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[quote=Anonymous]NP: I think it's very hard to look at any of these schools' trends without holding all three of these in mind across the years:

1.  the profile of admitted applicants?  SAT scores/GPA
2.  the % admitted
3.  the yield

Taken together these trend lines tell you something about the school's enrollment trajectory  W&M is particularly unusual as the most expensive in-state public school that presents (and attracts students) like a private liberal arts college: it's going to be a bit quirky.  But it's got very solid trends in admitted profiles (consistently attracting very high SAT & GPA students).  I don't think the Parchment data tell you much when you compare schools that are too different from one another, and there are really no other schools in the same niche as W&M.  I think W&M suffers just a bit compared to private schools in the out-of-state bin because as a public school it can't throw merit money around to compete with private schools, nor does it guarantee meeting demonstrated need OOS.  It suffers a bit to public schools in-state by being more expensive.  But for the high achieving students who know they want to go there, it consistently does just fine (and then surveys suggest they are happy once there--and the Princeton Review Surveys have a decent research design/sampling process).[/quote]

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