UR Admissions...Any Final Stats for Class of 2012

Spiders05
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:43:14 +0000

Otis, there were roughly 8,000 applications this year, which was up from 6,652 last year, or 20%. Roughly 1,940 were admitted this year, putting the acceptance rate at 24.25% compared to nearly 40% last year. This year’s yield is approximately 38.5%. A part of the big increase in the yield/acceptance rate is due an increase in the number of ED admits going from 150 last year to 200 this year. In 2003, UR received 6,079 applicants and in 1998, they received 5,715 applicants.

As for the stadium, the special use permits have been submitted to the city and UR is currently awaiting for that approval. Construction should commence this fall and be ready for the 2010 season. The football team has a new coach this year (former UR player and former defensive/recruiting coordinator at UVA, Mike London). If we still had our former coach, I think we would be making a push for the national title this year, but with a new coach and the players having to learn a new system, I think we’ll be very good and could still push for the title but I will have to wait to see the product on the field. We return 19 starters from last year and have two guys coming back who were starters two years ago but were injured last year, so essentially we’ve lost just one guy from last year’s semi-final team. The football stadium is probably three miles from campus as the crow flies. Transportation is not provided by the school. Last year, the student turnout for football was very good. We had a couple of games where half the student body was at the game. Students are admitted for free. In regards to basketball, the team has been pretty poor the last 5 years, but this past season we finished 4th in the A-10 and made a postseason tournament. The team returns 7 of the top 8 scorers and we add some quality freshmen, so we should compete for an NCAA bid this year and I believe that student attendance will be better because of the success.

As for the gunman on campus, the “gun” was a pellet gun that a 19 year old non-student brought. There were no hostages or injuries. It is unclear why the student came to campus but it sounds like he could be mental (said he heard people were fornicating in the library so he needed to spend the night there). By all accounts the school did a nice job of responding and are now revising certain procedures to make the response even better in the case that something ever happens in the future. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time something like this has happened at UR.