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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]William and Mary applications fell this year and their admission rate (36 percent) is unimpressive.  What’s going on with that school?[/quote]

Plus, to follow up, I just noticed that their yield has been very poor over the past several years.  So no to William and Mary OOS.  UVA would be the only one to consider from my perspective.[/quote]

Just curious. Why would you let the yield rate drive your opinion? No one outside of people dealing with the admissions process really talks about yield. [/quote]

The yield tells me that it’s not very popular.  I think it’s a great school but I think it’s slipoing.[/quote]

Lots of OOS high-stats kids apply to W&M. They turn it down for Ivies and other Top 20 schools. But, a good option.[/quote]

W&M is a unique institution as a public college that seems much more like highly selective private school.  The admission rate is somewhat meaningless in these days where students/hs counselors have so much data on admission stats--for public schools applicants are really self-selecting.  It's better  to look at the stats of the admitted class.  W&M has the highest average SATs out of all the public colleges/universities in Virginia.  Its average GPA is the same as UVA.  It also is the most expensive of the public institutions so some VA students who are accepted to W&M will choose others on cost thus impacting its yield.  It is required to admit 2/3 of Virginia students and doesn't offer great aid to out of state students (doesn't have the same freedoms as a private institution).  So many OOS students will opt for private schools.  But this has not affected the caliber of its admitted class, so I think it is not accurate to see it as "slipping."

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