Highest Enrollment Rate

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<p>Which college has the highest turnover from acceptance to enrollment?</p>

<p>I was looking at Harvard and Princeton… 67% of accepted students enroll at Princeton and 78% enrollment rate at Harvard. I was just wondering, does it go any higher than that.</p>

<p>I thought, maybe Cooper Union, but that has only a 70% turnover rate (you’d think full-tuition would pull in 90+%)</p>

<p>I’m also curious of which 1st tier college or university has the lowest enrollment rate?</p>

<p>For Case Western, only 20% of those accepted actually attend. Does it get any lower than that for big name schools?</p>

<p>If you know of any, please share, you can use [Yahoo Education’s Petersons Database](<a href=“Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos”>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos) to find the figures…</p>

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<p>By the way the Ivies are:</p>

<p>Princeton - 78%
Yale - 70%
Harvard - 67%
Brown - 57%
Columbia - 52%
Cornell - 50%
Dartmouth - 50%</p>

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<p>You got Harvard and Princeton switched, and you forgot Penn, which had 65% last year.</p>

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<p>chicago is about at 30 percent enrolling</p>

<p>northwestern/rice/duke are about 40-45 percent enrolling</p>

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<p>Much of the difference will reflect the proportion of the class admitted early. Of course, those admitted ED arebound to attend. So a high proportion of class filled ED= high yield. But, at this level, EA admits overwhelmingly go to their EA school. So again, a high proportion admitted early= high yield. This may not tell you anything else but an admissions policy on the percent of class filled early.</p>

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<p>Sorry about that:</p>

<p>Harvard - 78%
Yale - 70%
Cooper Union - 70%
Princeton - 67%
Brigham Young - 66%
Penn - 62%
Brown - 57%
Columbia - 52%
Cornell - 50%
Dartmouth - 50%
Duke - 43%
Northwestern - 41%
Rice - 40%
Wake Forest 38%
University of Chicago - 34%
Case Western - 20%</p>

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<p>Deep Springs College = ~95%</p>

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<p>Deep Springs is 100%, but their admissions is through a three-phase interview process, ending with the election of 10-15 students into the community by the current student body. It’s almost an appointment process that you cannot turn down, and in fact, I believe only 2 people have ever turned down admission to Deep Springs, so really its unfair to compare their admissions to the standard applicant pool.</p>

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<p>what about berea college?</p>

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<p>MIT has a 65% yield rate. I thought it would be higher!</p>

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<p>Well, a decent number of mit admits get into Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, etc … some chose them over MIT. Others, CA residents may even chose Berkeley over MIT (usually intending to go into engineering) since it’s about on par and much less expensive.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Nice one dwincho, Berea College has a 71% yield.</p>

<p>Harvard - 78%
Berea - 71%
Yale - 70%
Cooper Union - 70%
Princeton - 67%
Brigham Young - 66%
MIT - 65%
Penn - 62%
Brown - 57%
Columbia - 52%
Cornell - 50%
Dartmouth - 50%
Duke - 43%
Northwestern - 41%
Rice - 40%
Wake Forest 38%
University of Chicago - 34%
RPI - 27%
Case Western - 20%</p>

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<p>of course penn accepts more of its class ED than any other ivy (giving it a highly inflated yield), while harvard and yale are SCEA</p>

<p>a fairer measure would be to look at just the ED yields for all the schools</p>

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<p>Columbia’s yield is 58%.</p>

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<p>Maybe I miss the point ~ but does this really matter?</p>

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<p>actually yes, yield rate is infinitely more important than acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>Without looking it up I can tell you that those would all be 99.999% :-&lt;/p>

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<p>lol I think he meant RD for schools that use ED and get 100 percent of those apps</p>

<p>It matters, but there are exceptions and considerations, like with all things. For example, a certain school may have a very high yield if its applicants don’t get into other top schools, whereas another school that is better might have a lower yield if its accepted students got into a number of other top schools. Plus schools that accept half of the student body ED can’t be compared to a school that accepts less than that.</p>

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<p>“Deep Springs is 100%”</p>

<p>About 95% is correct - trust me on this one. An acceptance at DS is not binding in any way; each year about one acceptee turns down the opportunity to attend. Is comparing DS to other schools unfair? Possibly, but the only reason their yield rate is so high is because their applicant pool is very self selective.</p>