How many are accepted vs. how many matriculate?

[dtepper]

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I recently interviewed at UMDNJ - RWJ and am anxiously awaiting their response on Oct 15 or so. In the MSAR it only lists matriculants vs. interviewees. For UMDNJ - RWJ (In state) it listed around 420 interviews for around 140 matriculants... My question is, how many more are accepted vs. how many matriculate? I'm just looking for a rough estimate. Basically, if 140 matriculate... Do they send out 170 acceptances or 200 acceptances or 300 acceptances, etc.? Just curious because I have no idea. Thanks.

 

[LizzyM]

I recently interviewed at UMDNJ - RWJ and am anxiously awaiting their response on Oct 15 or so. In the MSAR it only lists matriculants vs. interviewees. For UMDNJ - RWJ (In state) it listed around 420 interviews for around 140 matriculants... My question is, how many more are accepted vs. how many matriculate? I'm just looking for a rough estimate. Basically, if 140 matriculate... Do they send out 170 acceptances or 200 acceptances or 300 acceptances, etc.? Just curious because I have no idea. Thanks.

There isn't an easy way to figure this out other than to ask when you interview, "so, what proportion of interviewees get offers, what proportion get waitlisted, and what proportion get denied?"

Even waitlisting doesn't tell you much.... one year a school may fill 1/3 of the class from the waitlist and another year it may be just 2 or 3 seats.

There are applicants with 3 or more offers of admission so you've got to figure that 2 (or more) of those schools are going to have to find someone else to fill the seat. I'd guess that there aer 2 or 3 offers for every seat to be filled.

 

[dtepper]

Thanks for the quick response LizzyM.

 

[chemolupusMD]

Dude, it depends on the school. I remember that at UM they said they interviewed (last year) about ~440 and accepted ~330 (dont remember exact numbers) and there were like 170 matriculants.