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<p>Actually there are 4: fall admits, spring admits, transfers, and successful rejection appeals.</p>
<p>If the yield reflects fall enrolls, that’s not the same thing as fall admits. The latter is what I’m interested in - as the admissions office announced it would, and then did, accept the same raw number of fall admits as in years past despite a large increase in applications with the common app. The result being a very pronounced decrease in acceptance rate - perhaps the interim goal.</p>
<p>Again simple curiosity. I just returned from 4 days at USC with my child moving into freshman housing and am nearly as excited as she is.</p>
<p>@phantasmagoric: waitlist is not more ethical than spring admission. Some colleges waitlist exponentially more students than there is space in the entire freshman class - Duke to name one. These students spend the summer hoping for a call, while a handful (or none) is cherry picked by admissions officers.</p>