i've always wondered why

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Why are there more offered acceptances than people enrolled?

What happens to the other people?

Just curious.

 

[brooklynblunder]

damn, just think about it, kid


a student can only enroll to one med school. same student gets accepted at multiple med schools.

 

[mmmcdowe]

damn, just think about it, kid


a student can only enroll to one med school. same student gets accepted at multiple med schools.

quoted for obvious truth. Acceptances and matriculations are counted differently. You can matriculate at one place but be accepted at many.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

damn, just think about it, kid


a student can only enroll to one med school. same student gets accepted at multiple med schools.

double quoted for doubly obvious truth

 

[Poliscidoc]

Why are there more offered acceptances than people enrolled?

What happens to the other people?

Just curious.

OK you accept 151 people, one guy has an acceptance from Harvard, so he leaves and goes to Harvard...

151 (accepted students)-1 (guy that is going to Harvard= 150 students


again

151 accepted
150 students after the one guy leaves

one more time

151 oranges-1 orange that is going to Harvard=150 oranges that didn't make it to Harvard.

 

[BlueElmo]

double quoted for doubly obvious truth

triple quoted for triply obvious truth.

 

[makeshift123]

I think maybe he meant what if they accept 160 for a class of 140 and all 160 matriculate? who knows.

 

[Naijaba]

damn, just think about it, kid


a student can only enroll to one med school. same student gets accepted at multiple med schools.

Yep, also some defer for scholarships and service projects (Fullbright, Rhodes, Peace Corps, TFA, etc.). Here's some fun data from US News:

School: Accepted/Enrolled - Reciprocal Percentage
Harvard: 208/165 - 79%
UPenn: 222/154 - 69%
Columbia: 291/153 - 52%
Duke: 218/100 - 46%
UWash: 267/216 - 81%
WashU: 346/122 - 35%
JHU: 268/118 - 44%
UCSF: 257/152 - 59%
Yale: 245/100 - 41%
Stanford: 172/86 - 50%

I think what's really interesting is the LACK of multiple acceptances. I mean think about it: Almost every school listed above [except WashU] has a >40% matriculant rate for accepted students. I'd think that if it were the same 230 or so students being accepted everywhere that each school would have to accept many more than they'd matriculate. The data above indicates that schools can deduce whether a student will actually attend their school within a small margin of error.

 

[Poliscidoc]

Yep, also some defer for scholarships and service projects (Fullbright, Rhodes, Peace Corps, TFA, etc.). Here's some fun data from US News:

School: Accepted/Enrolled - Reciprocal Percentage
Harvard: 208/165 - 79%
UPenn: 222/154 - 69%
Columbia: 291/153 - 52%
Duke: 218/100 - 46%
UWash: 267/216 - 81%
WashU: 346/122 - 35%
JHU: 268/118 - 44%
UCSF: 257/152 - 59%
Yale: 245/100 - 41%
Stanford: 172/86 - 50%

I think what's really interesting is the LACK of multiple acceptances. I mean think about it: Almost every school listed above [except WashU] has a >40% matriculant rate for accepted students. I'd think that if it were the same 230 or so students being accepted everywhere that each school would have to accept many more than they'd matriculate. The data above indicates that schools can deduce whether a student will actually attend their school within a 40% margin of error.

Damn what about a Waitlist..... What the hell is the damn thing for if they don't use it..

 

[brooklynblunder]

i would break it down to demographics and crap. first of all lets take University of Washington cuz its a state school. and then, well i'm just gonna stop there cuz its gonna get really lame talking about this

 

[brooklynblunder]

Damn what about a Waitlist..... What the hell is the damn thing for if they don't use it..

they do use it. it lets them pull the class more slowly