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PRINCETON preliminary yield rate falls to 56.9% for 2014
| Henna den trust fund | 05/27/10 |
| Henna den trust fund | 05/27/10 |
| Obsidian Balding Love Of Her Life Prole | 05/28/10 |
| Obsidian Balding Love Of Her Life Prole | 05/28/10 |
| Henna den trust fund | 05/28/10 |
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Date: May 27th, 2010 4:57 PM Author: Henna den trust fund Subject: 137 waitlist admits so far - "pre-melt" Yield falls to 56.9 percent for Class of 2014 By ANDREW SARTORIUS STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, May 27th, 2010 The yield for the Class of 2014 stood at 56.9 percent as of Wednesday, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an e-mail. The University has accepted 137 of the 1,415 students it placed on the waitlist, yielding a current 8.71 percent overall acceptance rate. Of the students admitted from the waitlist, 108 have accepted the offer. The year’s initial yield of 55.4 percent is almost 3 percentage points lower than the initial yield for the Class of 2013, which was 58.3 percent. Rapelye attributed the decrease to this year’s current 8.71 percent acceptance rate — the lowest ever in the University’s history — and “one of the strongest classes ever as measured by grades and test scores.”
“When the admit rate goes down, the yield is often affected,” Rapelye explained. “We are really happy to be admitting these students off the waitlist.”
While there are still 867 students currently on the waitlist, Rapelye said she is unsure whether the University will offer admission to any more of them. Last year, the Office of Admission offered places in the incoming class to waitlisted students in two rounds. This year, it will close the waitlist on June 30.
“In the last five years, [the University has] taken as many as 148 students off the waitlist,” Rapelye said, adding that waitlist acceptances for a given year are determined by national admission trends. “It really depends on what other school are doing, and whether the students on our waitlist have accepted other schools’ offers of admission.”
Applications to the Class of 2014 increased by 19.5 percent compared with last year. The University initially admitted 8.18 percent of the 26,247 applicant to the Class of 2014, making this year's admission process the most selective in University history.
Harvard, which admitted 6.92 percent of its applicants in late March, reported an initial yield of roughly 76 percent. Stanford initially took 7.18 percent of its applicants initially and saw a record yield of roughly 72 percent. Yale, which initially admitted 7.50 percent of applicants, has not yet released its yield rate. |
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Date: May 27th, 2010 9:56 PM Author: Henna den trust fund Noteworthy that they delayed announcing the yield rate until they could include the results of 137 waitlist admits. Otherwise, they would have had to announce an even lower preliminary yield rate of 55.4%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1322954&forum_id=1#15100959) |
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Date: May 28th, 2010 8:16 PM Author: Obsidian Balding Love Of Her Life Prole Subject: True By the time they are done, fully 10% of the matriculating class may have been admitted from the waitlist.
btw, your headline overstated the P yield - it wasn't 56.9, but rather 55.4. That is a major drop off from last year, which I believe was 59%. Although one must treat with a grain of salt the anecdotal info on CC and Chance Me (or whatever the modern day "revealed preference" website is called), it appears that Y is winning 75-80% of the cross admit battles with P, higher than its historic 5 out of 8 record. |
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Date: May 28th, 2010 8:21 PM Author: Obsidian Balding Love Of Her Life Prole Subject: Whoops, I'm making mistakes left and right tonight I get it - the current admit yield is 56.9 but the initial yield was 55.4. And further the headline was from the DP. not from you, so you are acquitted of all charges.
Its interesting the effect of waitlist admissions on yield. The first round of wl acceptances boosts yield. However, any later round, made to offset summer melt, will lower the previously announced yield. |
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Date: May 28th, 2010 11:59 PM Author: Henna den trust fund Subject: Correct To the extent that waitlist admits add to the matriculant total, the yield rare rises; to the extent that waitlist admits replace defectors among previously-anticipated matriculants, the yield rate falls.
And bear in mind that people who are admitted but defer a year are admits, but NOT matriculants. |