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[quote=Anonymous]Harvard's yield is impressive; Dartmouth's is not.

Basically, any highly selective school with ED can raise its yield at will (and without lowering its selectivity as measured by grades and scores). You just take a higher percentage of the class from your ED pool because 100% of those applicants have committed to attend your school if accepted and if their demonstrated financial need is met. (You also know in advance who has no financial need.)  By contrast, less than half of the applicants admitted through RD (where kids can make an informed decision, knowing all their options) accepted Dartmouth's offer.

FWIW, this isn't an Ivy-specific phenomenon.  They'll be a big jump in UChicago's yield this year as well -- they just introduced ED1 and ED2 and admitted kids from those pools at a dramatically higher rate than from EA or RD pools.

I think it's a really messed-up system.  We're telling our kids not to fixate on "the one," but if they aren't willing to make a binding declaration by Nov 1 as to which highly selective school that is, then they may not have a chance at any of them.  Of course, the vast majority of them will be rejected despite applying early and get to spend December through April of their Senior year scared, stressed, and/or depressed.

On one level -- boohoo, first world problems that will primarily hurt people who have a ridiculously narrow view of where you can get a great education.  OTOH, why make this process more fraught than it already is?  So schools can brag about these meaningless/manipulable statistics?[/quote]

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