The phrase "admit rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of admissions, particularly in educational institutions, to refer to the percentage of applicants who are accepted.
Example: "The university's admit rate has decreased over the past few years, making it more competitive for prospective students."
Alternatives: "acceptance rate" or "admission rate".
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The Ivy League reported an admit rate that dipped to 5.79 percent at Harvard this year.
There are no surveys on admit rates for students coming from post-bac programs, but consider: At N.Y.U., of 698 post-bacs who applied for the class entering in 2011, 24 were accepted — a 3.4 percent admit rate.
Its student newspaper reported that the college accepted just over 10 percent of its approximately 22,400 applicants this year, making it less selective than the 9.43 percent admit rate it reported last year.
By defining your top college sample based on admit rate, which conveys how few students are admitted and may be discouraging to low-income students, and on test scores, which are demonstrated to be correlated with income, you manage to leave out a college like Smith that consistently surpasses all of the institutions on your list in the share of low-income students.
Assuming a school doesn't admit more students, more applicants means a lower admit rate, resulting in higher rankings.
We encourage students to look beyond admit rates when considering colleges.
This could not be further from the truth, even at Ivy League institutions where admit rates dip into the single digits and application numbers rise exponentially every year.
Bruce Poch, a former dean of admissions at Pomona College in California, was reported recently by the New York Times as saying, "As kids see that the admit rates are brutal and dropping, they send more applications, which forces the colleges to lower their admit rates, which spurs the kids next year to send even more applications".
The overall admit rates averaged over the period 2003-2012 athehe various colleges should have been used.
Three moms quit their jobs, five quit the tennis league, and four of them spent New Year's Eve on CollegeImpossible.com analyzing conflicting reports of Ivy League admit rates.
