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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regular Decision Yields (% of students admitted RD who choose to attend) of top 5 SLACs:

Pomona- 43.4%
Williams- 39%
Wellesley- 31.8%
Amherst- 29.7%
Swarthmore- 28.2%

Regular Decision Yields (% of students admitted RD who choose to attend) of selected top universities:

Dartmouth- 51.7%
Brown- 46.5%
Carnegie Mellon- 33.8%
Vanderbilt- 29.4%
Emory- 18.7%

So the Ivies do better but the yields are similar to other top 30 universities? [/quote]

I wouldn't take these numbers too literally; they may be out of date. For example, from the most recent common data set, the RD yield for Williams is 31%, for Pomona is 36%, and for Vanderbilt is 33%. As a rule of thumb (for the last few years), the RD yield for the Ivy+ universities is above 50%, for the elite SLACs is about 30%, and for the other private universities in the USNWR top 25 is about 30%. Amongst the SLACs, the only real exceptions to this rule with higher yields are Bowdoin, Pomona, and a couple of the women's colleges. Some may want to use the RD yield as a proxy for relative prestige, desirability, etc. between different institutions, but that only makes sense to the extent that they have strongly overlapping applicant pools. This may not really be true for different types of institutions, e.g. SLACs vs Ivy+ schools.[/quote]

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