Maybe some of these colleges should weight demonstrated interest more heavily.

With so many kids now routinely applying to 10-12 schools, regular decision yield is bound to go down for colleges as a whole. Quite a few colleges will prop up their yield numbers by taking an ever higher percentage of their freshman class from Early Decision.

They're admitting the top TOP students, who are using them as a safety.

There are also fewer graduating high school students -- the peak was 2010. So yields are going to go down.

http://hechingerreport.org/colleges-face-new-reality-number-high-schools-graduates-will-decline/

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Anonymous wrote:I subscribe to the magazine. I was not able to find 2017 admissions data online.

I see. If it's not too much to ask, could you tell me the total applying and admitted to these ten schools? Thank you so much.

Columbia, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Brown, Carleton, Dartmouth, and Middlebury

Could you also show the numbers for the rest of the SLACs please?

Why not just buy the magazine? The 2016 data is online.

Sorry I read this wrong..

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unless I am reading your post incorreectly, most of these schools RD apps are binding, if you get in you must go that means Cornell ED has 100% yeild for early apps. Where are you getting these numbers?/

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Anonymous wrote:I subscribe to the magazine. I was not able to find 2017 admissions data online.

I see. If it's not too much to ask, could you tell me the total applying and admitted to these ten schools? Thank you so much.

Columbia, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Brown, Carleton, Dartmouth, and Middlebury

Could you also show the numbers for the rest of the SLACs please?

Didn't Emory have a US News controversy awhile back?

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Anonymous wrote:My son is applying to a few privates. We havent told them, but if merit aid isn't forthcoming, he isn't going. I think they all face this problem.

Why haven't you told him? That will be an unpleasant surprise if he falls in love with a school that doesn't give merit money.

I took the PP's comment to mean that they haven't told the schools.

It's poorly drafted, but that sounds right.

As tuition rises, making private schools unaffordable to more families, yield will go down across the board, unless financial aid increases in turn.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is applying to a few privates. We havent told them, but if merit aid isn't forthcoming, he isn't going. I think they all face this problem.

Why haven't you told him? That will be an unpleasant surprise if he falls in love with a school that doesn't give merit money.

I took the PP's comment to mean that they haven't told the schools.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting data.....I'd imagine these yields are all dropping due to the increased number of applications kids are submitting nowadays.

That combined with the timing of aid packages (you don't know your price until you get your offers) explains a whole lot.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is applying to a few privates. We havent told them, but if merit aid isn't forthcoming, he isn't going. I think they all face this problem.

Why haven't you told him? That will be an unpleasant surprise if he falls in love with a school that doesn't give merit money.

I guess my point is lost. The schools do not know that without merit aid he isn't going. So, he applies, to a few privates to diversify (since they do look at something different than the public) but without aid, he would be one contributing to the yield problem.