<p>What would happen if a college had a much higher yield than they expected one year? Like, much higher -- there isn't enough room to accommodate the influx, etc. Are there any real-life examples of this happening?</p>
<p>Yep! Last year, Stanford couldn’t accept a single student from the waitlist, because they had accepted too many students already. Since they guarantee four-year housing, that means they won’t be able to take in as many kids for the following few years either. :[</p>
<p>wait if they accepted too many ppl, how did they provide enough housing?
…& how many ppl did they over-accept by?</p>
<p>Oh man, that must have sucked. Did they tell the waitlisted immediately through e-mail/snail mail about the development? Or did they wait until June/July and then go, “Oh yeah! Sorry, can’t accept any of you.”</p>
<p>That seemed to happen at one of the UCs (Irvine maybe?) if I remember reading correctly, which meant A LOT less acceptances this year. It’s called a bubble year, and the next year accomodates by forming a smaller freshman class I believe.</p>
<p>I’ve heard colleges try to compensate by getting less kids the next year (UChicago)</p>
<p>I’m not too sure on how they told them, but probably the second, they just weren’t expecting it.</p>
<p>aznfishy, it seems they had enough for that year, just not any more. Based on the statistics from this page:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/34836-annual-admissions-statistics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/34836-annual-admissions-statistics.html</a>
(Stanford Admissions Statistics)</p>
<p>1722 enrolled for the Class of 2011.</p>
<p>1648 enrolled for the Class of 2010.</p>
<p>1633 enrolled for the Class of 2009.</p>
<p>1648 enrolled for the Class of 2008.</p>
<p>So I don’t know exactly how much room they have, or how many usually attend, but 70 more arrived at Stanford this year than the last three years.</p>
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<p>There are leftover beds and such. They do have room, but they’re really pushing it by going over what they expect.</p>
<p>Stanford accepts ~2450 with an expected 66% yield, so about a ~1650 class. Last year, their yield went up from 67% to 70-71% in one year, and they had 1,721 new freshmen. Thus, no one from the waitlist was admitted. (In the past, 50+ are admitted–sometimes as high as 100–but in more recent times, <15 were admitted, and last year none at all.)</p>
<p>one year USC rented out a floor of an adjacent hotel for housing because of over admittance</p>
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<p>That must’ve cost money, but depending on the hotel, think of the luxury.</p>
<p>yeah, they said the students could order room service (they had to pay for it but still awesome) but did get free maid service from hotel</p>
<p>This happened at at New England LAC. They temporarily leased a convent adjacent to campus. You had to take a vow of chastity to live there, though ;)</p>
<p>Ahahahahahaha XD Dude, that year must’ve been the year for on-time housing applications, if only for all the kids who dreaded that vow.</p>