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Can you name the US universities with the highest enrollment rate amongst accepted applicants?
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mathias1979
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US News and World Report Rankings
Popularity is determined by yield, which is defined by the source as the percentage of applicants accepted by a university who actually enroll in that institution in the fall.
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71%
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66%
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US News Ranking
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54%
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52%
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51%
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Most Popular Universities (US) Quiz
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mathias1979
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Nov 10th, 2009 at 16:04 GMT
2 points
Yield is defined by the source as the percentage of applicants accepted by a university who enroll in that institution in the fall. So a Yield of 90% would mean that 90% of the people accepted wound up enrolling in school at that university.
Anonymous42
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 05:12 GMT
5 points
Interesting quiz. Perhaps you could accept a few more alternate answers, such as UVA for U of Virginia and Chapel Hill for UNC.
acadec
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 06:16 GMT
17 points
good quiz, but "popular" probably isn't the best word for it. BYU, for example, is very popular among the people who apply there, but much less popular among the general population.
mathias1979
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 11:35 GMT
3 points
@acadec, I generally agree, but I went with the source's wording. But yeah, if it were truely popularity, it would somehow take into account the total number of applications received by each university. I couldn't find a source with that stat, all I could find is that UCLA seems to lay claim to receiving the most applications of any university.
johnlk
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 13:26 GMT
2 points
Isn't this research universities only?
Goober
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 13:33 GMT
2 points
Good quiz. And as long as people read your explanation before taking the quiz, they won't be tripped up by the word "popular." If they don't read it, then they'll probably start typing in the largest universities they can think of, which will only get them so far.
ileggin
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 13:42 GMT
11 points
BYU makes sense at #2. The key is universities that inspire deep loyalty, whether geographic, religious, or otherwise. I'm surprised Notre Dame isn't higher.
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celtic_fc
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 14:00 GMT
-14 points
sorry to those who go to ranking #50....but i have never in my life heard of this college (and i've sporcled a lot haha)
RS89
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 15:50 GMT
7 points
Yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish university, so it's not that surprising if people haven't heard of it.
redsxfenway
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 16:15 GMT
34 points
I'm very surprised the military academies aren't on here.
JayHankEdLyonJr
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 16:38 GMT
4 points
UVA should definitely count for Virginia, especially if UNC counts for North Carolina. Also, perhaps add that UT is the University of Texas at Austin, there are a bundle of University of Texases. Great quiz, though, very interesting results.
shawnoc
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT
17 points
@redsoxfenway: US News doesn't count the academies in their list of "National Universities". Their counted among "Liberal Arts Colleges". Their enrollment rate would put them #1 and #2 on this list, though.
fo_sho_yo:
Nov 11th, 2009 at 16:58 GMT
3 points
That explanation makes sense, the academies were the first ones I chose
mathias1979
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 18:43 GMT
3 points
Yeah, I meant to clarify that this was national universities. UVA and UT accepted now. I see no need to accept Chapel Hill. I lived in Raleigh for a couple years...and I've heard it referred to as UNC Chapel Hill, and I've heard Chapel Hill referred to when talking about the town...but never heard the university being just called Chapel Hill.
BeatNavy
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Nov 11th, 2009 at 23:34 GMT
3 points
The service academies all have yields over 80%
Foxen
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 00:54 GMT
4 points
Great quiz! I like that the list is a mix of "well if I got in, of course I'd go" prestige, religious schools, schools with high sports affiliations, and (maybe) places that would be the only place you'd apply. And it's not like their all just big schools or prestigious schools, either. It really cuts across categories that you'd usually think of. Good job!
sporcl_er
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 16:39 GMT
0 points
most other sporcle quizzes have A&M as Texas A & M, so maybe consider spacing it out, I didn't get it because of that.
indyjeff
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 15:19 GMT
2 points
I've never quite understood why, when spacing and punctuation are not supposed to affect any answers on Sporcle, Texas A&M never seems to work the first way I type it. Apparently the ampersand (&) is regarded differently than other punctuation marks by the Sporcle gods?
mathias1979
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 16:44 GMT
1 point
@indyjeff, not sure either. but whatever the case, it has been fixed to accept 'Texas A & M' in addition to 'Texas A&M'.
elnok
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 16:44 GMT
3 points
@mathias: I went to Chapel Hill :) I would normally say "UNC" or "Carolina," but if I'm talking to people in the South (especially in South Carolina, where they seem to think their school also can be called "Carolina), I would have no issues if the school was referred to by the name of the town. (Still, don't know if I would ever consider entering Chapel Hill as a Sporcle answer...)
mimsylou
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Dec 5th, 2009 at 22:09 GMT
1 point
UK should be accepted for University of Kentucky and I agree with BeatNavy that the service academies have high yields.
Esme
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Dec 24th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT
11 points
"Ohio" shouldn't bring up "Ohio State." Two completely separate universities.
Gramarye:
Feb 13th, 2010 at 21:06 GMT
1 point
I dislike how yield is typically a factor in ranking colleges, as it tends to make universities reject "overqualfied" candidates in order to protect their yield, rather than to get the best student possible.
gowhere
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Mar 12th, 2010 at 16:28 GMT
1 point
I find the vairety on this quiz interesting. Some universities are on the list solely because of their academic standing, others, because of their religious affiliation, some because of their combination of academic standing/value (some of the state schools), and some probably just on geographic location/cost.
dlte
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Sep 4th, 2010 at 07:53 GMT
0 points
@Esme: but Ohio isn't an answer on this quiz, it also accepts "OSU" because Oklahoma State, Oregon State, etc. aren't on the quiz.
MoneyGrip
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Sep 16th, 2010 at 10:29 GMT
1 point
The common denominators are academic prestige, good football/basketball/athletic programs, good weather/location, and school in states where there there is only one or two big schools. North Carolina State and Yeshiva are the most surprising. I get the latter but people wanna go to NC State that bad?
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branbran
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:09 GMT
2 points
yisheva university priceless
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jonesjeffum
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:14 GMT
-31 points
quiz title should be changed to US Universities with the highest enrollment rate NOT most popular
jenb
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:15 GMT
12 points
interesting mix... ivy league, southern, + 3 religious schools.
deugea
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:16 GMT
71 points
Yeah, it's like smart schools, football schools, and Mormons.
NS7
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:22 GMT
46 points
expected Army or Navy.
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Pogues
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:42 GMT
-6 points
Would have done better had I remembered North Carolina was a state in the Union. Oops!
Rayavi
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:58 GMT
13 points
Didn't expect to see Yeshiva here. L'chaim!
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eleriero
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 05:18 GMT
-46 points
.....when are people going to accept "Chapel Hill" for an answer? It's faster to type....
radioactive
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 05:26 GMT
37 points
or you could type UNC, which is even faster.
Bobman1
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 05:34 GMT
7 points
Very surprised the service academies are not here. The year I went to Navy they accepted one out of 15 or so and our class was still 1,200+. I bet super small and largely free schools are not included in this survey, like Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (100 students) and Cooper Union (under 400). (When I left Navy and went to Webb, the acceptance rate was 1/18--and it's FREE). Dollars to donuts their accepted student enrollment rates are over 70%. There are surely others like that I am not aware of. Also surprised Duke is not here. I have a friend who went to Harvard undergrad and Duke grad and she said that by FAR everyone she knows identifies themselves as a Duke person. She was blue blue blue. The giant public Univs I would think accept a huge number of people. Then again, when you have to fill 10,000 seats for entering class.... I'd also expect top engineering schools (Harvey Mudd? Cal Tech?) to be here. Lots of schools have good Eng programs, but if an Eng degree is your sole focus and you get in, it's hard to say no. Oh well, this was still fun.
Bobman1
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 05:43 GMT
6 points
Okay, checked the source and a ton of my guesses were in the next tier--Stevens Tech, NJIT, Duke, Cal tech, UW, Wisconsiin, Berkeley, Michigan, NYU, Vandy, W&M. And the "Most Popular" phrase was taken from the source article and may not reflect the quiz author's views.
Wolfie0890
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 06:44 GMT
26 points
I wonder what percent of students that didn't enroll at (x) Ivy League School choose another Ivy League school instead.
vegemighty
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 08:35 GMT
10 points
@Bobman - I tried them as well. I remember back when I was getting turned down by the Naval Academy reading that their yield was somewhere in the neighborhood of 99%, and usually above that. But you'll notice that all of the answers save MIT and Dartmouth include the word "University". All of these (including those two) are proper universities that grant PhDs. Schools like Harvey Mudd and Navy that are strictly Bacherlor's Degree institutions are left out.
najacob
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Oct 27th, 2011 at 12:13 GMT
3 points
Most of my guesses were football teams. That's why I missed MIT.
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