Most Popular Colleges - US News Report

Posted by admin on February 10th, 2009

So which colleges do students really want to go to? One way to find out is to look at a school’s yield, the percentage of applicants accepted by a university who end up enrolling at that institution in the fall. The figures in this table are from the fall 2007 entering class and show the admit yield and overall acceptance rate. If a school has a high yield (a large proportion of those admitted enroll), it means that the school is most likely very popular with a top reputation and that the students are highly motivated to go there. A very low yield means that the school could be a “safety” or second choice for many of those who apply. Colleges use yield as a key factor in determining how many students they need to admit each year.

	U.S. News Rank	Acceptance Rate	Yield
Harvard University (MA)	1	9%	79%
Brigham Young University–Provo (UT)	113	74%	77%
University of Nebraska–Lincoln	89	62%	71%
Stanford University (CA)	4	10%	70%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4	12%	69%
Yale University (CT)	3	10%	69%
Princeton University (NJ)	2	10%	68%
University of Pennsylvania	6	16%	66%
Yeshiva University (NY)	50	69%	65%
University of Florida	49	42%	63%
Columbia University (NY)	8	11%	59%
Brown University (RI)	16	14%	56%
Texas A&M University–College Station	64	76%	56%
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill	30	35%	56%
University of Notre Dame (IN)	18	24%	56%
Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge	130	73%	55%
University of Texas–Austin	47	51%	54%
Dartmouth College (NH)	11	15%	52%
University of Virginia	23	35%	52%
University of Georgia	58	54%	51%
Kansas State University	130	95%	50%
University of Alabama	83	64%	50%
University of Oklahoma	108	89%	50%
North Carolina State University–Raleigh	83	60%	49%
Ohio State University–Columbus	56	59%	49%
University of Missouri–Columbia	96	86%	48%
University of Tennessee	108	71%	48%
Cornell University (NY)	14	21%	47%
Georgetown University (DC)	23	21%	47%
University of Kentucky	116	77%	47%

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