Local vs College vs Gap Year

Bill_Marsh
Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:38:22 +0000

Flynnbrady:

Waitlisted at hc? Wow, your stats are impressive! I wonder what the acceptance rate is this year…

Holy Cross has special circumstances. Last year their yield rate projections resulted in a significantly larger freshman class than they wanted. So, I expect that they will be admitting a smaller freshman class this year to compensate for that. They had already been trending toward admitting a high percent from their early decision pool - 80% last year, 83% the year before. I suspect that guidance departments have noticed this because ED applications jumped by 40% from 2 years ago to last year. If, in fact, there was a similar jump this year and if HC has continued to accept ED applicants at the same rated, and knowing that they want a smaller freshman class this year, they could fill up almost the entire freshman class from the ED pool. It makes sense for them, given their faulty yield projections last year because ED applicants are committed, so risk goes way down in projecting incoming class size.

In light of all of this I imagine that admit rated from even from EA as well as from regular applications was very low.