How many acceptances do schools usually hand out, total?

[Septimusseverus]

I'm interviewing at an OOS public school. It interviews about 75/1100 OOS and about 25 people from that list end up matriculating, according to last year's data. Since not all accepted OOSers will attend, I figure they'll give out more than 25 acceptances through the course of the application cycle. Should I expect that they'll hand out 1.5 times the number of seats? 2 times?

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[jeghaber]

From perusing some other related threads from the past (http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/how-many-acceptances-do-schools-actually-hand-out.985915/), ~2 acceptances per seat seems to be more or less the norm, with a few outliers. If you're looking for school-specific information, you can always ask people in the school-specific subforum here, who are usually more than happy to help out.

 

[darkjedi]

Generally about 40-60% of students wind up matriculating, meaning schools accept anywhere between 1.5 to 2.5 times the number of seats they have. The schools with the highest % yield (matriculants/acceptees) actually tend to be state schools with heavy in-state bias, followed by the higher tier schools.