Reply to Notre Dame

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Notre Dame"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ND's acceptance rate is higher when compared to peers. [/quote]

Marginally.  It was 14 percent at ND, 12 at Georgetown, 9 at Rice and 21 at UVA.  It’s also had a higher yield that any of these.  You reach a point where it doesn’t matter.  [/quote]
Actually after the waitlist games ,it ( and Vanderbilt) are notoriously known for,  it's 15%. [b]Also, the yeild is higher because they have less applicants.[/b] 
On topic ND is the second best religiously affiliated school in the country. Considering both us news and WSJ. 
[/quote]

That's not how yield works, idiot.  They have a higher yield because it's more of a "destination" school than the others.  Meaning it's a first choice for more of its applicants than other schools in its peer group.  We've been alluding to this for the whole thread.

As for your claim that ND plays a "waiting list" game, you might want to google that.  You have to thrown the last two admissions cycles out the window because of the pandemic.  For example, in 2020 nearly half of Wash U's entering class was admitted off the wait list.  According to the Common Data Set for ND, before the pandemic it never admitted more than 5 percent of incoming students from the wait list and in several recent years it didn't take anyone from the wait list at all.

You're right about Vanderbilt, though.  It looks like they routinely take quite a few applicants from the WL.[/quote]
The point is out of the peer schools it's probably the easiest to get into. Vandy, Rice, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, Cornell all have lower acceptance rates. No UVA isn't a peer school. [/quote]

Higher acceptance rates don't necessarily mean a school is easier to get into.  What matters are the stats of admitted students.  ND's stats compare very well with Georgetown and Emory at a minimum. [/quote]

In the top 20 schools stats are just part of the picture.  You can get into HYPSM with the same stats as the t25 schools, but it's what you have beyond that that matters.  I think for schools that rank lower than the T30 or so, it's meaningful to compare admitted students stats rather than acceptance rates, but among the top 30 it's not mainly about higher stats after you've gotten a 1450 or whatever.  After that --acceptance rate tells you more because the lower the acceptance rate is the more you have to shine in some other way--through your achievements, your ECs beyond stats and grades (or legacy or donor of course!)  I think for schools in the 30-50 range it's far more important to look at stats because some schools are ranked high with not as strong of students, they are just popular, whereas other schools have students with far higher stats but also higher acceptance rates because they are more niche.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics