The letter stated that 710 spots were available and 11,000 people applied. How does this change from years prior?
@kevintocollege someone wrote there are 710 places in the class. If true Skidmore would have to admit many more to yield 710 matriculating students. According to the common data set for last year 10,796 applied, 2907 people were accepted and 678 attended.
How can they admit more than 710? Don’t colleges protect their yield with waitlisted students?
No, schools always accept more kids than will put down a deposit because not everyone who is admitted will actually enroll and attend. If the school doesn’t predict their yield fairly accurately they then go to the WL to fill/complete the class. And sometimes more kids decide to attend than anticipated and no one comes off the WL. That’s why the number of kid accepted off the WL varies from year to year.
For class of 2022, Skidmore had 10,796 apps and admitted 2,907 students (26.9% acceptance rate). Only 678 of the 2,907 students enrolled, for a yield of 23.3% which is on the low side and means Skidmore is not the first choice of many accepted students and/or finances didn’t work out. Stats from CDS, section C https://www.skidmore.edu/ir/facts/common/CDS_2018-2019.pdf
Last year’s admit yield was 23%. Wonder how many total admits offered of the 11,000 applicants this year?
I believe enrollment yields are impacted more and more each year with kids applying to so many schools in the search for merit/best financials. First choice does not always = enrollment.
From the Skidmore website, regarding this years class of 2023…
Class of 2023 Profile
740 students (including 32 students in FYE London program)
11,100 applications
3,000+ admits
30% selectivity
47% enrolled through Early Decision
28% domestic students of color
11% international students
6% dual citizens
17% first-generation college students
49% receiving some form of financial aid
31 states and 32 foreign countries
50 languages spoken at home besides English
44% male/56% female
If you are accepted to 8 colleges, you can’t attend all of them. You will attend one and decline the offers at 7. Colleges know that not everyone accepted will attend. If Skidmore accepted only 710 students, probably only 200 of them would attend. That wouldn’t work out very well. They’d have to offer spots to at least 2,000 students on the wait list to yield the additional 510 students.
Yield Rate is useless to an applicant. You should focus on the Admission Rates for both Regular Decision and Early Decision. If you review Skidmore College’s Common Data Set 2018-2019 (a 35 page document with tons of data) which can be found on their website, last year Skidmore had a Regular Decision Admit Rate of 27%. The Early Decision Admit Rate was 63%. https://www.skidmore.edu/ir/facts/common/CDS_2018-2019.pdf