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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I stand corrected.  I still don't think cross admit figures have changed that much between the non HYP Ivys and Williams and Amherst.  If Parchment is to believed, 67% of cross admits betw Williams and Dartmouth choose Williams:  http://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Dartmouth+College&with=williams  That really doesn't seem right to me but I'd bet that cross admit stats between the 90s and today hasn't materially changed.  Then again who knows for sure...[/quote]

Parchment has been around for quite a while.. 2007 or so? It'd be interesting to see patterns for recent years. Some students in Dartmouth recently asked a survey from enrolled students (http://www.dartblog.com/data/2017/02/013116.php) about the schools they turned down, and both Williams/Amherst were in the top 5 with 7.56% turning them down each. The results includes ED students who couldn't apply elsewhere (who represent 50% of the student body, similar to Amherst/Williams), so in reality, you're looking at around 15% of the students admitted RD turning down Amherst and 15% turning down Williams.

Dartmouth got a big spike in yield too, going to 61% last year vs. 52% the year before. Amherst's yield remained consistent at ~40%, and Williams at ~44%. If I had to guess, I'd guess that Amherst/Williams lose the cross-admit battle to Dartmouth today- not as major as HYPS, but still a loss.[/quote]

It may be a simplistic argument but it seems obvious that yield numbers tend to be strongly correlated with the % of ED admits.  Dartmouth takes 50% while Williams a bit less and Amherst even less with 33-35%.  I'm curious if over time RD yield numbers at Dartmouth also increase as the perception of desirability (due to increases in yield) increase RD yield as well.  [/quote]

Oh, Dartmouth just published their CDS. Here are the respective yields at the three schools for last year- Dartmouth, Williams, and Amherst.

Dartmouth: 10.4% acceptance rate. 1217 enrolled out of 2093 admits (58.1% yield overall). 565/1999 admitted ED (28.2% acceptance rate, 46.5% of class filled ED). RD yield: 652/1528 = 42.7%
Williams: 14.6% acceptance rate. 548 enrolled out of 1253 admits (43.7% yield overall). 257/727 admitted ED (35.4% acceptance rate, 46.9% of class filled ED). RD yield: 291/996 = 29.2%
Amherst: 12.9% acceptance rate. 471 enrolled out of 1198 admits (39.3% yield overall). 173/502 admitted ED (34.4% acceptance rate, 36.7% of class filled ED). RD yield: 298/1025 = 29.0%

It does seem that there is a considerable gap in RD yield between Dartmouth and Williams/Amherst, which has existed in the past, but to a lower extent (Dartmouth's RD yield last year was 37%; A/W were at 29-30%). Another interesting point is the percent of waitlisted students who chose to remain on the waitlist. At Dartmouth, 66.6%, At Williams, 37.7%, and at Amherst, 51.1%. I'd want to look at this in past years, but are some students applying to W/A mainly as a backup if the Ivies fail to come through? [/quote]

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