By achieving a yield rate of 27 percent this year, Bucknell surpassed its 26 percent goal in the strategic plan.
Yield is defined as the percentage of students who accept the university s offer of admission.
Besides ensuring access to students, we hoped to strengthen the quality of the student body. We experienced extraordinary success in this area in just one year. Although we extended 300 fewer offers of admission this past spring than the previous year, the number of students who accepted Bucknell's offer increased dramatically. This resulted in a class size of about 960 first-year students this fall, significantly higher than our target. With the Class of 2002, we made encouraging progress toward our admission goals.