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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at colleges in US News top 50 (I know that there are thousands of other colleges, but just using this as the dataset for prestige-chasing NOVA tiger mothers):

I would think it would be the lowest-yielding ones, so Rochester, Emory, Boston Univ, Lehigh

2026 U.S. NEWS TOP 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES - SORTED BY YIELD RATE
(Yield = enrolled / admitted. Class of 2029 / Fall 2025 unless marked *)

#  University                    USN'26   Yield
 --  ---------------------------   ------   -----
  1  University of Chicago *    6     88.3%
  2  MIT                                2     86.6%
  3  Harvard                          3     83.6%
  4  Stanford *                      4     82.0%
  5  Princeton                        1     75.4%
  6  Brown                           13     73.1%
  7  Dartmouth                     13     70.9%
  8  Penn                               7     68.8%
  9  Yale                                4     68.4%
 10  Notre Dame                  20     64.0%
 11  Cornell                         12     63.6%
 12  Vanderbilt                     17     63.1%
 13  Columbia                       15     61.3%
 14  Caltech                         11     58.6%
 15  Northwestern                  7     57.7%
 16  Duke                              7     57.3%
 17  NYU *                           32     55.4%
 18  Northeastern *              46     53.8%
 19  Johns Hopkins                 7     51.4%
 20  Washington U.               20     49.5%
 21  UT Austin                      30     49.1%
 22  Tufts                             36     48.8%
 23  UCLA                            17     48.0%
 24  Carnegie Mellon             20     46.8%
 25  Georgetown *                24     46.7%
 26  UC Berkeley                   15     46.6%
 27  Michigan                        20     45.7%
 28  Georgia Tech                  32     45.6%
 29  Boston College               36     45.1%
 30  Rice                               17     42.8%
 31  Florida *                        30     42.2%
 32  USC                              28     40.2%
 33  UNC-Chapel Hill             26     39.9%
 34  Virginia                         26     39.5%
 35  Georgia                         46     38.3%
 36  Emory                           24     37.3%
 37  Boston University           42     35.0%
 38  Illinois (UIUC)                36     30.3%
 39  Wisconsin-Madison         36     28.2%
 40  Lehigh                           46     27.4%
 41  Washington *                 42     26.6%
 42  Purdue                          46     25.5%
 43  Maryland                       42     21.7%
 44  Rutgers                         42     20.5%
 45  Ohio State                     41     20.5%
 46  UC San Diego                29     20.3%
 47  UC Irvine                       32     18.0%
 48  Rochester *                   46     15.4%
 49  UC Davis                        32     14.9%
 50  UC Santa Barbara           40     12.1%

* = most recent available figure (Fall 2024 / 2024-25, mainly IPEDS);
    these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.
Source: official Common Data Sets / institutional research; U.S. News
2026 Best National Universities ranking.
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Emory, [b]Purdue[/b], Boston Univ, Lehigh, Rochester all jump out. Very low yields.[/quote]

It doesn't make sense to throw a state school in with privates. For very obvious reasons, out-of-state yields are going to be much lower than in-state.[/quote]

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