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[quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of mention of the smart kids who could have gone to an Ivy that end up attending a non-elite. This number is extremely low at this day and age- maybe 10% of the admit pool at these schools.  Harvard's yield just reached nearly 85%, Stanford is at 80%, Yale went to a record 73% and MIT was at 72%. The other elite schools with yields in the 40-70% range lose primarily to each other and to HYPS.

We have a friend who is an admissions officer at Williams. It has a relatively poor 45% yield for its reputation, but they send out a survey to the students who never submitted a deposit to get a sense of where they went. Some 80% chose another top 10 LAC or top 20 university instead. Only 10% went to a state school, most to prestigious ones like UM, Berkeley, and UCLA.

Needless to say I don't think that the elite schools hold the exclusive quota on talent, nor do I think that high school performance determines potential and ability. But looking at the students who turned down the elites to go to a non-elite is an extremely limited scope. [/quote]

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