<p>lol…it’s just one of the many examples to show NU people don’t play marketing games. 
Another example is they don’t show test scores of “admitted” students on their website. Always undersell.</p>
<p>sam yet other colleges ONLY show the admitted students test scores on their website year round.</p>
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<p>No it doesn’t. Princeton maintains a yield only slightly below UPenn’s without relying on early decision as a crutch.</p>
<p>Furthermore, this year does not show a significant shift in yield numbers (assuming that is Princeton’s yield - which I have yet to see a source for), so I don’t understand how it becomes more ambiguous.</p>
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<p>Actually the examples above only show that NU is not releasing verifiable data on its current admissions … forcing observers into circular quotations. For instance, has NU released numbers for applications and … admissions for the Class of 2014. It’s pretty hard to compute a yield figure when one is still trying to come up with a number of admissions that … should look good.</p>
<p>Where did you guys get the yield rates of HY and P? Harvard officially said that theirs might exceed 76%, but no exact figure was given and I have not yet found a source with official Y and P figures.</p>
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<p>That article was mostly about enrollment of miniority. Admission stats wasn’t the focus. NU has been very slow in posting admission stats; the latest common data set is two years old; it would only make them look better if they keep it more current because last year’s stats were higher.</p>
<p>Class of 2014 Admissions Yields
Harvard = 76%
Stanford = 72.5%
MIT = 64%
Penn = 63%
Dartmouth = 55%
UNC = 53.3%
Cornell = 49%
Virginia = 49%
Williams = 44.3%
Wisconsin = 41%
UChicago = 39%
George Washington = 37.4%
Colorado College = 37%
Northwestern = 35%
Wesleyen = 35%
Smith = 34%
Iowa = 34%
Kenyon = 31%
Connecticut College = 31%
Lafayette = 29%
Whitman = 28%
SUNY (New Paltz) = 21% </p>
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<p>note: Yale and Princeton yields removed since the figures were from previous year (sorry about the mistake0</p>
<p>I haven’t seen the official figures yet, but the anecdotal info I am getting is that there were not too many taken off the waitlist, which would imply a high enrollment yield, and ND has usually always been above 50%, except for maybe one year. So expect Notre Dame to once again be among the top 10 for enrollment yield, above such schools as Cornell, Chicago, Northwestern and Williams, once again proving it to be one of the most elite and prestigious schools in the country</p>
<p>ND is a self-selected group, like BYU. Yield is typically high for self selected populations.</p>
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<p>Sam, I understand. My point was not really about the content of that article, but about the absence of press releases (or other verifiable sources) that might lift the veil on the admission data of this year (and perhaps last year.) It is because of such “omissions” that at least one outfit that follows such statistics is simply ignoring NU in its reports. </p>
<p>Why school officials decide to keep people in the dark is something for them to know and for us to speculata about. I’d say that the case of NU is surprising because the news seems to have been positive … if growing selectivity is positive that is. :)</p>
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<p>This mildcat is either a fool or a ■■■■■.</p>
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<p>It’d be tough not to “undersell” the fact that, year in and year out, NU loses 2/3rd of its admitted students to other schools. What’s the NU website supposed to sell? “Come to Northwestern. We’re the 3rd or 4th most selective Midwestern Ivy backup.”</p>
<p>lol a new member who just registered this month is calling sam lee a ■■■■■…this is what CC has come to.</p>
<p>Looks like someone else is a mildcat.</p>
<p>So how many CC accounts do you have? Why did you feel you needed to create another account? What are you afraid of? I like how you feel so insecure even behind the screen. I wonder if you enjoy the fact that your friends don’t know the real you.</p>
<p>You know you cannot support your dubious claim (which I pointed out) that “NU people don’t play marketing games” and that they “always undersell.” So you take refuge in meaningless non-sequiturs. Whatever, lil’ mildcat.</p>
<p>oooh, Johnnybegood likes that phrase “mildcat”. Wonder who would use that phrase repeatedly. An Ivy league elitist maybe?</p>
<p>News Flash:</p>
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<p>Princeton admissions officials have no explanation for the increased popularity of Princeton among high school students, except for maybe the reverse psychology used by the message board poster “German Car” known as the anti-Princeton ■■■■■ on College Confidential.</p>
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and if you believe the nonsense above, then you would also believe that Notre Dame is better than HYPSM as an undergraduate school as “shanka” continues to claim and Duke is better than Stanford overall as a University, as Duke student “lesdia” continues to claim…</p>
<p>“then you would also believe that Notre Dame is better than HYPSM as an undergraduate school as “shanka” continues to claim”</p>
<p>never said that. It hurts your credibility when you lie.</p>
<p>However, Notre Dame is ranked AHEAD of Harvard and MIT in quality of undergraduate teaching, which is why I said ND does not take a back seat to anyone in terms of quality of undergraduate education, including many of the Ivies. ND is ranked ahead of half the Ivy League in that category. I rest my case.</p>
<p>shanka I really have no problem copy/pasting your comments on this matter if you would like.</p>
<p>just let me know</p>
<p>This thread is for the seriously narcissistic and immature audience. Geeesh.</p>