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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the coed, non-military LACs below Williams and Amherst, like Bowdoin, have ED2 to help reduce acceptance rates and increase yields.

Weaker schools offer ED2.
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Not really. When you look at the yield for RD alone, which you may do by using the numbers in the CDS and performing a simple calculation, you find that Bowdoin’s yield (40+%) is still significantly higher than Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Swat (all in the 20+% range). RD yield is more telling than net yield, because it is in RD that applicants really get to choose between multiple offers. So among the elite WASP SLACs, when students get accepted they still only choose to attend that school about 1 time in 4. This says to me that either A) students are applying to all same elite SLACs, getting into all of them, and choosing one, or B) getting into an ivy+, all of which have RD yield rates above 50%, and choosing that instead. What do Bowdoin, CMC, and a very few other SLACs do to boost their RD yield? Good question![/quote]

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