Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!

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Whitman students appear to have done well.

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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%

Northwestern University: 328 applied/ 28 accepted (8.5%)/ 13 attended (yield = 46.4%)

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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.

The article doesn't indicate which students got in ED (100% yield) vs no ED. So you can't say Hopkins/Cornell are underated?

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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.

The article doesn't indicate which students got in ED (100% yield) vs no ED. So you can't say Hopkins/Cornell are underated?

when selectivity and yield are both magnitudes better, it does appear so

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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%

Northwestern University: 328 applied/ 28 accepted (8.5%)/ 13 attended (yield = 46.4%)

The 13 got their rejections from an Ivy.

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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

UMich is really popular with MoCo students. It is surprising, b/c like UVA it's $90K per year.

However, UVA doesn't have the same appeal among MoCo public school students. Maybe, people feel that UMD is just as good but 3x less expensive?

Michigan has a stronger national/ international reputation than UVA. It’s not that complicated why it’s yield is much higher among OOS applicants assuming equal $$$

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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%

Northwestern University: 328 applied/ 28 accepted (8.5%)/ 13 attended (yield = 46.4%)

The 13 got their rejections from an Ivy.

Considering that NU isn’t anywhere near the area, that a very respectable yield. NU is as good as any Ivy not HYP.

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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%

Northwestern University: 328 applied/ 28 accepted (8.5%)/ 13 attended (yield = 46.4%)

The 13 got their rejections from an Ivy.

Considering that NU isn’t anywhere near the area, that a very respectable yield. NU is as good as any Ivy not HYP.

I wonder what their overall yield is across all admits. Probably on par with a lot of schools but not any better.

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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%

Northwestern University: 328 applied/ 28 accepted (8.5%)/ 13 attended (yield = 46.4%)

The 13 got their rejections from an Ivy.

Considering that NU isn’t anywhere near the area, that a very respectable yield. NU is as good as any Ivy not HYP.

I wonder what their overall yield is across all admits. Probably on par with a lot of schools but not any better.

Approximately 57%.

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Anonymous wrote:

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%

Northwestern University: 328 applied/ 28 accepted (8.5%)/ 13 attended (yield = 46.4%)

The 13 got their rejections from an Ivy.

The 3 from my kid's school were all ED

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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%

Northwestern University: 328 applied/ 28 accepted (8.5%)/ 13 attended (yield = 46.4%)

The 13 got their rejections from an Ivy.

The 3 from my kid's school were all ED

Of course they were. Too many coasters think everyone wants Ivy.