purpleshirt wrote:
Great post with the #s!
I agree - I think your yield is too high. I would say it's closer to 60%. R1: 200 / 325 = 61% yield
Thus, with 200 each round, that's a class of 400. One small nuance, and I don't know how this affects admissions, but 400 includes LGO and Sloan Fellows. For 2013, the FT MBA is actually around 360.
I certainly agree one of the historical figures will have to "break" for admissions to be equal between this years R1 & R2. Even their numbers don't seem to make sense.
800 total interviews x 60% interview-to-offer rate x 60% yield = only 288 enrollment.
At an enrollment of 400, using their figures, you'd need a yield of 83% to get to 400. However, a 75% yield gets us to your 360 number. Perhaps they're doing some rounding...such as 820 invites and a 63% (or many other combinations) also get to a class of 360 at 70% yield. But, using a 60% yield, we can't get to a class of 360 without upping their 60% offer rate to 70% and bumping the interviews to 850.