Over 1200 acceptance letters sent out.
I am hoping that includes ED…I am confused though and hope someone can explain some things to me. Class size is suppose to be 550, correct. How can they send out that many acceptances? Does this mean that if you have been accepted there is still a chance that you do not get in? How do they do it? Is it a first come first serve? There is about 700 more letters sent out that can be accepted.
Very confused and the numbers don’s make sense to me.
Not everyone who’s accepted will attend. Colleges are usually pretty good at predicting yield. Some students choose schools they like better, others won’t be able to afford it. It’s not a first come, first served situation. If you get an acceptance and you can afford your net cost, you can attend.
Not everyone who is given an offer of admission will accept it. Schools have an idea based on prior history what their yield will be. Students can have acceptances from multiple schools, and can only attend one. If you are given an offer of admission you have a spot if you accept it.
Most students apply to multiple schools. This means that students often get multiple offers of acceptance. But a student can only accept one offer, right? If a student gets acceptance letters from four different schools, three of them will get turned down.
Lat year, Williams sent out 1,252 letters of acceptance. Of those, 548 students accepted the offer (this represents a “yield” of 44%). The others decided to take an offer from Middlebury, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Yale, or some other school instead.
The college admissions game is very competitive. Most schools have yields below 50%, so they have to accept many more students than they actually have slots for.
@bresdo
Your daughter was accepted ED, right? That’s a binding decision. She had to accept the offer from Williams. However, thousands of students apply there during the regular decision round. Those who are accepted are not REQUIRED to go there. Perhaps they got accepted to five other colleges. More than 50% of students who are ACCEPTED to Williams in the regular decision round will NOT attend Williams.
I suppose it’s easy to think that because your daughter’s number-one choice was Williams that it was everyone else’s first choice too!