@rbc2018 Source?
There’s an anonymous “housing staff person” who’s tossing around a number on reddit. Believe at your own peril.
VT’s yield from 2009-2018 has ranged between 30.3 (2018) and 39.9 (2013). 2017 yield was 35.6. But you don’t necessarily need a big uptick in offers to see a jump in incoming class size. All it takes is an unusual bump in the # who accept. If you use 2018 numbers, it would be a 38.6 yield to generate 8,000 enrolled (if my math is correct). That is within their historical range and is below 2010, 2013, and 2015.
I’m hopeful for the incoming class that the rumors posted elsewhere are unfounded. But clearly they are expecting a large incoming class. It would be interesting to know if the waiver for on campus housing was ever offered before in those high yield years.