Thomas Aquinas College reports 140 enrolled out of 262 applied, for 53.4 percent. That’s even higher than BYU.
I think this is where you will see the winners of this contest. The admission rate at TAC is high, around 63%. But the application process is a slog, of sorts. You have to write a lot of really specific essays that will not work anywhere else. So only people who really want to go there apply. No majors, rigorous great books approach to liberal arts. But it’s kind of like the “Harvard” of those kinds of schools on the Catholic side.
Just to clarify, what you guys are talking about should not be referred to as “yield rate”. Yield has a specific definition, it’s the % of admits who enroll. This question, is asking the % of total applicants that enroll. We should use a different term- maybe applicant enrollment % or AE%? In any event, the highest school I could find in my limited searching was Kansas State University. 9703 applications/2908 enrolled would equal AE% of 30%.