@SomeChoirGuy - In post #20, you said:
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According to http://admissions.calpoly.edu/prospective/profile.html Cal Poly's acceptance rate in the category of "Architecture & Env. Design" is 882/1,845, or about 47.8% (compared to 37% overall, which is odd).
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You have to isolate the architecture school from the other majors (see one way below).
In 2014, Cal Poly SLO’s architecture school acceptance rate was about 31%.
Not crazy selective (about 1 in 3), but not 47.8% either.
If you see any errors, please correct.
How Estimated
Cal Poly SLO’s College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Source: http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/quickfacts.html
If you follow the links, you’ll find “fact books” that give information by year.
In 2014, Cal Poly’s overall College of Architecture & Environmental Design received 1,841 applications and accepted 880 students, an overall acceptance rate of 47.8%.
From the accepted number 880, 454 enrolled, for an overall yield of 51.6%.
The fact book indicates that the College of Architecture & Environmental Design includes five different majors:
- Architecture
- Architectural Engineering
- City and Regional Planning
- Construction Management
- Landscape Architecture
Of the enrolled number of 454, 186 of them were architecture students:
• Architectural 186
The other 268 enrollees were spread across the other four majors:
• Architectural Engineering 98
• City and Regional Planning 32
• Construction Management 101
• Landscape Architecture 37
The Architecture School’s own “about us” page indicate that in 2014 it received 996 freshman applications, out of which 186 were enrolled as freshman:
http://www.architecture.calpoly.edu/about
196 enrolled from 996 that applied produces a combined “selected and enrolled” rate of 18.67%.
They don’t give a separate acceptance rate (but it must be larger than overall selected and enrolled rate of 18.67%).
They also don’t give a yield, but the yield is surely higher than the college’s overall yield of 51.6%.
Let’s guess that the architecture yield is 60%.
If 60%, the architecture school would have needed to accept 310 students to yield 186 enrollees.
If the number accepted was 310, and the number that applied was 996, then the school of architecture’s isolated acceptance rate is 310/996, or about 31%.
If the yield is higher, say 70%, than the school would have needed to accept only 268 students, and the acceptance rate would drop to about 27%.