Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!

[Anonymous]

So much of the discussion I see happening here are anecdotes, so I wanted to see what the #s were based on hard data. These are the results from https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/ which tracks college acceptances across the top publics in Montgomery County. Stats for select public universities, ordering based on acceptance rate highest to lowest:

University of Maryland, College Park
32.4% acceptance rate, 43% yield

University of Wisconsin
26.4% acceptance rate, 30% yield

Berkeley
14.7% acceptance rate, 32% yield

UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield

UNC
11.6% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UCLA
11.3% acceptance rate, 28% yield

UT, Austin
7.8% acceptance rate, 33% yield

My thoughts here:
1) Didn't realize UMCP now has a 33% acceptance rate, even considering this is in-state!
2) Not surprised by low acceptance rates for UNC, UCLA, UT-Austin given their limit on out-of-state, but was surprised to see Berkeley's acceptance rate higher than UVA/UMich.
3) UVA's yield is very low, maybe this is a bias between going OOS to Virginia, when Maryland is the in-state school?
4) Michigan has a very high yield relative to other top publics, students really love this school apparently

[Anonymous]

Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.

Same goes for Dartmouth, Dartmouth hates Montgomery County lol. Penn/Cornell are much friendlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much of the discussion I see happening here are anecdotes, so I wanted to see what the #s were based on hard data. These are the results from https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/ which tracks college acceptances across the top publics in Montgomery County. Stats for select public universities, ordering based on acceptance rate highest to lowest:

University of Maryland, College Park
32.4% acceptance rate, 43% yield

University of Wisconsin
26.4% acceptance rate, 30% yield

Berkeley
14.7% acceptance rate, 32% yield

UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield

UNC
11.6% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UCLA
11.3% acceptance rate, 28% yield

UT, Austin
7.8% acceptance rate, 33% yield

My thoughts here:
1) Didn't realize UMCP now has a 33% acceptance rate, even considering this is in-state!
2) Not surprised by low acceptance rates for UNC, UCLA, UT-Austin given their limit on out-of-state, but was surprised to see Berkeley's acceptance rate higher than UVA/UMich.
3) UVA's yield is very low, maybe this is a bias between going OOS to Virginia, when Maryland is the in-state school?
4) Michigan has a very high yield relative to other top publics, students really love this school apparently

That’s because whatever stats this “magazine” uses is wrong. UVA’s yield is 40-45%. Google it.

[Anonymous]

no, you are wrong pp. Pay attention to the discussion

[Anonymous]

Arlington magazine had very disappointing results for Ivies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.

Same goes for Dartmouth, Dartmouth hates Montgomery County lol. Penn/Cornell are much friendlier.

Dartmouth is tiny. They are filling a class of 1050 before athletes, legacies, Questbridge, etc. etc. That is a couple of hundred unhooked spots for kids worldwide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.

264 total applied, 16 accepted, 11 attending.

[Anonymous]

Emory is horrendous as is Georgetown on a relative basis. Hopkins and Cornell are underrated. I think Hopkins has the most number of applications and strongest yield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much of the discussion I see happening here are anecdotes, so I wanted to see what the #s were based on hard data. These are the results from https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/ which tracks college acceptances across the top publics in Montgomery County. Stats for select public universities, ordering based on acceptance rate highest to lowest:

University of Maryland, College Park
32.4% acceptance rate, 43% yield

University of Wisconsin
26.4% acceptance rate, 30% yield

Berkeley
14.7% acceptance rate, 32% yield

UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield

UNC
11.6% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UCLA
11.3% acceptance rate, 28% yield

UT, Austin
7.8% acceptance rate, 33% yield

My thoughts here:
1) Didn't realize UMCP now has a 33% acceptance rate, even considering this is in-state!
2) Not surprised by low acceptance rates for UNC, UCLA, UT-Austin given their limit on out-of-state, but was surprised to see Berkeley's acceptance rate higher than UVA/UMich.
3) UVA's yield is very low, maybe this is a bias between going OOS to Virginia, when Maryland is the in-state school?
4) Michigan has a very high yield relative to other top publics, students really love this school apparently

Thx for summarizing for the those who didn't want to click yet another link

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.

Same goes for Dartmouth, Dartmouth hates Montgomery County lol. Penn/Cornell are much friendlier.

Why? That's a strong word.

[Anonymous]

UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield


“That’s because whatever stats this “magazine” uses is wrong. UVA’s yield is 40-45%. Google it.”

The pp was talking about the yield rate for only the top publics in Montgomery county so overall yield rates are not applicable here. Even with ED to help booster yield at UVA, Michigan’s yield rate was much higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory is horrendous as is Georgetown on a relative basis. Hopkins and Cornell are underrated. I think Hopkins has the most number of applications and strongest yield.

Super interesting that both had higher acceptance rates than UVA/UMich..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory is horrendous as is Georgetown on a relative basis. Hopkins and Cornell are underrated. I think Hopkins has the most number of applications and strongest yield.

Super interesting that both had higher acceptance rates than UVA/UMich..

Number of applications/ acceptance rate/ yield for popular private schools on DCUM:

Hopkins: 490/5.7%/79%
Penn: 490 / 6.3% / 58%
Cornell 400/10%/64%
Duke 363/6.9%/68%
Georgetown 275/17%/40%
Vandy 226/15%/59%
Emory 249/16.4%/24%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory is horrendous as is Georgetown on a relative basis. Hopkins and Cornell are underrated. I think Hopkins has the most number of applications and strongest yield.

Super interesting that both had higher acceptance rates than UVA/UMich..

Number of applications/ acceptance rate/ yield for popular private schools on DCUM:

Hopkins: 490/5.7%/79%
Penn: 490 / 6.3% / 58%
Cornell 400/10%/64%
Duke 363/6.9%/68%
Georgetown 275/17%/40%
Vandy 226/15%/59%
Emory 249/16.4%/24%

Where is that data from?