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Post by HC92 on Dec 19, 2023 9:40:40 GMT -5
With my second son going through the college application process, I am reading a lot about admissions rates and related info. Below are some recently released ED (binding) and REA/EA (non-binding) admissions rates from schools of potential interest. Will add HC info about ED1 when I find it.
ED/ED1 American 65% Bucknell 63% Fordham 60% (combined ED and EA) BU 34% BC 34% Emory 32% UVA 25% Williams 23% Dartmouth 17% Rice 15% Brown 14% Duke 13%
REA/EA Fairfield 37% Notre Dame 15% Georgetown 10% Harvard 9% Yale 9% MIT 5%
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Post by trimster on Dec 19, 2023 12:03:23 GMT -5
With my second son going through the college application process, I am reading a lot about admissions rates and related info. Below are some recently released ED (binding) and REA/EA (non-binding) admissions rates from schools of potential interest. Will add HC info about ED1 when I find it. ED/ED1 American 65% Bucknell 63% Fordham 60% (combined ED and EA) BU 34% BC 34% Emory 32% UVA 25% Williams 23% Dartmouth 17% Rice 15% Brown 14% Duke 13% REA/EA Fairfield 37% Notre Dame 15% Georgetown 10% Harvard 9% Yale 9% MIT 5% The Vermont Basketball Message Board had a couple of screen shots about 2023 acceptance rates broken down by conference under a thread called Conference Expansion or Realignment. A couple of figures that really surprised me at first glance were Ole Miss accepted 97 % of applicants and Marquette, that fine Jesuit institution in Milwaukee, accepted 87 %.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 22, 2023 13:29:56 GMT -5
That last number was a shock to see for any Jesuit institution.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 22, 2023 18:09:52 GMT -5
That last number was a shock to see for any Jesuit institution. Xavier 85%
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 22, 2023 18:11:50 GMT -5
Wow. Seeing a second Jebbie college so close to Marquette's number is not good news.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 22, 2023 20:10:40 GMT -5
Admission / Yield rates for the freshman class entering in the fall of 2022
Providence 52.8 / 19.7 UConn 54.5 / 18.3 DePaul 70.2 / 13.3 Seton Hall 75.1 / 7.8 Creighton 75.7 / 17.0 Butler 82.1 / 10.9 Xavier 84.5 / 8.5 St. John's 84.7 / 13.9 Marquette 87.2 / 14.3
So much for being in the entertainment business.
Others Univ. of Virginia 18.7 / 42.3 JMU 78.6 / 20.2 Syracuse 51.8 / 19.1 Cornell 7.5 / 67.6 (Highest acceptance rate in the Ivies.) Yield percentage is better than several Ivies. BC 16.7 / 34.6
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 22, 2023 22:41:41 GMT -5
How about George Mason? With the visit to the Final Four GMU’s acceptance rate, yield, alumni donations, endowment must all have improved dramatically, right? Have those improvements endured?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 23, 2023 15:24:08 GMT -5
How about George Mason? With the visit to the Final Four GMU’s acceptance rate, yield, alumni donations, endowment must all have improved dramatically, right? Have those improvements endured? George Mason University, for the class entering in the fall of 2022 Applicants: 20,000 Admitted: 18,000 Enrolled: 2,100 Endowment value June 2023: $179 million. Endowment value June 2007: difficult to determine precisely, but appears to be around $97 million.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 23, 2023 15:42:25 GMT -5
So it appears that the basketball team’s success did not really do a lot to permanently change the position of GMU along the spectrum of colleges. Interesting
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 24, 2023 5:21:02 GMT -5
How important are endowments to state universities?
My gut tells me that while there may be exceptions, most very large and probably even more small donors aren’t giving a lot of money to a place that is funded by taxpayers whereas in private colleges and universities, donations of any size help to grow the school; stabilize the finances; help keep student expenses lower; enhance funding for athletics; etc.
I am sure Phreek or other experts can educate me and others on this subject.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 24, 2023 9:12:43 GMT -5
Some state schools have massive endowments- Texas and Texas A& M being examples
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 24, 2023 9:20:58 GMT -5
Yup, and why I purposely wrote: "My gut tells me that while there may be exceptions," I knew of the Texas schools and strongly suspect Ohio State, excuse me, "THE Ohio State University" as well as likely Michigan, the California state schools are exceptions. Smaller states I would have stronger doubts.
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Post by purple1 on Dec 24, 2023 9:54:23 GMT -5
Texas A&M with their vast number of oil leases funds the endowment & NIL program. Texas also has many oil leases from the property owned by the university. Natural resources controlled by a number of state and private schools contribute immensely to their endowments. Only if Mount St. James had untapped gas reserves .....
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 24, 2023 12:18:35 GMT -5
Texas A&M with their vast number of oil leases funds the endowment & NIL program. Texas also has many oil leases from the property owned by the university. Natural resources controlled by a number of state and private schools contribute immensely to their endowments. Only if Mount St. James had untapped gas reserves ..... Blame Benedict Fenwick. He wanted to establish Holy Cross in northern Maine, at the newly established community of Benedicta. maps.app.goo.gl/crXmC86pY41QE9cd9^^^ Downtown current-day Benedicta. The sign says, 'To work is to pray'. maps.app.goo.gl/N9dy24bxeWhpYPcx6^^^ the Catholic church, St. Benedict, a hop and a skip from downtown. maps.app.goo.gl/cj9dNi5jrUyGWnhe7^^^ the local watering hole. From the motif, I think the Holy Cross mascot would have been a bear. Very close to I-95 and Benedicta has its own interchange! maps.app.goo.gl/1NzCi7thqQ2oCMPF7^^^ The border, not too far from Benedicta. Irish Settlement is the first hamlet in New Brunswick you come to after crossing the border. Now there's lithium buried beneath the hills and mountains of northern Maine. .Some very sizeable deposits too. Don't know whether they've prospected for such in or near Benedicta. But as the old saying goes, 'there's gold in them thar hills.'
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 24, 2023 13:17:49 GMT -5
So it appears that the basketball team’s success did not really do a lot to permanently change the position of GMU along the spectrum of colleges. Interesting Success alone may not change much. How the school builds on and publicizes it is equally important (if not moreso).
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Post by HC92 on Dec 24, 2023 19:17:31 GMT -5
So it appears that the basketball team’s success did not really do a lot to permanently change the position of GMU along the spectrum of colleges. Interesting It was a one time flash in the pan as an 11 seed. They were a national story for about 10 days. Sustained success more likely to change fortunes.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 25, 2023 7:58:22 GMT -5
So it appears that the basketball team’s success did not really do a lot to permanently change the position of GMU along the spectrum of colleges. Interesting It was a one time flash in the pan as an 11 seed. They were a national story for about 10 days. Sustained success more likely to change fortunes. Anecdotally speaking, I remember hearing about NY area kids actually applying to GMU in the years following that run. And I hadn't before that. Mightve been a brief bump in out of state applicants. But highly doubt an increase in quality of applicants.
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