Institutional Common Data Sets inform our products with data found nowhere else--Early Decision, waitlist, transfer admissions, and much more are worth the lift.

by Brad Pochard Fall 2023 Incoming Classes by Round at Selected Colleges As many of our customers know, my stewardship of Moore College Data follows 22 years on the enrollment side of the admissions desk.  Until 2023, I served as Associate Vice President of Enrollment and Dean of Admission at Furman University.  Naturally, a number of friends and colleagues expressed surprise when I moved to a new and unique spot in the world of higher ed. Why did I decide to work in data ana

College waitlists are sure to play an enormous role shaping the college Classes of 2028. Looking for waitlist data? Here's the latest!

Visualized below are all the applications filed at 81 colleges for Fall 2021. On the left are all the binding applications (Early Decision and its various iterations), and on the right are the non-binding apps--Early Action, Early Action 1, Early Action 2, Priority, Rolling, and undoubtedly other jargon with which I am not familiar. Behold the sheer volume of non-binding applications. For every applicant who enrolled, 19.5 applications were submitted. In contrast, ED's r

by Leigh Moore, college advisor and proud Class of 2021 mom Note : This is a lengthy post, despite my best efforts at an economy of words. I hope it provides some measure of understanding for those families who are navigating uncharted waters. The enrollment management principle For years, people have talked about admissions as a game. It’s not; unfortunately, it’s a business which coincides with the pursuit of dreams, with kids who take personally dynamics beyond their contr

Admit rates are highlighted in yellow on this spreadsheet, but they don’t demonstrate the significance of a binding early decision application as well as other metrics can. In particular, look at the last couple of columns on the right. Even at highly selective colleges, most Regular Decision admits decline enrollment offers. At up to $75K per year per student, the stakes are very high for admissions offices when it comes to guessing a student’s intentions. ​ The ultimate way

As I labor over my efforts to articulate why a proactive approach to the college search is important both practically and developmentally, I’ll let some numbers speak for themselves. Whether we like it or not, Early Decision is incredibly important to the student who prioritizes admissibility to a particular institution. The published numbers, in my opinion, do not tell the whole story. The admit rates for binding early applicants are sometimes not much higher than those for