Looking at yield at UVA, VT, UMD, G'town, Hopkins, W&M

[Anonymous]

VT 47,101 applied, 26,923 admitted, acceptance rate 57%, 7,196 enroll, yield of 27%
UVA 50,941 applied, 9,504 admitted, acceptance rate 19%, 4,030 enroll, yield of 42%
UMD 56,637 applied, 25,209 admitted, acceptance rate 45%, 5,783 enroll, yield of 23%
W&M 17,548 applied, 5,741 admitted, acceptance rate 33%,1,619 enroll, yield of 28%
Georgetown 26,638 applied, 3,257 admitted, acceptance rate 12%, 1,574 enroll, yield of 48%
Johns Hopkins 37,826 applied, 2,739 admitted, acceptance rate 7%, 1,405 enroll, yield of 51%

I'm surprised to see VT, UMD and W&M yields so low. It looks like a lot applicants use those schools as a safety.

[Anonymous]

Cool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT 47,101 applied, 26,923 admitted, acceptance rate 57%, 7,196 enroll, yield of 27%
UVA 50,941 applied, 9,504 admitted, acceptance rate 19%, 4,030 enroll, yield of 42%
UMD 56,637 applied, 25,209 admitted, acceptance rate 45%, 5,783 enroll, yield of 23%
W&M 17,548 applied, 5,741 admitted, acceptance rate 33%,1,619 enroll, yield of 28%
Georgetown 26,638 applied, 3,257 admitted, acceptance rate 12%, 1,574 enroll, yield of 48%
Johns Hopkins 37,826 applied, 2,739 admitted, acceptance rate 7%, 1,405 enroll, yield of 51%

I'm surprised to see VT, UMD and W&M yields so low. It looks like a lot applicants use those schools as a safety.

Same - I thought that W&M would have definitely had a higher yield.

[Anonymous]

For schools with ED, they can control yield and acceptance rate. For the public schools, should take a look at yield for in state vs out of state. Out of state is much lower, most likely due to costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For schools with ED, they can control yield and acceptance rate. For the public schools, should take a look at yield for in state vs out of state. Out of state is much lower, most likely due to costs.

Ok but I’m pretty sure most of those schools do early decision. Don’t they? I know UVA, W&M and Va Tech do.

[Anonymous]

UVA does so higher yield. But overall yield is lower due to the out of state portion. VATech got rid of ED this year. https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index
Haven’t played with W&M data. My kid is currently in the college process and looked at some data. For public universities you can request detailed admissions data via foia data request. One kid requested admissions data for Illinois Urbana for the engineering school by major by state residency by sex. Very detailed.

[Anonymous]

My son did indeed use UMD as a safety, and he declined W&M. He went to a university that was not more selective, but was a much better fit.

So please don't discount fit, which is very individual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For schools with ED, they can control yield and acceptance rate. For the public schools, should take a look at yield for in state vs out of state. Out of state is much lower, most likely due to costs.

Ok but I’m pretty sure most of those schools do early decision. Don’t they? I know UVA, W&M and Va Tech do.

Tech just got rid of ED. Virginia is one of the few states that has publics that have ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son did indeed use UMD as a safety, and he declined W&M. He went to a university that was not more selective, but was a much better fit.

So please don't discount fit, which is very individual.

My son turned down a WM admission to attend UMD.

[Anonymous]

The pattern seems to be, the more selective the college, the higher the yield. Kind of makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pattern seems to be, the more selective the college, the higher the yield. Kind of makes sense.

Completely obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pattern seems to be, the more selective the college, the higher the yield. Kind of makes sense.

Or can it also be, that if the yield for a college is lower, they'd increase their acceptance rate to meet their target enrollment numbers?

[Anonymous]

Meh, some schools don't bother yield protecting or manipulating it through the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh, some schools don't bother yield protecting or manipulating it through the waitlist.

The myth of yield protecting. It's called a school admitting the best candiate that serves their particular need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT 47,101 applied, 26,923 admitted, acceptance rate 57%, 7,196 enroll, yield of 27%
UVA 50,941 applied, 9,504 admitted, acceptance rate 19%, 4,030 enroll, yield of 42%
UMD 56,637 applied, 25,209 admitted, acceptance rate 45%, 5,783 enroll, yield of 23%
W&M 17,548 applied, 5,741 admitted, acceptance rate 33%,1,619 enroll, yield of 28%
Georgetown 26,638 applied, 3,257 admitted, acceptance rate 12%, 1,574 enroll, yield of 48%
Johns Hopkins 37,826 applied, 2,739 admitted, acceptance rate 7%, 1,405 enroll, yield of 51%

I'm surprised to see VT, UMD and W&M yields so low. It looks like a lot applicants use those schools as a safety.

90% of kids (non-ED) haven't even accepted yet. How on earth do you know yield percentages yet? Those may be what schools are projecting but nobody knows until April/May when all kids have accepted or not.