dtothelu

Am I right in assuming that when you get this much increase in applicants, the matriculation rates drop?

pbr

^I'm curious. Why do you think the yield rate would drop as the number of applicants increases?

dtothelu

^ well, maybe some Hypsm applicants decided to apply to Columbia since it was common app when it wasn't one of their top schools. This is all speculation of course

figureskater

CU's partner, Barnard College also experienced a surge in applications. Just a little tidbit of info.

pwoods

@dtothelu

An increase in the number of applicants, on its own, should not imply a drop in yield. The fact that Columbia switched to the CommonApp, though, suggests the yield will be lower for the very scenario you envision. That said, the yield rate probably won't drop drastically.

figureskater is absolutely correct. I'm always amazed that people think Barnard is an undesirable or unprestigious school. Their graduation speaker was the COO of Facebook (much more famous than our graduation speaker, though Ms. Wallace-Creed was nice) and their president was just named to the Board of Directors at ****ing Goldman Sachs. Half their buildings are named after the family that controls the New York Times. It may not be a world-class research university that dominates the hard sciences, but Barnard has serious cachet in the city.

figureskater

I appreciate the kind words, pwoods! I don't want to start a Barnard fight here, but a lot of what you said is why I applied ED. Also, Barnard itself might not be a research university, but I hear there's a pretty cool place for that across the street All that aside, it's safe to say that I am very excited for August 28 (BC move in) and August 21 (CUE!).

closertothestars

That's insane. Nearly everyone that I know who is top-20 bound applied to Columbia this year.