<p>So, I was accepted at Northeastern and through this e-mail they sent me, they told me that they accepted 2,800 students out of 38,000 applications! Northeastern, according to US News stats of last year, accepted 35% in 2008. Is this sudden jump possible? This is seriously incredible!</p>
<p>Northeastern enrols 2800 freshman out of 38,000 applications. The yield rate (percent of those accepted who actually enrol) is around 20 to 25%. This yield rate is comparable with BU and BC. </p>
<p>They will likely accept about 30% of applicants, knowing that many accepted students will end up going elsewhere for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>No- I am not talking about how many will attend. They mentioned in the e-mail that they finished deciding and the aforementioned are the stats- therefore, a 7% acceptance rate this year.</p>
<p>They definitely accepted way more than 2,800. They freshman class profile from Fall 2008 said there were 2,923 freshmen who attended. We obviously don’t know how many will attend Northeastern this upcoming fall yet, but the number should be around 2,800.</p>
<p>Tomsr is right.</p>
<p>there are 2800 spots in a class. They accept far, far more than 2800 students… like Tomsr said, about 30% (30% of 38000 is about 11000). Then, of these 11,000, about 2800 attend.</p>
<p>You are misreading it or they said it very badly, but TomSr is right. Many years not even Harvard has 7%. But you aren’t thinking at all if you think they really only offered admission to 2,800 students out of 38,000 applicants. Last year they enrolled 2,830 in their freshman class. You think their yield is 100%?</p>
<p>Acceptance rate =/= ( attending / applicants )</p>
<p>Acceptance rate == ( acceptances / applicants )</p>
<p>wow, posting jinx.</p>
<p>Don’t believe that for a second. There same sort of garbled acceptance letter mislead a lot of students into thinking Geneseo was as selective as Princeton last year. I will bet you a fleet of BMW Z4s that Northeastern accepted more than 2,800 applicants this year. Feel free to PM me to collect if I am proved wrong.</p>
<p>" We have now completed our decisions for the Fall class and we ended up with almost 38,000 applications for only 2,800 available spots! You should be very proud of your success."</p>
<p>They’re trying to look more selective than they are.</p>
<p>They accepted probably 10,000+ applicants.</p>
<p>“…we ended up with almost 38,000 applications for only 2,800 available spots! You should be very proud of your success.” </p>
<p>They are telling the truth. NU does not say the only ADMITTED 2800 students. If you choose to read more into this than is there, then you are mistaken.</p>
<p>A 30% acceptance rate is a pretty low acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Wow, ivyambition. What was your CR score on the SAT, 400? The letter is extemely clear. They have 2,800 available spots. 38,000 people applied for those spots. Anyone that has spent more than 5 minutes looking into applying for college knows that colleges accept more people than they have spots, since at most schools more than half the students decide to go elsewhere. I would stop posting on this thread if I were you, it is so embarrassing.</p>
<p>BTW HYPhoper, I know you had a “typo” in your post #7 (you had two definitions for acceptance rate), but it still would have been wrong.</p>
<p>Acceptance rate = (Offers of admission/applicants)</p>
<p>Yield rate = (Matriculants/Offers of admission)</p>
<p>(Class Size / Yield Rate) / # of applicants = acceptance rate</p>
<p>(2800/0.232)/38000 ≈ 32% acceptance rate</p>
<p>Wow guys, chill out. I’m pretty sure they get the point. It’s not that big of a deal.</p>
<p>Yes, please calm down. It really doesn’t matter that much.</p>
<p>1+1=3? lol
i got into northeastern :] haha…yea…not 7% dood</p>
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It isn’t, but it is annoying as hell when after the obvious truth is clearly pointed out, the OP continues to try and make the same ridiculous point. Everyone can be wrong, although 5 seconds of critical thinking should have made it obvious that a 7% acceptance rate made no sense. But once the error is pointed out, admit the error and move on.</p>
<p>Free electronic apps, particularly if no additional essays are required, is leading to sky high application numbers for schools – and much improved “selectivity.” For most of these schools though, their yield will go down, and therein lies the truth of the gaming.</p>
<p>I know my daughter took advantage of this to apply to 9 schools. She is a very good, but not superstar student, and was accepted to all schools. Her conduct and results, if applied across the board, will lead to an average yield of 11% in the schools she looked into.</p>
<p>Absolutely correct Eric. What it really means is that A) USNWR needs to stop using any admission stats as part of its calculations (although I would be happier if they stopped the bogus ranking farce altogether) and B) we as “consumers” need to reorient our thinking along these lines as well. I suppose someday if most schools are all doing pretty much the same thing, the stats could be meaningfully compared again, at least for as much meaning as anyone could ever tease out of them.</p>