<p>Yield refers to how many students actually enroll of those who were accepted. It is highly unusual for everyone who is offered an acceptance to actually enroll at most any school, as most students have more than one acceptance and can only attend one school. The places with very high yield rates tend to be schools like CMU’s BFA or Harvard (BA). TSU’s BFA in MT has not been around long. I understand in their one admissions cycle so far, that those offered an acceptance, took the offer. However, I do know that they gave out some very big scholarship offers last year and the school is way cheaper than others which may have helped them yield some of those students last year who may have been admitted elsewhere. TSU’s program has only one year of yield rate to go by and no pattern to ascertain from that to determine what the yield may be this year. As can be observed, there are students with an acceptance to TSU who got into CCM and UMich, for example, and so unless finances are a huge issue for such a student, they MIGHT choose CCM or UMich over TSU. However, as observed last year, it can happen for someone holding such acceptances to go to TSU, particularly if finances impact the decision significantly. Keep in mind, in this very competitive process, that SOME students who want a BFA, get into only one BFA (I have had about one student per year where this has occurred and it is rather common) and so those students do attend the BFA they were accepted to. </p>
<p>In any case, there will be kids accepted to TSU who are accepted elsewhere and no guarantee that such students will all pick TSU first. It remains to be seen, no matter their yield in the one cycle they have had previously.</p>