe I do have a chance...</p>
<p>Though a very, very slight chance.</p>
<p>There's a 40% acceptance rate if you apply to BME (regardless of getting into BME or not)? :eek:
I guess even though the rate is slightly higher than the college, the applicant pool is stronger...?</p>
<p>And it's a 22% acceptance rate into the program itself... dang.</p>
<p>I am confused. So only 135 were BME? Or is it 435. What is deposited mean. thanks though for the info!</p>
<p>Gyros, JHU accepted 435 total applicants to the BME major. 135 people accepted the offer of admission (they made the deposit means they accepted the offer and paid the initial fee or whatever)</p>
<p>I just realized that the percentage of people accepted into BME is higher than the percentage accepted into Harvard, Princeton, & Yale. Impressive.</p>
<p>One caveat...</p>
<p>...don't assume much about these numbers. The BME numbers have shifted greatly year-to-year so it is not really easy to make deductions by figuring out acceptance and yield rates. </p>
<p>Plus, since we over-enrolled the BME program for two straight years, the numbers will once again vary greatly from the previous year.</p>
<p>So what if all 435 decided to matriculate to hopkins? Could you do it?</p>
<p>Doesn't work that way. That's why you always see colleges making all these maneuvers and calculations to get their "yield" right.</p>
<p>I mean so they can reject you even after being accepted? or they just force you not to enter bme? I don't get what you mean though.</p>
<p>None of the top universities have a 100% yield (or anywhere close) - most people who get into these schools get into other schools of the same caliber and have to decide where they're going to go. So even if Hopkins admits 435 applicants to the BME major, they only expect about 110 to enroll. Just like how the University admits 3000+ students each year to get a class of 1000. When the "yield" predictions are wrong, you end up with over-enrollment.</p>
<p>Very well explained tanman - thanks.</p>
<p>We put a lot of time and effort and energy into YIELD PROJECTIONS and in most cases we come quite close to our projections. When we over-enroll as we have done with BME (and the overall class) for the past two years, we adjust our yield projections with the new data and one result is lower acceptance rates. </p>
<p>It is a puzzle and we are lucky to have some very intelligent faculty in our Applied Math and Statistics department who help us out.</p>
<p>Haha I like the collaboration there~</p>
<p>Thanks a lot.</p>