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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is "accepted" really an "accepted" or does it mean "enrolled"?

I looked at several schools that frequently get mentioned on DCUM. Arizona State only had 3 accepted of the 17 that applied? CU Boulder was 40 of 57? (lowest SAT was < 1000.)

I think this report has some data issues.

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If they meant enrolled, they would have said so.  Could be that many of the students who applied to Arizona State were not that qualified, showed little genuine interest, etc. -- you can't draw firm conclusions from a total of 17 students.  Plus, if the 47 for UVA meant enrolled and the school has a, say, 50% yield rate, do you think 94 were accepted from the 196 applicants?  No way.   [/quote]

I picked out ASU and CU-Boulder because I have a little experience with them (either an alum or DC applied there). I don't live in VA, so no experience with instate UVA. Anyway....  Arizona State is considered "easy" to get into by DCUM and the acceptance rate is around 90%. So yes, 17% is an outlier. Boulder is less so, but still seems off. I stopped looking after that point.

Finally, as another poster said, this is likely Naviance data. The problem with Naviance is so much is self reported, other than Applied and Enrolled (which we don't have). I think the UVA students may have been more motivated to indicate they were "accepted" to UVA than the Arizona State students who maybe were using it as a safety school.

Honestly, I cannot believe this information was published. There are so many small cell sizes. Some colleges have 1 applied, 1 accepted. Well, guess what that student's scores were? Even when it is 2 or 3 accepted.... those numbers are so easy to back out as well, esp. since giving the Mean and Min scores. US Census won't display data is less than 5. WL is letting their alumni down. 
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