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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree families want the most prestige. Kids will pick HYP over Brown and Cornell. Most people know Williams and Amherst are the best.[/quote]
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]

Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.[/quote]

Bowdoin took 270 ED last year, and accepted 22 from the WL (likely 100% matriculation). So they had another 200 or so spots to fill. Not so difficult to cull the RD applicants to fund a good number that are likely to matriculate if offered admission, especially if they look for high GPA kids who didn't submit test scores (only 31% of matriculants did). Yield isn't as telling as you make it out to be. [/quote]
So about 50% of their students come from ED, just like Williams and Amherst. There’s no trickery going on here.[/quote]

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