Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
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Anonymous
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Just like Airlines have to fill bums on seats, so too do Universities. No matter what games they play in managing yield (by manipulating number of admits to number waitlisted for example), the hard number is #applicants and #enrolled for the fixed number of seats they have. So how many applicants chasing each seat at the top 35 universities and Top4 LACs in USNWR? (Data is from CDS, and is #Applicants divide by #Enrolled, and ranked from most number of applicants per seat to least). This is a glimpse of what applicants are chasing. For every seat available, there are this many applicants trying to obtain it Caltech 74 Columbia 41 Harvard 37 Swarthmore 34 Stanford 32 Yale 32 Brown 30 MIT 30 Pomona 30 Duke 28 Vanderbilt 28 JHU 27 Rice 26 Amherst 26 Princeton 25 Northwestern 25 Dartmouth 24 Emory 23 Penn 23 UCLA 22 Williams 21 UCIrvine 21 USC 20 UCSanDiego 20 CarnegieM ellon 20 Cornell 19 UCBerkeley 19 UChicago 18 WashUinSL 18 Georgetown 17 NYU 16 UCDavis 14 Wellesley 14 GeorgiaTech 14 Notre Dame 14 UNCarolina 13 UVA 13 UMichigan 12 UofFlorida 10 UTAustin 7 Obviously this is University-wide data and does not reflect demand for specific majors like CS for example. CDS data is latest published by the University (most are 2023-24, some are 2022-23 and the rare one is 2021-22) |
Anonymous
| Shouldn't this be applicants divided by admitted vs enrolled? Applicants only care about acceptance...it's your choice to enroll or not. |
Anonymous
| Another pointless thread |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
agreed |
Anonymous
Yes. This is all wrong |
Anonymous
+2 |
Anonymous
Purposefully left out Wisconsin |
Anonymous
It depends on what you are looking for in the data. If only acceptance chances, sure. But when someone enrolls at a particular University out of the multiple admissions they have, they intrinsically have voted their preference of that over others they were accepted to. Aggregating this data (of acceptance times yield) provides a measure of the relative ranking of Universities, as indicated by the actual choices students make,l. |
Anonymous
Not purposefully. Added above for your reference. You could also for any other University missing look at the CDS and pullout the data. This is about a methodology not an exhaustive list of every University. |
Anonymous
| There could be one kid applying to 20 of those. But that kid can only take one place, even if offered all 20. This exercise is meaningless… |
Anonymous
| Those numbers look very small to me. |