Accept more students than they have seats??

[OnMyWayThere]

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Does anybody know if schools accept more students than they have seats? I have heard a myth that they typically accept twice as many students because about 1/2 of acceptances are turned down at the end. I find it hard to believe though because isn't that waitlisters are there for? Anyone know how that all works?

 

[otter1812]

I've heard that a school accepts around a hundred extra students over the number of seats they have available.

 

[docbill]

It is really not that complicated.

Say that there are 5 school / each has 100 seats to fill.= total of 500 places

Say that there are 1000 applicants applying to 5 different schools.

1 applicant will be accepted to more then one school. School x and y... but decided to go to his or her 1st choice... school z. So even though this person was accepted to x and y s/he will go to z... to make sure they cover their Asses.. school x and y will have to accept as many as possible to fill their seats. So they may end up accepting 200 people to finally fill 100 seats (100 will decide to go somewhere else).

Now if you are asking if they will accept 150 people even before finding out who will stay or not.. possibly.. depending on pas stats. Sometimes it is predicatable.

Okay I am confused now.. bye

 

[dr.z]

I beleive most schools do. They usually have good statistical idea of what percentage of students actually enroll after acceptance. So they tend to accept more than they have seat for. This I believe is common with many schools including undergrad and other graduate programs.

 

[Doctor Peloncito]

Another factor to take into account is that most schools accept on a rolling basis. The extreme example is TUCOM. If you interview there, you find out in a week or two whether you've been accepted. Then, within 2 weeks of the date of your letter you have to submit a deposit for 2 grand. If you fail to do this, your acceptance is pulled. So if a school ends up offering spots for twice as many seats as they actually have, it just means that when the cards fall at the end of the year the people who accepted their invitation have seats and the ones who didn't, are probably at another school. Clear as mud huh!

 

[DrB]

All this fuzzy logic sounds like the same policy SouthWest Airlines uses to fill its seats. I was wondering if we could end up being bumped because their are too many acceptances for the available seats???? If this is the case then we don't really know if we will get into the school until the first day of class????

Maybe the DO schools will offer a deal like Southwest air... if we get bumped they will place us on a different flight and pay the fair??? 😀

 

[uclabruin2003]

i know that most schools accept about twice as many students than are in their class. this even applies to the great MD schools like harvard, ucla, etc. its because so many people actually do get multiple acceptances. makes sense to me.

 

[cooldreams]

All this fuzzy logic sounds like the same policy SouthWest Airlines uses to fill its seats. I was wondering if we could end up being bumped because their are too many acceptances for the available seats???? If this is the case then we don't really know if we will get into the school until the first day of class????

Maybe the DO schools will offer a deal like Southwest air... if we get bumped they will place us on a different flight and pay the fair??? 😀

hmmm... not so far fetched i would imagine.