Exeter was 14% last year. So this year would be ~13%.
I see. I was going off of 10% I saw on a website, which could be a couple years old or just wrong.
NMH in their letter said that they had 1350 applications for about 195 spots, amounting to about a 14% acceptance rate. Different than what Google says though, at about 28%.
Thatâs not how you calculate acceptance rate.
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28% sounds correct taking yield into account.
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I took yield into account as NMH is a school of 645, while 195 ⢠4 = 780 students.
Based on your screen name, I really hope youâre not investing using those shoddy math skills. Student body size is not a factor in determining yield.
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You do not have enough information to calculate acceptance rate or yield. It doesnât matter how big the student body is.
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I am imagining that some of those students were admitted for 10th and 11th grade. I donât know if NMH takes 12th graders or does a PG year. But just because there are 645 students in a school, does not mean that there are 161 students per grade. And # of applicants as well as # admitted and yield rates likely differ per grade. They could be aiming for 100 (9th) + 60 (10th) + 30 (11th) + 5 (12th) = 195 seats.
Thus 195 seats doesnât mean that there are 4*195 (780) students at the school. With the type of distribution that I am describing, a school would only have around 640ish students (100 freshmen + 160 sophomores + 190 juniors + 195 seniors - 5 or so students who leave for various reasons over the summer or get off waitlists elsewhere). And we donât know how many students they needed to admit in each grade to get the distribution that they want. They likely have a different yield for each grade.
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Letâs take a guess with no basis for the sake of argument and say yield was 50%. 1350 applicants for 195 spots with 50% yield rounds out to about 28.8% acceptance. Obviously the yield guess isnât based on fact, but your idea of âyieldâ is incorrect.
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