<p>Per the Tulane admissions blog, they received 44,000 applications this year, a 10% increase! IIRC, thats 10,000 more than they received for my (soph) s's class. Quite a jump in 3 years! I believe they got 34,000 for the class of 2012, 40,000 for the class of 2013 and now 44,000 for the class of 2014. Yikes!</p>
<p>Yowzah!!!</p>
<p>That will mean an acceptance rate of about 24%. Not band considering how low Tulane’s yield has historically been. The Princeton Review reports the yield to be about 14%. I’m a little surprised by that, but it looks like the high application rate makes it workable.</p>
<p>idad - I know what you mean. I have always been amazed at how these guys manage to come up with a class in the range of 1500-1600, which I think is the target, not knowing who will accept offers of admission. I know they have history and fancy analytical tools to help know what is likely, but still. Can you imagine the chaos if suddenly the yield went up to, say 20%? That would be about 2,000 incoming freshmen. I am not sure what they would do then.</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered about that too…
It would be interesting (not that I’m advocating this, any admissions people who might be reading this, but just interesting purely from a standpoint of academic curiosity) to try to convince historically large numbers of people to attend a specific school, and see what happens. In fairness, they couldn’t “retract” offers of admission just because their numbers were wrong, could they?</p>
<p>It happens, even with the greatest of statistical mumbo jumbo. For my s’s class they were anticipating only about 1400 or so enrolled (it was 3 yrs after Katrina and thery were still recovering) but got 1600 enrolled (with about 50 dropping during the “summer melt”). They needed to adjust class sizes, faculty, schedules, etc but managed to handle the dorm space. Then the retention rate was better with this academically stronger class, so again some juggling went on.</p>
<p>At our flagship U they had about 800 more accept in the freshman class than they had anticipated a few yrs back. Had to truple up indorm doubles, and I believe for a while they had to provide off campus housing in a hotel or something. It was a challenge for them, and really p.o’d the next yrs appplicants, ans there was less space and they also under accepted to avoid that again. Tough to calculate!!</p>
<p>Indeed. I was in a triple (Phelps) for a couple of weeks my first days at Tulane. But there were fewer caves back then, also. Then they knew who the “no-shows” were (it happens, hard as it is for me to imagine), and got me into a regular double in Monroe.</p>
<p>Just a guess, flying phoenix, but I would imagine if they started seeing that the enrollment got much larger than they could handle, they might start sending out a letter saying something like “due to an unusually high matriculation rate, we will be tripling students in rooms until…” whatever. That might get some people to change their minds, if they did it early enough. I really don’t know. I am tempted to say it is a problem they would like to have, but I am not so sure that is true either. I do know it beats the other problem of only getting 1300 or something like that. That would be tough also. What a game.</p>
<p>Maybe your friend Jeff can shed some light on this, jym.</p>
<p>He used to post here. Maybe someone can pm him?</p>
<p>If someone doesn’t enroll until May 1, and then got a theoretical letter like that, would they be ABLE to decide to enroll elsewhere? It’s my understanding that that date is the deadline, and that you can’t change your mind and jump on the bandwagon after that point.</p>
<p>All schools lose poeple during the summer to a combination of factors-- getting into other schools from waitlists, not being able to afford topay the tuition, deciding to take a year off, etc. Various reasons…</p>
<p>What jym said, but also what I was actually thinking was they would probably start seeing in late March or early April if things were snowballing to a high number. Then they could get a letter out quickly and students would have time to change their minds before May 1. But I was just hypothesizing, thinking out loud, chalkboarding, whatever you want to call it. In reality I have no idea what they would do, but I bet they have a plan in the “drawer” already just in case it does happen.</p>
<p>Flying phoenix, I see you are in State College. Are your parents associated with the university?</p>
<p>My stepfather of a year works in a research capacity for Penn State, yes.</p>
<p>the small chance, i felt i had, in getting accepted has diminished even more now.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, fallen, did you have any specific impetus for asking me about my hypothetical affiliation with PSU?</p>
<p>flying - No reason other than seeing you lived in State College. That, and just being nosy. I just assumed you wanted to go to school away from home, but having a parent that works at a school does add another dimension since it is often free. Anyway, hope you don’t mind that I asked.</p>
<p>Oh, not at all! I’m just a curious person as well, and often people ask that because they know someone similarly affiliated. And you were spot on on the rest of that…it was such a relief when I got a full-tuition offer from Pitt, so I had an option that was a financial safety as a back-up from PSU</p>