<p>go get'em Beavers</p>
<p>Come on guys, post your decisions. Your identity will be kept secret. This will help rising high school seniors.</p>
<p>just wondering, how does it help rising high school seniors though?</p>
<p>I doubt you’ll get any meaningful conclusion out of the study with such as small, self-selective sample size.</p>
<p>don’t schools release their yield rates? I don’t see why one should sweat over this :P</p>
<p>I was told by midatlmom on another thread that the schools do not; after looking up the information myself, it seems that that is true. There’re secondary sources on the cross admit rates, but past discussions on CC have argued how they are slightly inaccurate and so on.</p>
<p>I thought they did.</p>
<p>[Class</a> of 2013 Yield Falls Despite Huge Increase in Number of Applications - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N35/yield.html]Class”>http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N35/yield.html)</p>
<p>That’s last year’s. I’m not sure if they will release this year though</p>
<p>They release yield rates, but not cross admit rates. Yield rates may not tell you everything about the other though.</p>
<p>I see. I’m sure the offices will have the numbers though. because in our reply form, we had to list the colleges that we got in and such.</p>
<p>There is no way for MIT to tell where the students admitted to MIT but enrolling elsewhere actually went. Even for the students enrolling at MIT, there is no official survey or where else they were accepted. Reporting the data on CC is one way to get an idea even if the sample size is small.</p>
<p>There may not be a way for them to tell for certain, but MIT does have this self report survey where, if you decline MIT’s offer of admission, you are asked to list your five/six top college choices, whether you were accepted or not at each of these institutions, and where you ultimately choose to matriculate. That would definitely give the admission office a good idea of the cross admit preferences.</p>
<p>Most students who decline admission do not send in the card creating a strong selection bias. There is is no obvious selection bias on CC. Some may exaggerate their admit stats, other reports are second hand, but these errors do not necessarily favor one school over another. </p>
<p>The CC self-report study may simply not be sufficiency powered to be statistically valid for any given year, but something like a 5 year average may be more reliable. This is especially a concern when assessing cross-admit statistics with schools like Yale which has significantly less overlap in applicants with MIT than Harvard, Princeton or Stanford.</p>
<p>IMO, the CC cross-admit reports have usually correlated pretty well with the prefrosh that I met over CPW and maintained contact with after.</p>
<p>I think it’s not in the colleges’ interest to release rigorous cross-admit studies, although they do report yield. Looking at the yield can give a rough picture, but usually minor gains and minor losses are usually not significant from year-to-year. IMO, yields need to be looked at at least through a 5-year range to get a more accurate picture and head-to-head competition of yields are usually not very informative either.</p>