Anonymous
04/26/2024 21:35
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Those numbers look very small to me.
Anonymous
04/26/2024 21:29
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
There could be one kid applying to 20 of those. But that kid can only take one place, even if offered all 20. This exercise is meaningless…
Anonymous
04/26/2024 19:54
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Just like Airlines have to fill bums on seats, so too do Universities. No matter what games they play in managing yield (by manipulating number of admits to number waitlisted for example), the hard number is #applicants and #enrolled for the fixed number of seats they have.
So how many applicants chasing each seat at the top 35 universities and Top4 LACs in USNWR? (Data is from CDS, and is #Applicants divide by #Enrolled, and ranked from most number of applicants per seat to least). This is a glimpse of what applicants are chasing.
For every seat available, there are this many applicants trying to obtain it
Caltech 74
Columbia 41
Harvard 37
Swarthmore 34
Stanford 32
Yale 32
Brown 30
MIT 30
Pomona 30
Duke 28
Vanderbilt 28
JHU 27
Rice 26
Amherst 26
Princeton 25
Northwestern 25
Dartmouth 24
Emory 23
Penn 23
UCLA 22
UCSB 22
Williams 21
UCIrvine 21
USC 20
UCSanDiego 20
CarnegieM ellon 20
Cornell 19
UCBerkeley 19
UChicago 18
WashUinSL 18
Georgetown 17
NYU 16
UCDavis 14
Wellesley 14
GeorgiaTech 14
Notre Dame 14
UNCarolina 13
UVA 13
UMichigan 12
UofFlorida 10
UIUC 8
UWisconsin Madison 8
UTAustin 7
Obviously this is University-wide data and does not reflect demand for specific majors like CS for example. CDS data is latest published by the University (most are 2023-24, some are 2022-23 and the rare one is 2021-22)
Purposefully left out Wisconsin
Not purposefully. Added above for your reference. You could also for any other University missing look at the CDS and pullout the data. This is about a methodology not an exhaustive list of every University.
Anonymous
04/26/2024 19:10
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't this be applicants divided by admitted vs enrolled? Applicants only care about acceptance...it's your choice to enroll or not.
It depends on what you are looking for in the data. If only acceptance chances, sure. But when someone enrolls at a particular University out of the multiple admissions they have, they intrinsically have voted their preference of that over others they were accepted to. Aggregating this data (of acceptance times yield) provides a measure of the relative ranking of Universities, as indicated by the actual choices students make,l.
Anonymous
04/23/2024 16:02
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Anonymous wrote:
Just like Airlines have to fill bums on seats, so too do Universities. No matter what games they play in managing yield (by manipulating number of admits to number waitlisted for example), the hard number is #applicants and #enrolled for the fixed number of seats they have.
So how many applicants chasing each seat at the top 35 universities and Top4 LACs in USNWR? (Data is from CDS, and is #Applicants divide by #Enrolled, and ranked from most number of applicants per seat to least). This is a glimpse of what applicants are chasing.
For every seat available, there are this many applicants trying to obtain it
Caltech 74
Columbia 41
Harvard 37
Swarthmore 34
Stanford 32
Yale 32
Brown 30
MIT 30
Pomona 30
Duke 28
Vanderbilt 28
JHU 27
Rice 26
Amherst 26
Princeton 25
Northwestern 25
Dartmouth 24
Emory 23
Penn 23
UCLA 22
Williams 21
UCIrvine 21
USC 20
UCSanDiego 20
CarnegieM ellon 20
Cornell 19
UCBerkeley 19
UChicago 18
WashUinSL 18
Georgetown 17
NYU 16
UCDavis 14
Wellesley 14
GeorgiaTech 14
Notre Dame 14
UNCarolina 13
UVA 13
UMichigan 12
UofFlorida 10
UTAustin 7
Obviously this is University-wide data and does not reflect demand for specific majors like CS for example. CDS data is latest published by the University (most are 2023-24, some are 2022-23 and the rare one is 2021-22)
Purposefully left out Wisconsin
Anonymous
04/23/2024 15:20
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Another pointless thread
+1
+2
Anonymous
04/23/2024 13:40
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't this be applicants divided by admitted vs enrolled? Applicants only care about acceptance...it's your choice to enroll or not.
agreed
Yes.
This is all wrong
Anonymous
04/23/2024 13:35
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't this be applicants divided by admitted vs enrolled? Applicants only care about acceptance...it's your choice to enroll or not.
agreed
Anonymous
04/23/2024 13:29
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Anonymous wrote:Another pointless thread
+1
Anonymous
04/23/2024 11:53
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Another pointless thread
Anonymous
04/23/2024 11:39
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Shouldn't this be applicants divided by admitted vs enrolled? Applicants only care about acceptance...it's your choice to enroll or not.
Anonymous
04/23/2024 11:32
Subject: Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs
Just like Airlines have to fill bums on seats, so too do Universities. No matter what games they play in managing yield (by manipulating number of admits to number waitlisted for example), the hard number is #applicants and #enrolled for the fixed number of seats they have.
So how many applicants chasing each seat at the top 35 universities and Top4 LACs in USNWR? (Data is from CDS, and is #Applicants divide by #Enrolled, and ranked from most number of applicants per seat to least). This is a glimpse of what applicants are chasing.
For every seat available, there are this many applicants trying to obtain it
Caltech 74
Columbia 41
Harvard 37
Swarthmore 34
Stanford 32
Yale 32
Brown 30
MIT 30
Pomona 30
Duke 28
Vanderbilt 28
JHU 27
Rice 26
Amherst 26
Princeton 25
Northwestern 25
Dartmouth 24
Emory 23
Penn 23
UCLA 22
Williams 21
UCIrvine 21
USC 20
UCSanDiego 20
CarnegieM ellon 20
Cornell 19
UCBerkeley 19
UChicago 18
WashUinSL 18
Georgetown 17
NYU 16
UCDavis 14
Wellesley 14
GeorgiaTech 14
Notre Dame 14
UNCarolina 13
UVA 13
UMichigan 12
UofFlorida 10
UTAustin 7
Obviously this is University-wide data and does not reflect demand for specific majors like CS for example. CDS data is latest published by the University (most are 2023-24, some are 2022-23 and the rare one is 2021-22)