From CC ND forum postings: In recent years, ND enrolled freshman classes of right around 2,050 students. Last year’s total yield for the entire class was 55.4%, so ND accepted a total of 3,702 students to fill its class of 2,051 enrollees.
In this year’s REA cycle, ND received 6,598 REA apps, and accepted 1,636 of them (24.8%). If the yield rate on REA admits is similar to last year’s 64% REA yield, ND would expect to fill 1,047 of its 2,050 person class with just the REA students accepted back in December.
If the total yield for the incoming class is again 55.4% this year, this would suggest that ND needs to accept a total of 3,700 students. 3,700 / 20,000 applications = 18.5% acceptance rate. Since ND accepted 1,636 in REA, that leaves 2,064 slots open in the RD round in order to get to 3,700 total acceptances.
Assuming ND received 20,000 total applications this year, a somewhat conservative assumption, of which 6,598 were REA, then the number of RD applications received would be 13,402. To that total, you would add in the deferrals from the REA cycle, so let’s say approx. 1,000 deferrals as during previous years. In the Regular Decision pool, that would mean 14,402 applications competing for the remaining 2,064 slots, for an estimated RD acceptance rate of 14.3%.