Yield Dashboard

Ask for admit-to-enroll yield and get it in one view. When you ask, Joy reads your admissions system through a read-only connector and returns yield by program, residency, first-generation status, and aid tier against your target, with deposits set beside admits and a read on which segment is slipping.

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Sample prompt to Joy's Assistant

Show me admit-to-enroll yield for [entering class] by [program, residency, first-gen, and aid tier] against our [target], with deposits versus admits and where yield is slipping.

What it can look like

An illustrative example. Your output will reflect your own sources, data, and prompts.

Show me admit-to-enroll yield for Fall 2026 by program, residency, first-gen, and aid tier against our 38% target, with deposits versus admits and where yield is slipping.

I read your Fall 2026 admissions cycle just now. You are holding 1,684 deposits on 4,820 admits, a 34.9% yield against your 38% target, and the shortfall is concentrated in out-of-state and partial-aid liberal-arts admits rather than spread across the class.

Admit-to-Enroll Yield — Fall 2026

Here is where yield stands for the Fall 2026 entering class, read from your admissions system just now. You have admitted 4,820 students and hold 1,684 deposits, an overall yield of 34.9% against your 38% target. To close that gap before the May 1 deposit deadline you need 148 more deposits.

4,820
Admits
1,684
Deposits
34.9%
Yield
▼ 3.1 pts vs 38% target
148
Deposits to reach target
13 days
Until May 1 deadline

Yield holds up in the professional programs and falls away in the liberal arts. Nursing is your strongest at 44% and Business sits right on target at 38%, but Liberal Arts has converted just 27% of its 980 admits.

Admit-to-enroll yield by program

Nursing (BSN)44%
Business38%
Engineering35%
Sciences33%
Liberal Arts27%

Cutting the class a different way tells the same story. These segments overlap — an out-of-state liberal-arts admit on a partial-aid package sits in all three rows — so they don't add up to the class, they point at the same students from different angles.

SegmentAdmitsDepositsYieldvs target
Liberal Arts (program)98026527.0%−11.0 pts
Out-of-state1,64044427.1%−10.9 pts
First-generation1,21037531.0%−7.0 pts
Partial-aid tier1,05027326.0%−12.0 pts

The drag is concentrated, not spread across the class. Out-of-state admits (27.1%) and the partial-aid tier (26.0%) are furthest below target, and both overlap heavily with the liberal-arts pool that is pulling the average down. The partial-aid tier is the one to work first: at 1,050 admits, lifting it from 26% to 33% would add about 74 deposits, roughly half the 148 you still need.

The professional programs are already at or above target, so there is little to gain there. Point the deposit-deadline push at out-of-state and partial-aid liberal-arts admits — a targeted aid-package review and personal outreach to that group in the 13 days left — and re-run this read next week to see whether the segment is moving.

Want me to break the partial-aid tier down by program, or draft outreach talking points for out-of-state liberal-arts admits?

From a hand-built deposit report to one question

Yield Dashboard is an on-demand Visual Intelligence read. When you ask, Joy reads your admissions system through a read-only connector and returns admit-to-enroll yield by program, residency, first-generation status, and aid tier, each against your target, with deposits set beside admits so you see conversion, not just counts.

  1. Connect your admissions system

    Give Joy read-only access to your SIS or admissions CRM: admits, deposits, program, residency, the first-generation flag, and aid tier for the entering class. This is what Joy reads to compute yield.

  2. Ask for yield by segment

    Ask for admit-to-enroll yield for the class you care about, broken out by the segments that matter, against your target. No query language and no pivot tables.

  3. Read the picture Joy returns

    Joy returns yield tiles, a yield-by-program chart with your target marked, and a table of the segments furthest below target, with deposits shown against admits so the conversion is clear.

  4. Work the lagging segment

    Copy the read into your enrollment-committee notes, and ask Joy to break a segment down further or draft outreach for it so you can act before the deposit deadline.

  5. Make it one click for your team

    Save this ask as a custom command on the assistant your team already uses, so anyone can run it in one step.

Make it yours

Yield, not just counts

Every segment shows deposits against admits and the resulting yield, so you see conversion rather than a raw deposit total.

Measured against target

Each segment is shown against your yield target, with the gap in points, so the ones pulling you down are obvious at a glance.

The segment that's slipping

Joy names the segments furthest below target — by program, residency, first-gen, or aid tier — and where they overlap, not just the overall number.

Time to act on it

An on-demand read you can run the morning of your enrollment meeting and again a week later to see whether the segment is moving.

By program

Narrow the read to a single college or program to see how its yield compares with target and with last cycle.

Resident vs non-resident

Split yield by residency to see how much of the gap is out-of-state, where cost and travel weigh on the decision.

By aid tier

Break yield down by aid package to see whether gapped-aid students are converting and where a re-package might move the number.

Against last year

Compare this cycle's yield by segment against the same point last year to separate a real slide from normal timing.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I see admit-to-enroll yield by segment?

Ask Joy. It reads your admissions system and returns yield for the entering class broken out by program, residency, first-generation status, and aid tier, each against your target, with deposits shown against admits so you see conversion rather than raw counts.

Is this a live board or a read I ask for?

It is an on-demand read. You ask in chat, Joy pulls the current admit and deposit figures at that moment, and returns the yield picture. It is not a standing dashboard that refreshes on its own or pushes updates between questions.

Does it send alerts when yield drops?

No. There is no scheduled refresh and no alerts or push. You decide when to look by asking, and Joy answers with the numbers as they stand right then. Nothing arrives unless you request it.

How is yield calculated?

Yield is deposits divided by admits for the segment you asked about. In the example, 1,684 deposits on 4,820 admits is a 34.9% overall yield, and each segment's yield is its own deposits over its own admits, shown against your target.

Can Joy help me act on the lagging segment?

Ask and Joy will break the segment down further or draft outreach for it — talking points for out-of-state admits, or a note flagging students for an aid re-package review. You send it and act in your systems; Joy reads and drafts, it does not write back.

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