<p>The rough final Admissions numbers for the College's class of 2011 are in, and the most evident trend is the continued surge of applicants to Middlebury with a record high admissions yield of 47 percent.</p>
<p>Currently, the admissions yield stands at about 47 percent. The number indicates those who plan to matriculate to the College after receiving an offer to enroll here. The yield is much higher in admission terms than the recent projected yields of 44 percent, Clagett explained. </p>
<p>"It's record-making for Middlebury College," Clagett said. "The highest [yield] in at least a decade."</p>
<p>But the yield cannot be considered without examining the percentage of students accepted ED - i.e., a school with an ED rate of 50% of the incoming class will, all else being equal, have a significantly higher yield than a school whose ED students make up 25% of the class.</p>
<p>I believe it was around 23%. It disgusts me that Middlebury manipulates their admissions data in order to appear to be more selective than they actually are. Even with all of the admission office's games, they are well behind Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Amherst and Bowdoin in terms of selectivity.</p>
<p>How exactly do they manipulate their admissions data, darnshorty?</p>
<p>Putting aside the fact that you pulled that barely intelligble statement out of your ass, they actually significantly raise their acceptance rates with the unnecessary February admits.</p>
<p>midd accepted like 3 out of 600 transfers this year--that's not the point; and no, this always comes up, but middlebury does NOT manipulate their admissions data.</p>
<p>darnshorty's just upset that Middlebury rocketed past Pomona in the last USNWR ranking, despite the fact that Midd's SAT scores were reported for all students, not just those who submitted them for evaluation.</p>
<p>btw, to answer a question posed above, Williams' yield is currently 43.9% and Bowdoin is at 42.5%.</p>
<p>Bowdoin though did have a overall 18.5% acceptance rate this year witha 15% acceptance rate for regular decision. It is crazy getting into any of these schools.</p>
<p>I think Middlebury used to manipulate their data as the reported SAT went from 1430 to 1349 in one year, but think they are legit now. Bowdoin's reported SAT avg is probably ~ 30 points higher than actual since only 82% of students submit scores. It looks like Middlebury took the tact of accepting more people than they expected to come, hence 23% acceptance and 47% yield vs Bowdoin's 18% acceptance rate and much lower yield when both schools were 22% admit, 42% yield last year.</p>
<p>Bowdoin's target class is 475 with 470 already committed. That's not going to change its admit rate much. They may not even go to the waitlist till summer melt and the % of the melt is pretty much the same for all these schools.</p>