Colleges that Consider Demonstrated Interest

The majority of colleges in the United States are struggling to meet their enrollment goals each year.

Therefore, it is highly beneficial for institutions to be able make the most educated guess possible regarding how many admitted applicants will actually enroll in their freshman class—the number of students who enroll divided by the number who were accepted equals a college’s yield rate—a metric that is of great concern to admissions offices. The measure that admissions officers use to hone in on candidates who are likely to enroll is something called demonstrated interest. Ways for applicants to demonstrate interest include: physically visiting campus, emailing an admission officer, attending an admissions event in your area, connecting with the university on social media, and writing an exceptionally detailed “Why this College?” essay. College Transitions is happy to provide a list of 300+ schools and the level of importance assigned to this increasingly-important admissions factor.

*Data collected from Common Data Set (CDS) forms.

Table updated October 2023

unitID	Institution	Demonstrated Interest	TAG
138600	Agnes Scott College	Considered
210669	Allegheny College	Important
131159	American University	Very Important	AU
164465	Amherst College	Not Considered
197869	Appalachian State University	Important	App State
104151	Arizona State University	Not Considered	ASU
100858	Auburn University	Not Considered
164580	Babson College	Considered
189088	Bard College	Considered
189097	Barnard College	Considered
160977	Bates College	Important
223232	Baylor University	Considered
238333	Beloit College	Considered
230816	Bennington College	Not Considered
164739	Bentley University	Important
156295	Berea College	Considered
164748	Berklee College of Music	Considered
196079	Binghamton University	Not Considered
142115	Boise State University	Not Considered
164924	Boston College	Not Considered	BC
164988	Boston University	Considered	BU
161004	Bowdoin College	Considered
165015	Brandeis University	Considered
230038	Brigham Young University-Provo	Very Important	BYU
217156	Brown University	Not Considered
217165	Bryant University	Considered
211273	Bryn Mawr College	Not Considered
211291	Bucknell University	Considered
150163	Butler University	Considered
110404	California Institute of Technology	Not Considered	Caltech
111081	California Institute of the Arts	Considered
110422	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	Not Considered	Cal Poly
110529	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	Not Considered
110556	California State University-Fresno	Not Considered
110565	California State University-Fullerton	Not Considered
110583	California State University-Long Beach	Not Considered
110592	California State University-Los Angeles	Not Considered
173258	Carleton College	Not Considered
211440	Carnegie Mellon University	Not Considered	CMU
201645	Case Western Reserve University	Considered
131283	Catholic University of America	Considered
156408	Centre College	Considered
230852	Champlain College	Important
111948	Chapman University	Considered
112260	Claremont McKenna College	Not Considered	CMC
165334	Clark University	Considered
190044	Clarkson University	Considered
217882	Clemson University	Not Considered
161086	Colby College	Considered
190099	Colgate University	Not Considered
217819	College of Charleston	Considered
160959	College of the Atlantic	Considered
166124	College of the Holy Cross	Considered
231624	College of William and Mary	Considered	W&M
126678	Colorado College	Considered	CC
126775	Colorado School of Mines	Considered
126818	Colorado State University	Not Considered	CSU
190150	Columbia University in the City of New York	Not Considered
128902	Connecticut College	Considered
190372	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	Considered
153162	Cornell College	Considered
190415	Cornell University	Not Considered
181002	Creighton University	Considered
190512	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College	Not Considered
190594	CUNY Hunter College	Not Considered
182670	Dartmouth College	Considered
198385	Davidson College	Not Reported
202523	Denison University	Considered
144740	DePaul University	Important
150400	DePauw University	Considered
212009	Dickinson College	Very Important
153269	Drake University	Considered
184348	Drew University	Considered
212054	Drexel University	Considered
198419	Duke University	Considered
212106	Duquesne University	Considered
150455	Earlham College	Not Considered
198464	East Carolina University	Considered	ECU
133492	Eckerd College	Important
212197	Elizabethtown College	Considered
198516	Elon University	Considered
133553	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Not Considered
165662	Emerson College	Not Considered
165671	Emmanuel College	Considered
139658	Emory University	Not Considered
129242	Fairfield University	Important
191126	Fashion Institute of Technology	Not Considered	FIT
133669	Florida Atlantic University	Considered	FAU
133881	Florida Institute of Technology	Important
133951	Florida International University	Considered	FIU
134079	Florida Southern College	Important
134097	Florida State University	Not Considered	FSU
191241	Fordham University	Considered
212577	Franklin and Marshall College	Considered	F&M
441982	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	Very Important
218070	Furman University	Considered
232186	George Mason University	Not Considered	GMU
131469	George Washington University	Considered	GWU
131496	Georgetown University	Not Considered
139861	Georgia College & State University	Very Important
139755	Georgia Institute of Technology	Not Considered	Georgia Tech
139940	Georgia State University	Not Considered
212674	Gettysburg College	Considered
235316	Gonzaga University	Considered
162654	Goucher College	Considered
153384	Grinnell College	Considered
212805	Grove City College	Very Important
173647	Gustavus Adolphus College	Considered
191515	Hamilton College	Considered
166018	Hampshire College	Considered
150756	Hanover College	Considered
166027	Harvard University	Not Considered
115409	Harvey Mudd College	Not Considered	HMC
212911	Haverford College	Considered
107080	Hendrix College	Not Considered
170286	Hillsdale College	Important
191630	Hobart William Smith Colleges	Considered
191649	Hofstra University	Considered
170301	Hope College	Not Considered
131520	Howard University	Considered	HU
145725	Illinois Institute of Technology	Considered	IIT
145646	Illinois Wesleyan University	Considered
151351	Indiana University-Bloomington	Not Considered	IUB
153603	Iowa State University	Not Considered
191968	Ithaca College	Very Important
232423	James Madison University	Not Considered	JMU
162928	Johns Hopkins University	Not Considered	JHU
213251	Juniata College	Not Considered
170532	Kalamazoo College	Considered
155399	Kansas State University	Not Considered
203535	Kenyon College	Important
169983	Kettering University	Considered
146427	Knox College	Considered
213385	Lafayette College	Considered
146481	Lake Forest College	Considered
239017	Lawrence University	Considered
192323	Le Moyne College	Considered
213543	Lehigh University	Important
209056	Lewis & Clark College	Considered
159391	Louisiana State University	Considered	LSU
117946	Loyola Marymount University	Not Considered	LMU
146719	Loyola University Chicago	Considered	LUC
163046	Loyola University Maryland	Not Considered
173902	Macalester College	Not Considered
161299	Maine Maritime Academy	Important
192819	Marist College	Considered
239105	Marquette University	Considered
166683	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Not Considered	MIT
140447	Mercer University	Very Important
204024	Miami University-Oxford	Not Considered
171100	Michigan State University	Important	MSU
171128	Michigan Technological University	Not Considered
230959	Middlebury College	Considered
239318	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Not Considered	MSOE
176080	Mississippi State University	Not Considered
178411	Missouri University of Science and Technology	Considered	MUST
180461	Montana State University	Not Considered
140553	Morehouse College	Very Important
166939	Mount Holyoke College	Considered	MHC
214175	Muhlenberg College	Considered
262129	New College of Florida	Considered
185828	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Considered	NJIT
187967	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	Not Considered	NMIT
193900	New York University	Considered	NYU
199193	North Carolina State University	Considered	NC State
167358	Northeastern University	Considered
147767	Northwestern University	Considered
204501	Oberlin College	Considered
120254	Occidental College	Important	Oxy
204796	Ohio State University	Not Considered	OSU
204857	Ohio University	Not Considered	OU
204909	Ohio Wesleyan University	Considered
209542	Oregon State University	Considered	OSU
214777	Pennsylvania State University	Not Considered	PSU; Penn State
121150	Pepperdine University	Not Considered
121257	Pitzer College	Considered
121345	Pomona College	Not Considered
194578	Pratt Institute-Main	Very Important
186131	Princeton University	Not Considered
217402	Providence College	Considered
243780	Purdue University-Main Campus	Considered
130226	Quinnipiac University	Important
186201	Ramapo College of New Jersey	Considered
209922	Reed College	Considered
194824	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Considered	RPI
217493	Rhode Island School of Design	Not Considered	RISD
221351	Rhodes College	Considered
227757	Rice University	Considered
195003	Rochester Institute of Technology	Important	RIT
136950	Rollins College	Considered
152318	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Considered	RHIT
184782	Rowan University	Not Considered
186371	Rutgers University-Camden	Important
186380	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	Not Considered	RU
186399	Rutgers University-Newark	Considered
183239	Saint Anselm College	Considered
179159	Saint Louis University	Not Considered	SLU
231059	Saint Michael's College	Considered
122409	San Diego State University	Not Considered	SDSU
122755	San Jose State University	Not Considered	SJSU
122931	Santa Clara University	Considered	SCU
195304	Sarah Lawrence College	Considered	SLC
123165	Scripps College	Not Considered
236595	Seattle University	Important
195474	Siena College	Considered
167783	Simmons University	Not Considered
195526	Skidmore College	Important
167835	Smith College	Not Considered
399911	Soka University of America	Important
228246	Southern Methodist University	Considered	SMU
228343	Southwestern University	Considered
195216	St Lawrence University	Not Considered	SLU
174844	St Olaf College	Important
163976	St. John's College	Important
245652	St. John's College	Important
163912	St. Mary's College of Maryland	Important
243744	Stanford University	Not Considered
196176	State University of New York at New Paltz	Considered
137546	Stetson University	Not Considered
186867	Stevens Institute of Technology	Considered
167996	Stonehill College	Considered
196097	Stony Brook University	Considered
196219	SUNY at Purchase College	Not Considered
196167	SUNY College at Geneseo	Important
196103	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	Very Important
216287	Swarthmore College	Not Considered
196413	Syracuse University	Very Important
216339	Temple University	Considered
228723	Texas A & M University-College Station	Considered
228875	Texas Christian University	Considered	TCU
229115	Texas Tech University	Considered
187134	The College of New Jersey	Important	TCNJ
206589	The College of Wooster	Important
193654	The New School	Considered
100751	The University of Alabama	Not Considered
180489	The University of Montana	Not Considered
137847	The University of Tampa	Considered
221759	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Not Considered	UTK
228778	The University of Texas at Austin	Not Considered	UT Austin
228787	The University of Texas at Dallas	Considered	UTD; UT Dallas
221519	The University of the South	Considered
124292	Thomas Aquinas College	Very Important
216366	Thomas Jefferson University	Not Reported
164076	Towson University	Not Considered
130590	Trinity College	Important
229267	Trinity University	Considered
178615	Truman State University	Considered
168148	Tufts University	Considered
160755	Tulane University of Louisiana	Important
196866	Union College	Considered
128328	United States Air Force Academy	Very Important	USAFA
130624	United States Coast Guard Academy	Considered	USCGA
197027	United States Merchant Marine Academy	Important
197036	United States Military Academy	Important	USMA
164155	United States Naval Academy	Very Important
196088	University at Buffalo	Not Considered
100663	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Not Considered	UAB
104179	University of Arizona	Important	UA
106397	University of Arkansas	Not Considered
110635	University of California-Berkeley	Not Considered	UCB: UC Berkeley
110644	University of California-Davis	Not Considered	UCD; UC Davis
110653	University of California-Irvine	Not Considered	UCI; UC Irvine
110662	University of California-Los Angeles	Not Considered	UCLA
445188	University of California-Merced	Not Considered	UC Merced
110671	University of California-Riverside	Not Considered	UCR; UC Riverside
110680	University of California-San Diego	Not Considered	UCSD; UC San Diego
110705	University of California-Santa Barbara	Not Considered	UCSB; UC Santa Barbara
110714	University of California-Santa Cruz	Not Considered	UCSC; UC Santa Cruz
132903	University of Central Florida	Considered	UCF
144050	University of Chicago	Not Considered	UChicago
201885	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	Not Considered
126614	University of Colorado Boulder	Not Considered
129020	University of Connecticut	Not Considered	UConn
224323	University of Dallas	Considered
130943	University of Delaware	Considered	UD
127060	University of Denver	Considered	UD
134130	University of Florida	Not Considered	UF
139959	University of Georgia	Not Considered	UGA
225511	University of Houston	Not Considered
142285	University of Idaho	Not Considered
145600	University of Illinois at Chicago	Not Considered	UIC
145637	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Not Considered	UIUC
153658	University of Iowa	Not Considered
155317	University of Kansas	Not Considered	KU
157085	University of Kentucky	Not Considered	UK
157289	University of Louisville	Not Considered
161253	University of Maine	Not Considered
232681	University of Mary Washington	Considered
163268	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	Not Considered	UMBC
163286	University of Maryland-College Park	Not Considered	UMD
166629	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Considered	UMass Amherst
166638	University of Massachusetts-Boston	Not Considered	UMass Boston
166513	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	Considered	UMass Lowell
135726	University of Miami	Considered	UM
170976	University of Michigan	Considered	UMich
174233	University of Minnesota-Duluth	Not Considered
174251	University of Minnesota-Morris	Considered
174066	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	Not Considered	UMN
176017	University of Mississippi	Not Considered	Ole Miss
178396	University of Missouri-Columbia	Not Considered	Mizzou
181464	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Not Considered	UNL
182281	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	Not Considered	UNLV
182290	University of Nevada-Reno	Not Considered	UNR
183044	University of New Hampshire	Not Considered	UNH
199111	University of North Carolina at Asheville	Considered	UNC Asheville
199120	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Not Considered	UNC Chapel Hill
199139	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Considered	UNCC; UNC Charlotte
199148	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Not Considered	UNCG; UNC Greensboro
199218	University of North Carolina Wilmington	Considered	UNC Wilmington
152080	University of Notre Dame	Considered	UND
207500	University of Oklahoma	Considered	OU
209551	University of Oregon	Not Considered
215062	University of Pennsylvania	Not Considered	UPenn
215293	University of Pittsburgh	Important
209825	University of Portland	Considered
236328	University of Puget Sound	Considered
121691	University of Redlands	Considered
217484	University of Rhode Island	Considered	URI
233374	University of Richmond	Not Considered
195030	University of Rochester	Important
122436	University of San Diego	Considered	USD
122612	University of San Francisco	Considered	USF
215929	University of Scranton	Considered
218663	University of South Carolina	Not Considered	USC
137351	University of South Florida	Not Considered	USF
123961	University of Southern California	Not Considered	USC
174914	University of St Thomas	Not Considered
231174	University of Vermont	Considered	UVM
234076	University of Virginia	Not Considered	UVA
377555	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	Important
236948	University of Washington-Seattle	Not Considered	UW
240444	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Not Considered	UW-Madison
216524	Ursinus College	Considered
221999	Vanderbilt University	Not Considered	Vandy
197133	Vassar College	Not Considered
216597	Villanova University	Not Considered
234030	Virginia Commonwealth University	Not Considered	VCU
233921	Virginia Tech	Not Considered	Virginia Tech
152673	Wabash College	Very Important
199847	Wake Forest University	Considered
234207	Washington and Lee University	Considered	W&L; WLU
164216	Washington College	Very Important
236939	Washington State University	Not Considered	WSU
179867	Washington University in St Louis	Not Considered	WashU
168218	Wellesley College	Considered
168227	Wentworth Institute of Technology	Considered
130697	Wesleyan University	Not Considered
216764	West Chester University of Pennsylvania	Not Considered
238032	West Virginia University	Not Considered	WVU
125727	Westmont College	Considered
149781	Wheaton College (IL)	Considered
168281	Wheaton College (MA)	Important
237057	Whitman College	Considered
125763	Whittier College	Very Important
210401	Willamette University	Not Considered
168342	Williams College	Not Considered
218973	Wofford College	Considered
168421	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Considered	WPI
130794	Yale University	Not Considered
197708	Yeshiva University	Considered	YU

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