{"id":3435,"date":"2018-09-10T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2018-09-11T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:28:30","slug":"stop-over-admitting-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/10\/stop-over-admitting-students\/","title":{"rendered":"STOP OVER-ADMITTING STUDENTS!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3402\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3402\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-15-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"STOP OVER-ADMITTING STUDENTS!!\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-15-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-15-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-15.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STOP OVER-ADMITTING STUDENTS!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is the response from Admissions:\u00a0\u00a0Enrollment management is a complex endeavor.\u00a0 BC&#8217;s predictive enrollment models are highly effective in using historical yield patterns to forecast future enrollments.\u00a0 As effective as these models typically are, historical data do not always perfectly forecast future decisions that admitted students will make. For example, the admission offers extended to the sophomore Class 2021 resulted in a larger number of students accepting our invitations than our models predicted.\u00a0 Enrollment Management quickly accounted for this change by updating the enrollment models for the Class of 2022 &#8211; and then enrolled the current freshman class almost exactly as the models forecast. What can we say?\u00a0 BC is a popular destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the response from Admissions:\u00a0\u00a0Enrollment management is a complex endeavor.\u00a0 BC&#8217;s predictive enrollment models are highly effective in using historical yield patterns to forecast future enrollments.\u00a0 As effective as these models typically are, historical data do not always perfectly forecast future decisions that admitted students will make. For example, the admission offers extended to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/10\/stop-over-admitting-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STOP OVER-ADMITTING STUDENTS!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}