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However, Chicago had a yield of 79% this year (72% last year).  Likely far better than Duke which had a 50% yield last year (though Duke hasn't yet released this year's yield %).   [/quote]

Obsession with yield is desperate. And obviously it is gamed quite easily. Cross-admit battles are visible on social media and if your children attend a strong and large enough high school, you can pick up on patterns. One such pattern is RD applicants are not turning down Ivies Duke MIT Stanford to attend Chicago.[/quote]
This is one the dumbest arguments I have heard. Yield tells you how much of your admitted pool you are getting and it is important because the higher the number the fewer kids you are losing overall. Most private schools that lose admits from the RD pool do so to state schools because of cost or to lower tier privates because of merit aid.

Most private schools have gotten very sophisticated in their data analysis and know precisely who their likely losses are going to be. They also have very good profile data on cross admit battles they have lost and actively seek to minimize such losses by not admitting students who are likely to be admits at other schools and losses to them. Thus  at the Top ten level with proliferation of ED and massive data analysis cross admit battles are a miniscule number.

Chicago just isn't losing many kids in cross admits battles period.  Because they have sophisticated data analysis to weed out such potential losses from their admit pool all together.

And this argument that if your child attends a strong and large enough high school you would have front row seats to cross admit battles is laughable. Even at the best privates, Harvard or Chicago will admit around 10 to 15 students and at the same schools Duke probably less than 5. The chances of overlap in this pool in the RD round is almost non existent. At publics where most of the RD battles will probably occur, the numbers are even smaller to even spot a battle of there is one. [/quote]

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