Why is uga admissions so bizarre?

bernie2012
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:16:37 +0000

Many schools may sometimes defer or deny admission to students which they strongly believe will matriculate elsewhere (because they want a lower admission rate to create a perception of selectivity, but they still want to admit only those that might enroll. Yield rate also plays into things such as U.S. Newsweek rankings.) This is said to even occur at some of the top institutions which are considered Ivy peers. The whole yield thing may be a reason why Emory, for example, has kept its admission rate roughly the same (as opposed to our peers whose rates have dropped quite a bit, Vandy as an example) over the past 3 years. It’s a balancing act. In our case, it’s the opposite of what I am trying to say about UGA. Our rate has not dropped off precipitously because we might be afraid to given our current yield rate of only like 30%, which is why Emory’s admits like 4,000 per class, even though it only has room for 1300 or so. If we try to push it closer to that 1300 (with most being in the regular decision pool), with admission of only the most selective, there is a high chance that those may actually matriculate at a peer. There is always risk involved in that process. Point is, schools who want higher ranks want: lower admission rate(with higher stats of course), but higher matriculation rates. It can be tough to get this done based upon what I just explained.

Jenmarie, you beat me to it lol :).