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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wesleyan accepts nearly 3000 people (That's the size of the school!) just to get anywhere near 700 students. That's really poor yield.[/quote]

Show me that you know nothing about college yields without saying that you know nothing about college yields.[/quote]
You didn’t say anything, so I’m gonna continue on. A 25% yield is trash. Just because you like the school doesn’t make it any less trash.[/quote]

Well, if this is the hill you’re going to die on, at least understand the data. Wes does not consider demonstrated interest like many of its peers. It also does not offer spring admissions to manage admission rate and yield numbers. It also, to my knowledge, does not tender exploding offers from the waitlist. Wes takes a bunch of kids ED and then doesn’t play games in RD. It just accepts enough kids to fill out the class. Isn’t that what everyone says they want? A real shot in RD? Wes doesn’t need to be defended, though. It’s doing just fine. People who want to discount it for silly reasons really just limit themselves [/quote]
Almost none of the top liberal arts colleges consider demonstrated interest. The process of admission you described is most lacs-taking 1/2 the class ED and then some in RD. The point stands is that the yield is poor, so Wesleyan isn’t convincing the families it’s letting in RD-every school wants to improve that. We don’t need to agree on Wesleyan as an institution, but you should recognize that a low yield isn’t a great thing.[/quote]

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