Yield rates, some surprises

[Anonymous]

I am surprised that Harvey Mudd has such a low yield. It offers both EDI and EDII. It also fills a very large portion of its class with ED admits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are these yield rates for the current year?

Threads should be automatically closed after 6 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You added other LACs but intentionally left of Amherst because it's lower than the others at 39%.

k
If you can get into amherst, you can get into much better lacs and much nicer ones too.

[Anonymous]

It is hard to believe that so many of the REA schools can have such high yield rates in this modern area of applying to so many places. With the exception of the recruited athletes, all the applicants I've known who are admitted EA still apply to numerous other top schools as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is hard to believe that so many of the REA schools can have such high yield rates in this modern area of applying to so many places. With the exception of the recruited athletes, all the applicants I've known who are admitted EA still apply to numerous other top schools as well.

Many students do it for the heck of it. DC’s friend got into Yale SCEA and personally committed instantly. He then completed 20 other apps to see where he could get into including Stanford, Harvard, JHU, and even MIT. He still chose Yale, cause that’s where he wanted to go.

[Anonymous]

I haven’t read the whole thread, but the link OP shared has both the yield and the acceptance rates. All of the state schools either have higher acceptance in-state or at least the same of in and out of state. But Maryland’s is 42% in state and 53% out of state and international. That seems really unfair, if accurate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is hard to believe that so many of the REA schools can have such high yield rates in this modern area of applying to so many places. With the exception of the recruited athletes, all the applicants I've known who are admitted EA still apply to numerous other top schools as well.

Many students do it for the heck of it. DC’s friend got into Yale SCEA and personally committed instantly. He then completed 20 other apps to see where he could get into including Stanford, Harvard, JHU, and even MIT. He still chose Yale, cause that’s where he wanted to go.

Kids like this really destroy possibilities for their classmates. There should be a blacklist for families that do this and their acceptances should be rescinded. And the counselors and principles that enable these cretins to screw over all the other students applying to highly selective colleges from their school should be banished from the field. Awful, selfish, cruel people. In an era of 3 percent acceptance rates, the trophy hunters are vile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is hard to believe that so many of the REA schools can have such high yield rates in this modern area of applying to so many places. With the exception of the recruited athletes, all the applicants I've known who are admitted EA still apply to numerous other top schools as well.

Many students do it for the heck of it. DC’s friend got into Yale SCEA and personally committed instantly. He then completed 20 other apps to see where he could get into including Stanford, Harvard, JHU, and even MIT. He still chose Yale, cause that’s where he wanted to go.

That's not very nice because it reduces the chances of a classmate getting in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You added other LACs but intentionally left of Amherst because it's lower than the others at 39%.

k
If you can get into amherst, you can get into much better lacs and much nicer ones too.

Curious, which ones are nicer than Amherst?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is hard to believe that so many of the REA schools can have such high yield rates in this modern area of applying to so many places. With the exception of the recruited athletes, all the applicants I've known who are admitted EA still apply to numerous other top schools as well.

Many students do it for the heck of it. DC’s friend got into Yale SCEA and personally committed instantly. He then completed 20 other apps to see where he could get into including Stanford, Harvard, JHU, and even MIT. He still chose Yale, cause that’s where he wanted to go.

That's not very nice because it reduces the chances of a classmate getting in.

yes, it's a complete a$$hole move. Kids are compared first and foremost to classmates.

[Anonymous]

UVA instate yield is 62%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You added other LACs but intentionally left of Amherst because it's lower than the others at 39%.

k
If you can get into amherst, you can get into much better lacs and much nicer ones too.

Curious, which ones are nicer than Amherst?

None are "better"; PP is holding some grudge. Nicer is an opinion. Amherst is beautiful, so is Swarthmore. Did not like Williams but others love it. Bowdoin is also pretty. But Amherst is the perfect idyllic campus and top-2 academically for SLACs. Mine picked an ivy but would have picked Amherst if the ivy said no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is hard to believe that so many of the REA schools can have such high yield rates in this modern area of applying to so many places. With the exception of the recruited athletes, all the applicants I've known who are admitted EA still apply to numerous other top schools as well.

Many students do it for the heck of it. DC’s friend got into Yale SCEA and personally committed instantly. He then completed 20 other apps to see where he could get into including Stanford, Harvard, JHU, and even MIT. He still chose Yale, cause that’s where he wanted to go.

That is such a bad move and a lack of respect for his classmates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like UChicago has something funky going on. They don't report their early decision data at all.

+1 it’s how they maintain a low acceptance rate. By accepting 75-80% of the class through ED1, ED2, and waitlist (forced commit waitlist which is basically ED3), UChicago can accept less overall students since they have so few accepted in RD. On the completely other end of the spectrum, Duke only accepts ~40% of their class through ED which is lower than every other elite school, which means they’re not afraid of losing tons of students to HPSM in RD each year. I respect the schools that use ED less heavily like Duke and Columbia.

Agreed and I also think it probably leads to having more students on campus who truly wanted to be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA instate yield is 62%

That’s not surprising?