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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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NP
Is the PP who posted these yield rankings new to college admissions?

Everyone knows the Chicago numbers are fake. That’s like posting Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed 6’3”, 215 pounds stats to “prove” he is the “healthiest president in the best shape ever”.

Chicago manipulated their yield rate to achieve this fake #1 by having ED0, ED1, ED2, making EA applicants switch to ED3, and making RD applicants switch to ED4. They call you all the way until April and May to switch. Fewer than 20% of their total admitted students are from real regular decisions. This means 1) their yield is artificially inflated (by a lot) and 2) many of their admitted students didn’t have the confidence they could get into anywhere else in T15.

If you really believe Chicago’s yield is higher than MIT, Harvard and Stanford’s, I have a bridge to sell you. [/quote]

This isn’t news to anybody — hilarious how you think that this drivel is some sort of exposé.

A tell that you are unintelligent is the use of the phrases “ED3” and “ED4.” [/quote]

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