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E-PrinceThe yield for the Class of 2014 stood at 56.9 percent as of Wednesday, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an e-mail. The University has accepted 137 of the 1,415 students it placed on the waitlist, yielding ...(back to the article)
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Can we assume there will be an indeterminate number of additional waitlist admits due to "summer melt?
What is the target class size?
Does the number of anticipated matriculants include - or exclude - prospective "bridge year" people, and do these people nevertheless count as admits?
So why is our yield falling? We are still ranked at the top of those reports like USNews, even though we decry them. We no longer require loans for undergrads. We supposedly have enlarged the student body so we can attract more of the top students who were supposedly being displaced by athletes, legacies, under represented groups, etc.
What's the reason admittees are turning their backs on Princeton and going elsewhere?
Time for some serious introspection in West College! Quick, set up a Study Commision, Nancy.
Somebody's got some 'splainin' to do.
Does anyone know the statistics on Wait List admissions in the past decade? Seems to me that until very recently, very few students made it off the Wait List and into the ranks of the Chosen. It seemed that virtually every alum child applicant was placed on the Wait List, but never offered admission.
Now we learn that during the JR years, well over 1000 applicants are Wait Listed, and about 100 or so then receive the "Come On Down" letter, after the initial yield falls below predictions.
Anyone got the numbers by year? # on WL; # accepted from WL; Original Yield; Final Yield?
The yield rate is falling, primarily, because Princeton is seeking stronger students than it use to in the "Hargadon era", and is not relying on the early admissions crutch to artificially boost the yield rate, like Yale and Stanford do.
The result is that Princeton has as strong a class as it has ever had.
so does this mean there's little to no hope for those still on the waitlist? its pretty hard for those left hanging till June 30th...
“When the admit rate goes down, the yield is often affected,” Rapelye explained. “We are really happy to be admitting these students off the waitlist.”
How does this make sense? So is she saying if the admit rate goes up then the yield should go up too?
“When the admit rate goes down, the yield is often affected,” Rapelye explained. “We are really happy to be admitting these students off the waitlist.”
Nonesense.
I know plenty of students who told their prefrosh about the toughness of school resulting from the grade deflation policy. I bet a lot of kids who heard these concerns chose other top-tier schools over princeton.
Rapelye should have tried for a little more believable rationalization. As long as the stats for the freshman class do not slip, I think Princeton can simply say that they are attracting stronger admits than ever, and that unlike Stanford and Yale they are not giving an edge to early appklicants in order to goose the yield rate.
It's the result of the grade deflation policy. The next will be the ranking of US News and World Report go down.
Malkiel is running this school into the ground...
I wish I had a ton of money so I could make a massive donation that was contingent on a huge upheaval in the administration.