Class of 2020 Yield Rates

Colleges Report Matriculation for the Class of 2020 This college admissions season saw record-low admission rates, but what colleges are really concerned about is yield – the percentage of admitted students who enroll. Yield rates for the class of 2020 are starting to emerge – giving prospective students a better picture of the most recent freshman class.Why does yield matter? There’s a lot that goes into building a class. Everything that colleges do throughout the year all leads up to that May 1 enrollment deadline. Yield is important because it sets the tone for the next academic year and the next admissions season. Everything, from class size to program funding and more, factors in yield. Increasingly, colleges are finding it harder and harder these days to predict yield, because students are applying to more colleges than ever before. Since yield is becoming to hard to predict, colleges are using strategies like early application rounds and demonstrated interest to increase and better gauge yield for the next class. This is important information for students just starting the college admission process, as it helps them understand what colleges are looking for and how they can use that to their advantage. Here are some of the available yield rates for the class of 2020 and yield rates for the class of 2019 for comparison. School Class of 2020 Yield Class of 2019 Yield Brown University TBA 56% Columbia University TBA 63% Cornell University TBA 51% Dartmouth College 53.1% 50.3% Georgetown University 48% 47.6% Harvard University 80% 81% MIT 74% 73% Princeton University 68.5% 67.7% Stanford University TBA 81.1% University of Chicago 66% 61% University of Pennsylvania 68-69% 66% Yale University TBA 69.5% We will update this list as more information becomes available so be sure to check back!