Applicants, Acceptance Rate, Yield Trends at Wesleyan

At Kentucky Wesleyan College, the average acceptance rate over the past 11 years is 63.37%, and 2024's acceptance rate is 67.00%.

The average yield (enrollment rate) over the period is 24.52%, and the 2024 yield is 17.98%.

The number of Wesleyan applicants increased by 40.10% (575 applicants) compared to the previous year.

Acceptance Rate Changes

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 63.37%, and this year's acceptance rate is 67.00% at Kentucky Wesleyan College. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 60.37% and women students' rate is 67.32%.

The following table and chart illustrate the acceptance rates changes at Kentucky Wesleyan College over the past 11 years (2013-2024).

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Year	Total	Men	Women
	2013-14	67.10%	64.90%	69.52%
2014-15	60.72% -6.38%	55.59% -9.30%	67.01% -2.51%
2015-16	64.21% 3.49%	62.90% 7.31%	65.34% -1.67%
2016-17	57.22% -7.00%	54.91% -7.99%	59.71% -5.63%
2017-18	58.46% 1.24%	55.29% 0.39%	61.61% 1.89%
2018-19	64.16% 5.70%	61.13% 5.84%	66.99% 5.38%
2019-20	62.43% -1.72%	58.00% -3.13%	67.47% 0.48%
2020-21	60.19% -2.24%	56.11% -1.89%	67.51% 0.04%
2021-22	67.01% 6.82%	64.04% 7.92%	74.05% 6.54%
2022-23	68.55% 1.54%	67.20% 3.16%	70.33% -3.72%
2023-24	67.00% -1.55%	63.98% -3.21%	71.03% 0.70%
Average	63.37%	60.37%	67.32%

Admission Yield (Enrollment Rate) Changes

The average admission yield of the last 11 years is 24.52% where the current academic year yield is 17.98%.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in yield at Kentucky Wesleyan College from 2013 to 2024.

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	24.15%	25.73%	22.52%
2014-15	33.94% 9.79%	38.74% 13.01%	29.05% 6.53%
2015-16	26.27% -7.67%	32.05% -6.69%	21.49% -7.57%
2016-17	29.46% 3.19%	31.52% -0.54%	27.41% 5.92%
2017-18	24.06% -5.40%	27.66% -3.86%	20.85% -6.56%
2018-19	24.15% 0.09%	29.26% 1.60%	19.78% -1.07%
2019-20	23.18% -0.97%	23.75% -5.51%	22.62% 2.83%
2020-21	22.14% -1.04%	20.06% -3.69%	25.23% 2.62%
2021-22	22.04% -0.10%	22.01% 1.94%	23.08% -2.16%
2022-23	22.38% 0.34%	21.23% -0.77%	24.01% 0.93%
2023-24	17.98% -4.40%	17.96% -3.27%	17.97% -6.04%
Average	24.52%	26.36%	23.09%

Applicants, Admitted, and Enrolled Headcount Changes

Over the past 10 years, The average number of applicants is 1,415, the average number of admitted is 898, and the average number of first-year enrolled students is 213.

The number of Wesleyan applicants increased by 40.10% (575 applicants) compared to the previous year.

The following table and chart show the changes of applicants, admitted, and enrolled headcount at Kentucky Wesleyan College from 2013 to 2024.

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Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2013-14	1,006	675	163
2014-15	1,087 8.05%	660 -2.22%	224 37.42%
2015-16	1,073 -1.29%	689 4.39%	181 -19.20%
2016-17	1,157 7.83%	662 -3.92%	195 7.73%
2017-18	1,365 17.98%	798 20.54%	192 -1.54%
2018-19	1,607 17.73%	1,031 29.20%	249 29.69%
2019-20	1,693 5.35%	1,057 2.52%	245 -1.61%
2020-21	1,771 4.61%	1,066 0.85%	236 -3.67%
2021-22	1,361 -23.15%	912 -14.45%	201 -14.83%
2022-23	1,434 5.36%	983 7.79%	220 9.45%
2023-24	2,009 40.10%	1,346 36.93%	242 10.00%
Average	1,415	898	213

Compare Acceptance Rate Change to Similar Colleges

The following table compares acceptance rate changes from last year between Kentucky Wesleyan College and similar schools.