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Grad Student Yield Down A Bit At Princeton
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Date: April 29th, 2008 1:27 PM Author: Canary Irate Partner Subject: 46% yield, compared to 52% last year (Daily Princetonian) Of the 1,203 graduate student applicants admitted by the University for the 2008-09 academic year, 556 have accepted offers of admission, resulting in a preliminary yield rate of 46 percent, according to a University statement released yesterday.
Last years yield rate was slightly higher, at 52 percent. Comparing these rates, however, "is like comparing apples with oranges," Associate Dean for Academic Affairs David Redman said. Though the postmark deadline of April 15 has passed, international students admissions acceptances are still arriving in the mail, he added. The yield for the upcoming year may therefore increase in the next few days if more admissions acceptances arrive from overseas.
The Graduate School expects the total enrollment for students in their first five years of study to rise to 2,180 students from this year's enrollment of 2,030, an increase of 7 percent.
Additionally, the Graduate School expects 265 students to enroll in the Dissertation Completion Enrollment program, a drop from 275 students this year.
The program allows students who have studied at the University for longer than their department's maximum length of funded study to complete their degree requirements. |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 2:45 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brunch mental disorder whoa, my class is tiny. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9704912) |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 4:05 PM Author: underhanded spruce athletic conference locus tiny isn't a word i'd use on these forums... especially with law board lurkers around. yah shouldn't 'o done that... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9705335) |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 6:50 PM Author: Canary Irate Partner Subject: The official story says the social science admit rate was 9.6% Grad School sees continued diversity in applications by Cass Cliatt · Posted April 28, 2008; 10:55 a.m.
Princeton's Graduate School admitted 1,203 of the 9,237 applicants who applied for the 2008-09 academic year, with American students of color and international students making up 49 percent of the applicant pool. The 13 percent overall admission rate is up only slightly from the 12.9 percent of applicants who were admitted last year. However, applications were up 5.2 percent over last year's 8,778, including a continued increase in applications from students of color and international students.
The number of admitted students who accepted the school's offer of admission by the April 15 postmark deadline was 556, or 46.2 percent compared to last year's 52 percent.
Graduate School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs David Redman said efforts of the school's new associate dean for academic affairs and diversity, Karen Jackson-Weaver, who assumed the position last July, have helped increase interest from applicants of color. The school admitted 190 students of color out of 1,110 applicants, up from 169 students admitted last year.
"We did some new things in the area of recruiting during the course of the year," Redman said, referring to a "Preview Day" that brought students recruited from around the country to campus to gain first-hand experience of Princeton.
"Dean Weaver's capacity to build on initiatives holds promise for the number of students of color to continue to climb," Redman said.
International applicants continue to be encouraged by the Graduate School's decision four years ago to subsidize the visa application process. The school reimburses admitted foreign students for the $100 fee the federal government instituted in 2004 to maintain the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). While international students still pay the government the regular visa application fees, the University pays the additional fee associated with managing the federal visitor student database.
"I think we're seen as a receptive, sympathetic, friendly place for international students, and the number of international applications has been rising in recent years," Redman said.
International applications from 61 foreign countries numbered 4,184, an increase of 9.9 percent from last year's 3,805. Among the applicants, 404 were admitted, up slightly from 396 last year, with the largest number of admitted students this year hailing from China, India, Korea and Canada.
Of the overall applicant pool, male applicants made up 63 percent and women made up 37 percent.
Academic fields admitting the highest numbers of their applicants were natural sciences and engineering, which admitted about 17.6 percent and 16.5 percent of their applicants, respectively. The percentages of admitted applicants for other fields were 14.5 percent for the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 9.6 percent for the social sciences, 9.4 percent for architecture, and 8.8 percent for departments in the humanities.
The largest proportions of admitted students were in the natural sciences and mathematics; engineering and applied sciences; and social sciences.
The average standardized Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) scores for admitted graduate students were 626 out of 800 on the verbal section, 742 out of 800 on the quantitative section and 4.9 out of 6 on the analytical writing section.
The Graduate School expects total fall enrollment to be about 2,180 students in their first five years of study, which represents an increase over last year's enrollment of about 2,030 students. An additional estimated 265 students are expected to be in the Dissertation Completion Enrollment status held by students completing the dissertation portion of their degree requirement, compared to 275 students this year. |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 6:55 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brunch mental disorder none of those stats mean a whole lot (avg gres, the overall social science admit rate) - the "facts" section under the pton grad school website gives a much better breakdown of applicants/acceptances by proram (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9706421) |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 9:34 PM Author: swashbuckling shaky laser beams sorry about your tiny pick class, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9707551) |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 5:30 PM Author: mauve marketing idea if princeton's grad yield rate is only 50 percent then it must be in fierce competition with other top grad schools. if people turn down princeton where do they go? only harvard, yale, chicago, stanford, berkeley, i would imagine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9705919) |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 6:23 PM Author: crystalline motley field depends on the field, as you know.
i'm sure they lose plenty of engineering admits to places like Caltech, MIT, Berk, and probably some others, depending on the concentration. |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 6:51 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brunch mental disorder mich, wisconsin, penn, cornell...yes its very field specific
i know my cohort yield is 17/24 |
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Date: April 30th, 2008 12:19 AM Author: crystalline motley field That sounds like an excellent yield, esp. for such a large cohort that was no doubt deciding between more than one top department.
ours has been erratic (which I think is the norm for small programs). last year we managed 6/6 for whatever reason, but this year it was only 3/6. |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 1:10 AM Author: misunderstood unhinged azn I fucking hate the word 'cohort'. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9715039) |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 1:15 AM Author: crystalline motley field what do you call it, d00d? i guess you could say "group." everybody i know calls it a cohort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9715069) |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 4:21 AM Author: misunderstood unhinged azn I had a transatlantic flight a couple years back where I sat next to this smug, self-absorbed bitch who spent the majority of the trip praising herself and her "cohort" at Yale. I yearned for merciful death as I threw back as many highballs as I could get my hands on. She was ugly as hell, too. Now I hate that word with the white hot heat of a thousand suns.
How about "class"? |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 9:56 AM Author: crystalline motley field works for me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9716132) |
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Date: April 29th, 2008 9:41 PM Author: Well-lubricated public bath Oxford, Cambridge too..... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9707622) |
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Date: April 30th, 2008 3:45 AM Author: razzmatazz chapel background story When it comes to PHDs, while the IVY league is a great choice, many qualified candidates chose Big Ten schools. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9709835) |
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Date: April 30th, 2008 4:54 PM Author: mauve marketing idea my guess is that princeton probably loses more prospective phd students to big ten schools than to oxford and cambridge. oxford and cambridge aren't nearly as good as american universities especially as the doctoral level. i guess they might be good in some specific fields within the humanities. but they seem to get pwned by us schools for the social sciences. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9712469) |
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Date: April 30th, 2008 5:58 PM Author: mauve marketing idea yeah, ivy is good choice for phd, with the exception of any program at dartmouth, and most programs at brown. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9712789) |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 1:15 AM Author: razzmatazz chapel background story When getting your PHD, usually people are looking to further research they've already started and a school's name doesn't guarantee that they'll have the topic you're looking for. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=806150&forum_id=1#9715068) |