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[quote=Anonymous]On the contrary, I think LACs do see the yield effect. More so than the Ivies.

From my experience, Williams is not the most desirable LAC a la Harvard. In cross admits, it loses 40-55% against Amherst and Swarthmore, and on the West Coast to Pomona. Harvard only really competes against Stanford, but wins considerably against Yale and Princeton (as well as the other Ivies).

The net effect of that is that when students are admitted across numerous LACs, there isn't one clear choice that they go to which takes the yield win. So the yields get scattered.

Because this fundamentally boils down to the likelihood of cross-admit, schools with a higher acceptance rate (along with their peers) see lower yields. Not too many students get into all 4 of Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, or UPenn, or even many. The fact that LACs have higher acceptance rates means that you'll see more students admitted to multiple among Amherst, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Williams, Bowdoin, etc. The acceptance rate difference is almost 1.5-2x larger, so that influences the RD yield.[/quote]

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