Yield*acceptance rate?

College Search & Selection
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Just curious: Which universities have the highest yield*acceptance rate? Seems like it would indicate a “hidden gem” that is desirable but relatively unknown.

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I’m going off of the data posted by US News in January of 2014. I’ll post the top 20 here but they have a much longer list if you google the article

  1. Harvard University (80.2%)
  2. Brigham Young (80.1)
  3. Spalding University (77.2)
  4. University of Alaska- Fairbanks (76.4)
  5. Stanford University (72.8)
  6. MIT (70.1)
  7. Yale (66.4)
  8. Georgia Southern University (65.9)
  9. Yeshiva University (65.5)
  10. Princeton (64.8)
  11. University of Nevada- Las Vegas (64.2)
  12. University of Pennsylvania (62.5)
  13. Columbia University (59.9)
  14. North Carolina A&T State University (59.3)
  15. University of North Dakota (59.3)
  16. University of Nebraska- Lincoln (59.1)
  17. Brown University (55.8)
  18. University of New Orleans (55.5)
  19. University of Memphis (53)
  20. North Dakota State University (52.5)

I would guess this is a mix of prestige (explains why the Ivies/Stanford/MIT are so high up there), colleges that cater to very specific groups of people (Brigham Young, Yeshiva) and colleges in obscure places where kids may not feel the pressure to leave or have the option/finances to leave (University of Alaska, University of North Dakota). Just my guess.

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^^ That’s just yield % though. OP was asking about [acceptance %] times [yield]. In Harvard’s case, for example, that would be [.058] * [.802] = .047. It’d be interesting to see which schools have an a*y closest to 1.

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Yeah Harvard is pretty low actually, as you’d imagine

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UA-Fairbanks has an a*y of .8, so it’s probably among the top.

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Found the acceptance rate for UAF to be about 75-80%, but couldn’t find a yield rate. For a*y to equal .8, yield rate would have to be about 100%. Closest I could find was from a 2013 CDS where 370 enrolled/554 admitted (men) and 360 enrolled/609 admitted (women), for very roughly, maybe a 60% yield, 75% when you include part-time? What figures did you use?

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@irlandaise‌ The yield for Alaska Fairbanks is in the list I posted above… It’s 76.8%. And sorry I misinterpreted what you were asking for, OP! Hope the stats helped anyway.

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Haha thanks! Guess I missed it. I guess that’d make a*y about .6ish, which is really high for such an unknown school (to me, at least).

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Yield is also helped immensely by ED

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Or that it attracts a specific type of student.

It is also possible that this product is high for open admission community colleges. Acceptance rate is 100%, and the students probably do not bother to apply if they do not intend to enroll, so yield may be high.

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^I was thinking that too. There’d probably need to be another factor included to mathematically find a ‘hidden gem’, if that’s the goal.

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I’m working on making a list rn --so far around 40 schools but it’s growing. I’m thinking about making another column factoring in % returning soph year to help with the problem @irlandaise‌ mentioned

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Enrolled/Admitted * Admitted/Applied = ???

What does that simplify to?

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yeah I meant .64 for UCF sorry.
Xiggi, good point, though I’m not sure that that’s much easier to find than yield*acceptance rate (which gives more of an idea of the motivation behind the calculation)

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The common data set or http://www.collegedata.com entry for the school will show you the number enrolled and number applied, so you do not need number admitted.