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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll agree that a 80% or 90% yield rate is highly unlikely.

But one way schools can and do affect yield rates is to heavily weight a high likelihood of attending in the Admissions process. This is one reason they want to know “Where else are you applying?”

Those who refuse to answer this question or who artfully dodge it take the risk of having the Admissions people assign a probability of attending if accepted number to their application.

Offering acceptance to those who are extremely likely or almost guaranteed to attend drives up yield rates.

It also increases the likelihood that the student and family will be happy at the school over the time they are there.[/quote]

Actually, it is near 90% for US.  For lower grades like K, yes, much lower yield. Perhaps 70% is likely.  At K, everyone applies at multiple places as there are tons of open spots.

For 9th, much fewer spots. Perhaps 30 or so.

About 6-10 will be recruited athletes. So those are a lock.

The other 20 or so spots are up for grabs.  Admissions will likely only offer 20 people admissions.  If 17-18 accept, then they will fill the final open spots from wait pool.  One year they offered like 24-25 spots and I think 22 took them and evened up with a class that was too large.

So it depends on grade.  But yeah.  80-90% is reasonable.[/quote]

If what you are saying is true, then what it says is that the Admissions staff puts a tremendous amount of emphasis on "Likeliness to attend if accepted". They offer admissions only to those who are almost guaranteed to attend if accepted.

They don't take a chance on good candidates they aren't sure of or almost sure of.

I guess that's possible.

The success in the "recruited athletes" group is also remarkable. Of course they aren't really "recruited". But here again, they'd have to identify athletes they wanted and get them to apply and then be certain they would accept if offered a spot.

To do that they'd have to have quite a recruiting effort to identify a large enough group, encourage them to apply and then sort through those until they had a group that was sure to attend.

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