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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many good in state students apply to both William & Mary and UVA, and many of those are accepted to both.  William &
Mary’s in state yield for 22-23 was 34 percent and UVA’s was 57 percent.  It’s pretty obvious that more often than not William & Mary loses the in state battle to UVA.  [/quote]

UVA has something like 2.7X as many undergrads.  From that perspective, mathematically, it has to "win" the battle.  [/quote]

You obviously didn’t major in math in college.

[b]Yield is about the percentage of admits to both who choose UVA[/b].  We’re not talking about raw numbers. [/quote]

Ah, the DCUM put down.  It didn't take long to surface.

Yield is not the percentage of admits [b]to both[/b] who choose UVA.  It is just applied to an individual school.

While you are correct that yield is a percentage, it is a percentage that can and is be applied to produce raw numbers.  It is used to predict enrollment, for instance.   What I am saying simply is that two schools drawing from the same population targeted for acceptance can have identical enrolled student stats and identical acceptance rates but different yield rates if one school is larger than the other.   The smaller school will have a lower yield compared to the larger.

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