Anonymous
11/02/2025 22:05
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
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%
Where is that data from?
Anonymous
11/02/2025 21:59
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
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%
Anonymous
11/02/2025 21:31
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
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..
Anonymous
11/02/2025 21:25
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield
UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield
“That’s because whatever stats this “magazine” uses is wrong. UVA’s yield is 40-45%. Google it.”
The pp was talking about the yield rate for only the top publics in Montgomery county so overall yield rates are not applicable here. Even with ED to help booster yield at UVA, Michigan’s yield rate was much higher.
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield
UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield
“That’s because whatever stats this “magazine” uses is wrong. UVA’s yield is 40-45%. Google it.”
The pp was talking about the yield rate for only the top publics in Montgomery county so overall yield rates are not applicable here. Even with ED to help booster yield at UVA, Michigan’s yield rate was much higher.
Anonymous
11/02/2025 20:43
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.
Same goes for Dartmouth, Dartmouth hates Montgomery County lol. Penn/Cornell are much friendlier.
Why? That's a strong word.
Anonymous
11/02/2025 20:41
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
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
Thx for summarizing for the those who didn't want to click yet another link
Anonymous
11/02/2025 20:32
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
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.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 23:46
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.
264 total applied, 16 accepted, 11 attending.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 23:43
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.
Same goes for Dartmouth, Dartmouth hates Montgomery County lol. Penn/Cornell are much friendlier.
Dartmouth is tiny. They are filling a class of 1050 before athletes, legacies, Questbridge, etc. etc. That is a couple of hundred unhooked spots for kids worldwide.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 23:36
Subject: Re:Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
Arlington magazine had very disappointing results for Ivies
Anonymous
11/01/2025 23:24
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
no, you are wrong pp. Pay attention to the discussion
Anonymous
11/01/2025 23:12
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
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
That’s because whatever stats this “magazine” uses is wrong. UVA’s yield is 40-45%. Google it.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 18:53
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.
Same goes for Dartmouth, Dartmouth hates Montgomery County lol. Penn/Cornell are much friendlier.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 18:50
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 18:40
Subject: Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!
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
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