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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It says W&M is a safety school for VA kids with high scores.[/quote]

How was Radford?[/quote]

Not sure what that means (or what Radford is), but I assume it’s insulting.

My point was simple.  If school A has higher admitted scores, lower matriculant scores and lower yield than school B, it means school A functions more as a safety school for high performers than school B.  That doesn’t make school A a bad or a worse school than B.  Presumably, it means school A appeals to high performers (many of whom have other options they prefer).  [/quote]

Cross-admits are significantly more likely to choose UVA than W&M, so from one perspective it looks like it is a backup option for UVA.  But UVA has a lot more spots to fill, so the stats end up being almost equal between the two.  If the pattern switched, and cross-admits favored W&M, W&M's yield and stats would have to go up significantly (unless it expanded class size).

If you look at the Parchment web site, where you can compare which college a student chooses when they have been admitted to both, there is a very interesting pattern.  If you look at all the Ivy league schools plus Duke, Gtown, JHU, Vandy, and Tufts and compare them to UVA and W&M, you see that a higher percentage of cross-admits choose W&M than UVA in all cases except for Gtown and JHU (the percentages are equal at Penn).  So that means W&M did better on 10 out of 13 and tied on one.

Although all data sources can be flawed, Parchment usually produces the results you would expect for top school comparisons (e.g. Harvard against any other Ivy or vs Duke).  My hypothesis would be that W&M is simultaneously considered to be a backup to UVA (or perhaps more correctly a second bet) for a segment of in-state applicants, but also has some inherent appeal for another segment that is reflected in the Parchment data.

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Parchment data is meaningless.  For ex, it says 60% of cross admits choose American University over Amherst College and 40% choose AU over Harvard.  [/quote]

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