I’ll play! Northeasters and Tulane

Looking at colleges in US News top 50 (I know that there are thousands of other colleges, but just using this as the dataset for prestige-chasing NOVA tiger mothers):

I would think it would be the lowest-yielding ones, so Rochester, Emory, Boston Univ, Lehigh


2026 U.S. NEWS TOP 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES - SORTED BY YIELD RATE
(Yield = enrolled / admitted. Class of 2029 / Fall 2025 unless marked *)

# University USN'26 Yield
-- --------------------------- ------ -----
1 University of Chicago * 6 88.3%
2 MIT 2 86.6%
3 Harvard 3 83.6%
4 Stanford * 4 82.0%
5 Princeton 1 75.4%
6 Brown 13 73.1%
7 Dartmouth 13 70.9%
8 Penn 7 68.8%
9 Yale 4 68.4%
10 Notre Dame 20 64.0%
11 Cornell 12 63.6%
12 Vanderbilt 17 63.1%
13 Columbia 15 61.3%
14 Caltech 11 58.6%
15 Northwestern 7 57.7%
16 Duke 7 57.3%
17 NYU * 32 55.4%
18 Northeastern * 46 53.8%
19 Johns Hopkins 7 51.4%
20 Washington U. 20 49.5%
21 UT Austin 30 49.1%
22 Tufts 36 48.8%
23 UCLA 17 48.0%
24 Carnegie Mellon 20 46.8%
25 Georgetown * 24 46.7%
26 UC Berkeley 15 46.6%
27 Michigan 20 45.7%
28 Georgia Tech 32 45.6%
29 Boston College 36 45.1%
30 Rice 17 42.8%
31 Florida * 30 42.2%
32 USC 28 40.2%
33 UNC-Chapel Hill 26 39.9%
34 Virginia 26 39.5%
35 Georgia 46 38.3%
36 Emory 24 37.3%
37 Boston University 42 35.0%
38 Illinois (UIUC) 36 30.3%
39 Wisconsin-Madison 36 28.2%
40 Lehigh 46 27.4%
41 Washington * 42 26.6%
42 Purdue 46 25.5%
43 Maryland 42 21.7%
44 Rutgers 42 20.5%
45 Ohio State 41 20.5%
46 UC San Diego 29 20.3%
47 UC Irvine 32 18.0%
48 Rochester * 46 15.4%
49 UC Davis 32 14.9%
50 UC Santa Barbara 40 12.1%

* = most recent available figure (Fall 2024 / 2024-25, mainly IPEDS);
these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.
Source: official Common Data Sets / institutional research; U.S. News
2026 Best National Universities ranking.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

Then why add EA? Why did their app numbers decline? Washu's waitlist is still open, while Emory closed there's.

Last year, WashU's yield rate was 49%, which was significantly higher than Emory's 37% (Atlanta) and 17% (Oxford). These numbers show that Emory is much more of a back up school than WashU (not that WashU isn't).

We can all pick and choose which stats we want to follow... Some of us like to look at all the data and not just one metric.
But Emory received 43k apps to WashUs 33k. Emory has closed their waitlist Washu is still open. Seemingly, Emory has better yeild management.

"Emory University Early Acceptance Rate: Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, received a record 3,593 Early Decision I applications to the Class of 2030 and admitted 1,041 students for an early acceptance rate of 29%, according to the Emory Wheel."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

Then why add EA? Why did their app numbers decline? Washu's waitlist is still open, while Emory closed there's.

Last year, WashU's yield rate was 49%, which was significantly higher than Emory's 37% (Atlanta) and 17% (Oxford). These numbers show that Emory is much more of a back up school than WashU (not that WashU isn't).

We can all pick and choose which stats we want to follow... Some of us like to look at all the data and not just one metric.
But Emory received 43k apps to WashUs 33k. Emory has closed their waitlist Washu is still open. Seemingly, Emory has better yeild management.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

Then why add EA? Why did their app numbers decline? Washu's waitlist is still open, while Emory closed there's.

Last year, WashU's yield rate was 49%, which was significantly higher than Emory's 37% (Atlanta) and 17% (Oxford). These numbers show that Emory is much more of a back up school than WashU (not that WashU isn't).

Anonymous wrote:Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

Then why add EA? Why did their app numbers decline? Washu's waitlist is still open, while Emory closed there's.

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Anonymous wrote:We really really like UChicago’s ED0 round, and don't mind paying for the SSEN program at all. As far as we know, UChicago is the only school that currently offers this type of option. And ED0 has become increasingly popular at our school. That said, UChicago may not be the right fit for every student. Which other colleges are most likely to adopt a similar ED0 admissions process in the near future?

This is why WashU created EA....very smart business move imo.

Huh? PP said nothing about EA and you responded with "This is why WashU created EA." Care to elaborate? I'm honestly trying to understand the rationale behind ED schools adding EA. What's the thought process there? For example, someone who EA to WashU must not have applied REA/SCEA to the handful of schools that have it, thus signaling something. Or, WashU gets an early look at the pool and can always defer thet with little loss. So what's the logic here?

None of the other T20 schools will do this. lol Chicago is the ultimate try hard innovator in admissions gimmicks. If another T20 ever adopts ED0, Chicago will have to invent junior year ED just to keep its applicant pool from disappearing.

I think Uchicago is very particular about admissions in a way that other schools aren’t. I actually think the ED “yield boosting” is great- pretty much everyone who goes has Uchicago as their first choice and that means alumni actually give back, alumni really like and invest in what the school’s mission is, and they keep tabs on the changes going on.

Anonymous wrote:We really really like UChicago’s ED0 round, and don't mind paying for the SSEN program at all. As far as we know, UChicago is the only school that currently offers this type of option. And ED0 has become increasingly popular at our school. That said, UChicago may not be the right fit for every student. Which other colleges are most likely to adopt a similar ED0 admissions process in the near future?

This is why WashU created EA....very smart business move imo.

UChicago's summer program may allow the university to get a better understanding of the applicant's performance. Not many universities have this sort of summer program.

Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

WashU maybe? They are actively adjusting application rounds, including adding EA while keeping ED1 and ED2. It already fills a very large share of the class through ED, and already run sizable precollege summer programs.

Wake Forest has rolling ED. If you apply early, some kids know by end of September. Imo, it's great bc if you don't get accepted, you can apply ed1 to another school ny Nov 1.

We really really like UChicago’s ED0 round, and don't mind paying for the SSEN program at all. As far as we know, UChicago is the only school that currently offers this type of option. And ED0 has become increasingly popular at our school. That said, UChicago may not be the right fit for every student. Which other colleges are most likely to adopt a similar ED0 admissions process in the near future?