<p>Some schools are reporting they are receiving more applications this year than years previously. (something about the econ ect)</p>
<p>If these schools usually accept a certain percent of an applicant pool does this play in your favor? </p>
<p>(If you have a decent application)?</p>
<p>For example. School accepts 20% of applicants.</p>
<p>2008 year 20,000 apply. 2009 22,000 appply.</p>
<p>Does that means your chances have increased by that 400 people?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>In my opinion, I think the acceptance rate would go down… wouldn’t it? It seems to make sense.
This happened with ALL of the schools I applied to this year. A bit disheartening :(</p>
<p>hahh i wish…</p>
<p>no they don’t accept by percentages… acceptance rates will go down but they will probably accept a little bit more students. this is because seniors this year applied to more schools in general so their yield might be lower because they are competing with more schools .</p>
<p>i’m confused. isn’t it the opposite? when apps number go up, that’s bad. that means there is more competition for a few select spots. which means admit rates go down. which means you have to try even harder to get into whatever school you want to go to. a lot harder.</p>
<p>:( haha this thread made me depressed. Yeah, they won’t accept by percentages. That would mean they would be accepting more kids than their school has spots for. For example, the University of Chicago’s application rate went up by 42% this year, so they’re going to accept a much lower percentage than in previous years.</p>
<p>I thought a majority of the increase was from the lack of jobs this year, forcing those with marginal grades to also apply instead of going into the work force.</p>
<p>By this logic, I thought that your chances would improve if its not a highly selective school would select your application. </p>
<p>IE some guy with a 2.0 GPA and 1000 SAT scores applies to MIT… (Maybe 100 of these guys)</p>
<p>Would improve that one guy with decent scores and a round GPA? </p>
<p>Schools don’t honestly just kill their admission rate from 30%? to 25%?</p>
<p>Maybe for private but for states ect?</p>
<p>^Why would state schools still accept the same percentages? Some schools are upping class sizes, but otherwise, the class sizes at universities will remain stagnant while the number of applicants increases dramatically. The only thing that could possibly happen is a lower acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Of course, they may end up accepting more from the waitlist when their yield suffers now that kids apply to 20+ schools.</p>
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Schools do not choose an admission rate. They admit a total based on their projected yield. “Yield” is the percent of admitted students who have historically decided to matriculate (matriculate = attend that particular school).</p>
<p>Take, for example, a school that has 2,000 spots for incoming freshmen. If their yield over the last few years has been about 30%, they know they can admit about 6,667 applicants in order to have about 2,000 choose to attend. (6,667 X 30%)</p>
<p>If their application numbers surged significantly, they might project that their yield will increase a bit. After research and discussion, they may project that their yield will be 30.5% in a particular year. Now they can admit only about 6,557 applicants to try to get the target 2,000 matriculants. (6557 X 30.5%)</p>
<p>So if they had 20,000 applicants the previous year and admitted 6,667, their acceptance rate was about 33%. With a hypothetical 10% surge in applications in a subsequent year to 22,000 and a projection of a 30.5% yield allowing them to admit 6,557, the acceptance rate would be 29.8%.</p>
<p>Both state and private schools use yield projections to decide how many applicants to admit. As another poster points out above, they have only a certain number of spots for incoming freshman.</p>
<p>(Note - the percent changes in my exapmlple are huge compared to the typical changes in a given year to help clarify the drop in acceptance rates due to increased applications.)</p>
<p>OP - Please don’t tell me that you got over a 700 on your SAT I Math section because otherwise it officially is indicative of nothing.</p>
<p>LOL: Increased applications does not equate to increased physical space at the colleges!</p>
<p>Increased apps means admit rate decreases. Your chances are lessened.</p>
<p>Increased apps are due to the ease of the Common apps – not kids who are wondering if they should apply to Princeton or go find a job due to the recession. Think about it.</p>
<p>That means you have less of a chance…:(</p>
<p>^ Doesn’t one, however, also have to take into account yield, which will probably go down as acceptance rates go down as well? It seems that gaining applicants because of the common app’s ease is somewhat of a double-edged sword.</p>
<p>monstor: you’re correct about that. As schools have seen more applicants, except for the tippy top few, (HYPS), it’s been very difficult to estimate the yield. Therefore schools are using the wait lists more.</p>