In WashU's defense...

raghavp
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:39:06 +0000

Anyway, I’m not too clear on this “acceptance rate manipulation” thing…

If someone gets admitted off the waitlist, isn’t he/she also factored in the overall admit rate later on?



To my knowledge, they are factored in the overall rate but hopefully the next bit will help:

a= people admitted (not counting waitlist)
b= people accepted the admission offer (again, not waitlist)
w= people accepted and attending through waitlist

if the original matriculation rate is
b/(a)**

then the final rate is
b*(100)/(a+w)**

As you can clearly see, the rate will be increased by accepting waitlisted students, if only by a small percentage.

BTW: I’m not suggesting WashU actually does this.