I have seen information generally provided for lots of schools identifying their overall yield. For state schools you can sometimes find information about instate applicant yield as compared to out of state applicant yield. Has anyone, however, come across information about yield rates in the different rounds of admissions, i.e, early action pool vs regular admissions pool and deferred student pool? I suspect early action admissions may have a lower yield, but maybe it’s not really a significant difference. For some schools, however, it might explain why they defer so many kids to the regular decision pool. Thanks
Also, why would a college’s yield factor into whether one applies ED or RD?
Title of thread is wrong it should have been early action. Not sure I can change the title. My question in my post referenced early action. Early decision will have a very high yield. Early action may be a different situation. Since the pool is typically very strong yield could be lower than the regular decision pool.
If yield is the essentially the same, then based on number of students admitted in an early action round, when you reach the regular decision rounds there may be very few seats left to fill and they will need to be allocated among the many kids that are deferred from early action plus the regular applicant pool.
I think, more important than yield is what portion of the freshman class is filled via the early round. The number of admitted sent out already take into account the expected yield.
Some colleges fill half their class through EA/ED but a few fill over 90%!
This is what affects admission chances in the RD round.
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How EA yield compare to ED yield depends on the type of EA. The more restrictive it is (e.g. SCEA), the higher the yield. For schools with unrestricted EA, their EA yield may or may not be higher than RD yield.
Schools with unrestricted EA may not be as interested in filling their seats with EA admits. For those with low EA yield, they can’t even count on filling those seats.
As already stated, the specifics vary greatly from school to school - assuming they even offer ED & EA. If you have a particular list of schools in mind for your student, it might be more helpful to talk about those specifically, or whatever the specific concern is?
I was trying to rationally understand why a school, take UVA for example, would defer approximately 7,000 kids to the regular decision pool, which has approximately 16,000 applicants, when their numbers suggest (based on current offers and general yield information) that they have a few hundred seats left to fill after the Early action admissions round. I think the bottom line is that they do it because they can. No skin off their nose.
My assumption would be, that in their experience they’re likely to see a sufficient number of “similar caliber” regular applications that they prefer to weigh those few hundred against - especially since EA is a one-side commitment.
If they admit those few hundred, they’ll give up the ability to admit hundreds of regular applicants that potentially could seem to be a better fit, once those come in.
It depends. The University of Maryland College Park for example, fills an incredible 95% of their freshman class via unrestricted EA.
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When does UMD notify EA apps? I view EA with a December notification date different than ones (many public flagships) that notify in Jan/Feb.
By late Jan (typically on the last Friday). This year it was on Jan 28th