I guess my point is lost. The schools do not know that without merit aid he isn't going. So, he applies, to a few privates to diversify (since they do look at something different than the public) but without aid, he would be one contributing to the yield problem. |
That combined with the timing of aid packages (you don't know your price until you get your offers) explains a whole lot. |
I took the PP's comment to mean that they haven't told the schools. |
| As tuition rises, making private schools unaffordable to more families, yield will go down across the board, unless financial aid increases in turn. |
It's poorly drafted, but that sounds right. |
| Didn't Emory have a US News controversy awhile back? |
Could you also show the numbers for the rest of the SLACs please? |
| unless I am reading your post incorreectly, most of these schools RD apps are binding, if you get in you must go that means Cornell ED has 100% yeild for early apps. Where are you getting these numbers?/ |
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| Sorry I read this wrong.. |
Why not just buy the magazine? The 2016 data is online. |
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There are also fewer graduating high school students -- the peak was 2010. So yields are going to go down.
http://hechingerreport.org/colleges-face-new-reality-number-high-schools-graduates-will-decline/ |
| They're admitting the top TOP students, who are using them as a safety. |
| With so many kids now routinely applying to 10-12 schools, regular decision yield is bound to go down for colleges as a whole. Quite a few colleges will prop up their yield numbers by taking an ever higher percentage of their freshman class from Early Decision. |
| Maybe some of these colleges should weight demonstrated interest more heavily. |