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[quote=Anonymous]On the whole Ivy vs. LAC thing, I don't think top LACs are being held in the same regard as the Ivies by the top students. The yield difference is substantial. The average yield for the 8 Ivies is 64%. The average yield for the top 10 LACs is 44%. Amherst/Swarthmore/Williams have an average yield of 41%.

Some of the Ivies lack early processes, while others like Cornell, Columbia, and Brown fill in a fewer percent of their class with ED than the LACs. If you just focus on the regular decision yields, every Ivy is above 40%, Williams and Amherst are at 30%, and Swarthmore is at 26%. The two LACs which come closest are Pomona and Wellesley at 37%, but that's still lagging behind the Ivies.

A survey given at Dartmouth cited that Williams and Amherst were in the top 5 schools most frequently turned down by current students. Middlebury was near the top as well: http://www.dartblog.com/data/2017/02/013116.php

Hard to make a case for LACs with the dynamic energy of the university experience, access to rich research, and a shifting of the curriculum to be more akin to the LACs. HYP and UChicago actually have a higher percent of classes under 20 students than any top LAC.[/quote]

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