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[quote=Anonymous]Given the presence of ED and SCEA, cross-admit data and yield is meaningless here. There is really no efficient market of free choices here as the ranking seems to imply. The sample size of true cross admit data between any two colleges is miniscule and barely moves the pointer on yield at these colleges. A large pool of the students with the most power to make independent decisions is removed from the pool with ED and practically with SCEA, because very few students get admitted to more than one SCEA School given the abysmal RD admit rate at these schools. Students that are left in the RD pool are essentially financial aid shoppers and their decision to pick one School over another is hardly "market efficient". It's heavily "market distorted" by aid dollars.

For e.g.a Penn vs Duke or Vanderbilt will only be based on an RD pool where Vanderbilt can win every cross admit bake off with enough merit or need based aid dollars. This says nothing about the true market position of either Penn or Vanderbilt. [/quote]

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