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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Historical totals:

[img]https://i.imgur.com/gA0U243.jpg[/img][/quote]

Not exactly the trend lines the Board of Visitors would want to see. [/quote]

Yield rates are down at most schools over this time period because students apply to more schools.  (Schools like Harvard and Stanford buck the trend.)  UVA yield rate declined 10.5 percentage points over the same period.  At Doctoral institutions, average yield declined from 37.3% in 2007 to 30.3% in 2014.[/quote]

Notre Dame (not exactly Harvard or Stanford):
2013:  52.6%
2014:  53.1%
2015:  55.8%
2016:  56.0%
2017:  55.4%
2018:  57.4%
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You are just injecting a strawman argument.  I didn't say ONLY Harvard or Stanford thereby precluding Notre Dame (and you would have to take Notre Dame data back further to verify).

The point was the yield should be viewed in context and overall yield is going down at most schools and overall (from 37.3% in 2007 to 30.3% in 2014 at Doctoral institutions.  In Virginia, the trend is down following national trends.  From 2004 to 2017, W&M declined from 39.7% to 28.6%, UVA declined from 53.8% to 37.9%, VT declined from 38.7% to 35.6%, GMU declined from 33.4% to 23.5%, VCU declined from 46% to 32.9%, and JMU declined from 34.7% to 29.4%.

This doesn't mean the board at W&M wouldn't want a higher yield, but it puts it in a context that isn't apparent when that original graphic is seen in isolation.[/quote]

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