National Universities Where the Most Accepted Students Enroll

College Search & Selection
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Prestigious private colleges, religious universities and some public schools had the highest yields, according to U.S. News data.

Source: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2015/01/21/national-universities-where-the-most-accepted-students-enroll

Enjoy~ :slight_smile:

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Hmm BYU lost to Harvard this year. Out of curiosity, where do the Mormons who don’t end up going to BYU attend? Community college?

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Utah has 4 decent sized (25K to 32K undergraduates) public universities: University of Utah(Salt Lake City),Utah State University (Logan), Utah Valley University (Orem), and Weber State University (Ogden). Outside of Salt Lake City (which has a large CC), I don’t think Utah has much of a community college system.

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The bottom 10 on the list. Any surprises?

Marquette University 14.8%
University of Vermont 14.4%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark 13.8%
University of Denver 13.4%
University of San Francisco 12.6%
Fordham University (NY) 11.5%
St. John’s University (NY) 10.4%
Hofstra University (NY) 9.9%
University of the Pacific (CA) 9.3%
Drexel University (PA) 8.5%

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Well Vermont is the only state flagship on the list, although I think students opt not to attend due to the high cost IS and OOS.

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Drexel is a major surprise.

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Besides being helped by prestige, the numbers are greatly impacted by:
a. ED - these produce a yield of 100%
b. Affiliations:

  • one of these being the combined geographic/economic variety. Whereby the state flagship (e.g. North Dakota, Nebraska) are in large area states, which makes it further to travel out of state and are of somewhat lower wealth, such that fewer residents can afford to pay out of state tuition.
  • religious affiliations (BYU, Yeshiva)

or perhaps distain: Rutgers

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The bottom schools on Gator’s list have EA not ED. Many strong students use one of the solid but not super-selective EA schools as “safety” schools as they are notified before the end of December of admission and there is no commitment to attend. Schools with ED have a 100% (or very close to it) enrollment rate for what can be up to half (at some schools) of their student body.

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Yield rates are pretty meaningless in my opinion. Still a school like Michigan, which has a 40% yield, is quite impressive when you consider that about 40% of its students are full pay out of state.

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BYU Idaho and BYU Hawaii.