55% yield

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<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | Yield for Class of ?14 climbs to 55 percent</p>

<p>1187 students? That's a lot! I thought the target size was 1100 students? I mean I guess higher yield is a good thing.....</p>

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<p>Wow! Popular place! Not surprising, though.</p>

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<p>A higher yield is a good thing until you run out of beds in the dorms. Then it’s a bad thing.</p>

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<p>High yield is bad for me as a waitlistee. I heard their target was 1080.
Looks like they overshot.</p>

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<p>Thats surprising that the yield rates increased as well as the application numbers. Dartmouth rocks</p>

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<p>So is Dartmouth going to overenroll?</p>

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<p>" Because of this year’s unusually high yield, any wait list activity will be very limited"
blah i don’t want to give up hope on the whole waitlist thing but now i dont know.</p>

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<p>From the wording in the article, I assume that Dartmouth still intends to take students off the waitlist, so don’t lose hope. If the Big Green were positive that they had overenrolled, I presume that Ms. Laskaris would state it plainly that there would be no tapping of the waitlisted.</p>

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<p>It’s more likely that Dartmouth plans to leave that option open in possible response to an abnormal number of people turning down Dartmouth for another school’s waitlist acceptance.</p>

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<p>Since Harvard announced it will take 50-75 of it’s WL, D will experience summer melt.</p>

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<p>I just read this online from NYTimes choice blog:</p>

<p>"Dartmouth, my alma mater, said its yield this spring was 55 percent. That is a 7 percent increase over last year — a jump so large that no applicant may be admitted from the waiting list this year, according to Maria Laskaris, the dean of admissions and financial aid. (Last year, 95 came off that list, she said.) "</p>

<p>Does this definitely mean no spots will be open at all?</p>

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<p>Here’s the article [The</a> Early Line on Admission Yields (and Wait-List Offers) - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/yield-3/]The”>The Early Line on Admission Yields (and Wait-List Offers) - The New York Times)</p>

<p>The increase in yield is also a result from the increased number of students Dartmouth admitted Early Decision. Even with the increase in class size, I believe a greater proportion of the Class of 2014 were admitted ED, and the use of ED certainly increases yield.</p>