Here is an interesting web page:
If you scroll down to “Student characteristics comparison”, select the desired applicant level, select breakdown by HS GPA or transfer GPA (matching the applicant level), and select a specific admitted campus, you can seen how yield to that campus changes by GPA range (among GPA ranges with larger numbers of admits).
It also shows that as GPA increases, admits going to other UCs and private selective (<50% admit rate) colleges tend to increase, admits going to non-CA public selective (<50% admit rate) stay roughly flat or tend to increase (depending on UC campus admitted to), while admits going to CSUs, California community colleges and other (presumably less selective colleges) decrease.
Also note that transfer admits are much more likely to choose UCs or CSUs relative to out-of-state universities than frosh admits.
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I wonder if the UCLA admits who turn down UCLA for OOS Publics were from those respective states. Otherwise, it’s not too suprising “high” GPA students would get accepted to “better” schools in their chosen major and choose to matriculate in those schools.
I mean, if cost is no object, I would imagine a ECE/CS kid would easily turn down UCLA for UCB/Stanford/MIT/CMU.
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You make the assumption that even if two schools have no cost differential as an example - that if you got into - pick two schools - UCLA and U of Arizona - that every single person would choose UCLA - and that’s not the case.
Many purposely choose - whatever you want to call it - less selective, less prestigious over the other - each and every day.
Both mine did.
Some just fit some kids better than others.
No. That’s not what I’m saying.
I saw on the list that there were UCLA Admits who chose to go to OOS Public and wonder how many were from those states. UT Austin for example, would cost a CA kid over $44k in tuition to attend vs CA instate tuition of $14K (NOT total cost, just the tuition). I know people do choose OOS Publics over their own state school for various reasons. And yes, I’m simply transfering my own bias into my own question.
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Note that it also means that (for example) when UCSC admits a student reaching for it (e.g. the 3.40-3.59 HS GPA range with 17% yield), it presumably counts that admit as ~0.17 of a student until the admit actually informs UCSC of their decision. But a top-end admit (e.g. the 4.20+ HS GPA range with 3% yield) would be counted as ~0.03 of a student until the admit actually informs UCSC of their decision.
Presumably, other colleges do a similar yield analysis.
It also means that as students inform the colleges of their decisions, the colleges can keep a running total of the expected class size (e.g. the admit reaching for UCSC changes from ~0.17 to 1 or 0 after they inform UCSC). If the running expected class size shrinks (due to actual yield falling below expectation) as some admits inform the college before May 1, the college may decide to use the waitlist before May 1.
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