Making sense of acceptance rate

ucbalumnus
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:06:34 +0000

ProudDramaMama:

All of the stats put Virginia Tech’s acceptance rates around 57 percent. But my son’s acceptance letter says there were more than 57,600 applications for 7,085 seats in the first-year class. That puts it more like 12 percent.

57600 * A * Y = 7085

A = 0.57 (admission rate 57%)

That means that

Y = 0.2158 (yield rate 21.58%)

(Or at least using these estimated or predicted numbers.)