YTAR captures a lot of data in one single metric. For example Stanford would be 87.2/4.7 (Yield rate/admit rate) which would be 18.5. YATR is also a good summary metric of the school’s march up the desirability/prestige ladder (with some caveats around gaming etc), for whatever that is worth. In general, the more desirable a school is among students, the higher its YATR will be
Based on data posted at
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19735819/#Comment_19735819 and
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19737703/#Comment_19737703
Here is the Yield to Admit Ratios for various colleges. Please add to this list if you can.
Stanford - 18.55
Harvard - 18.81
Yale - 10.95
Princeton - 10.81
Columbia - 10.63
MIT - 9.66
Chicago - 8.35
Penn - 7.10
Brown - 6.32
Dartmouth - 5.14
Cornell - 3.72
CMU - 2.02
If you know the yield and admit rates for other universities, please post their YTAR here.
University of Michigan
Based on the 2015 entering class (last year’s entering class - Class of 2019):
1.69740224303
Lower than I thought it would be, but then again, it is a state school, so yields will be low.
@VeryLuckyParent - where did you find the 87.2% yield rate for Stanford? It seems very high compared to the past.
Edit: I checked one of your links and noticed someone estimated a class size of 1800 and created a yield number. However, yield is usually based on how many actually accept and I don’t know if this number is out yet. Stanford typically has had a yield around 80% and it was 81.1% last year.
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/06/09/de-vx-record-81-1-percent-yield-rate-reported-for-class-of-2019/
College of the Ozarks
Admit rate = 9%
Yield rate = 85%
OP’s Y/A measure = 9.4
Curtis Institute of Music
Admit rate = 5.1%
Yield rate = 92.9%
OP’s Y/A measure = 18.4
Admit rate for all schools is probably the least useful statistic out there, especially in the common app era. Dividing another percentage by that percentage doesn’t yield a number that correlates to anything; you’re comparing different populations and behaviors.
Adding schools in bold
Here is the Yield to Admit Ratios for various colleges.
Stanford - 18.55
Harvard - 18.81
Curtis Institute of Music - 18.4
Yale - 10.95
Princeton - 10.81
Columbia - 10.63
MIT - 9.66
College of the Ozarks - 9.4
Chicago - 8.35
Penn - 7.10
Brown - 6.32
Dartmouth - 5.14
Cornell - 3.72
CMU - 2.02
Michigan(2019) - 1.69
typo – Harvard is 15.21, not 18.21 (82.20%/5.2%)
Adding Davidson College (from https://www.davidson.edu/admission-and-financial-aid/class-of-2020-profile).
I like the YTAR metric, but as was pointed out by @texaspg, the source yields used that are based on “estimated class size” don’t seem very accurate. For Harvard, the reported yield is 82.2%, but Harvard itself reports the yield to be “nearly 80%” (see http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/05/yield-remains-high-for-class-of-2020/)
Stanford - 18.55
Harvard - 15.81
Curtis Institute of Music - 18.4
Yale - 10.95
Princeton - 10.81
Columbia - 10.63
MIT - 9.66
College of the Ozarks - 9.4
Chicago - 8.35
Penn - 7.10
Brown - 6.32
Dartmouth - 5.14
Cornell - 3.72
Davidson - 2.30
CMU - 2.02
Michigan(2019) - 1.69
@foosondaughter we were looking Stanford yield in another thread and Stanford reported it to be 82.35% or so. They essentially increased the number of admits (counting additional waitlist offers) and used 1751 or so matriculants.