“Yale’s undergraduate acceptance rate for the class of 2021 will increase in the coming admissions cycle because of the 175 additional spots in the freshman class afforded by the two new residential colleges.” …
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/11/04/yale-acceptance-rate-set-to-increase/
“Using the size of **last year’s **application pool as a benchmark, an additional 350 acceptance letters would bring the admissions rate to around 7.38 percent, a roughly 1 percentage point jump over the previous year.”
At this point, my reaction is Huh? Not only is 1% small, but if the number of apps continues to grow, this supposed increase could be negligible.
^Right – there is no way the writer can predict whether or not the application pool won’t jump. What is known is that the number of admissions offers will increase. As to the “rate” – that’s anyone’s guess. Only known by January.
I know of no Miss Cleo psychics working at Yale admissions or the YDN. IMHO, that’s a very poor choice of an article title. Misleading.
I’m guessing there’ll be a disproportionate increase in the number and percent of SCEA offers of admission, because those applicants are the most likely to matriculate. Yale knows its yield is going to fall this year; I imagine it will want to limit the damage.
@DeepBlue86, you’re “guessing” about offers and deciding what Yale “knows” about its yield; you could be right. Or, you could be wrong.
I don’t know anything myself, other than that I could argue that the well-known increase in seats might result in more applications, SCEA and RD.
This year will be better than last, no matter how incrementally small. Take advantage. Good Luck. This could be your year!
I’m guessing for sure (as I said), but it’s not entirely uninformed speculation. Yale disclosed a yield of just over 70% in last year’s admissions season. This year, the director of admissions states above that Yale is anticipating a yield of 43.8%-58.3% on the incremental admits, in that it will admit 300-400 students in order to fill the additional 175 seats. So, unless Yale believes that the yield on the other 2,000 or so students it will admit is going to increase noticeably from last year’s level (and I’m not aware of any reason why that would happen), it’s expecting overall yield to go down.
In order to cushion the decline, I think it’s not unlikely that Yale will accept slightly more of the class from the SCEA round than in recent years. I’d note that last year’s SCEA admit total was somewhat higher than normal, so this could be part of a trend.
Does anyone know how we see if we got accepted/deferred/rejected? Do we receive and email or do we have to check somewhere online?
@salt123 I think you’ll see your decision on the portal they emailed out