<p>This is particularly impressive when you consider that this was the year Penn switched to the Common App, which usually makes the yield rate suffer.</p>
<p>We might have surpassed Princeton.</p>
<p>That Penn is so hot right now.</p>
<p>Yeah that's pretty impressive. Just another sign of how competitive it's getting.</p>
<p>This calls for a sexy party</p>
<p>where are you now, strawboy?!??!!?!</p>
<p>does its high yield of freshmen have a major impact on its transfer pool?</p>
<p>No, on years with a lower yield, the extra spots are filled up by taking people off the waitlist. Transfer pool won't be effected negatively.</p>
<p>Well its yield could be that high b/c more of the same people that got rejected from Princeton were accepted at Penn. 67% is really high though. Dartmouth's was only 53%. I wonder how the quality of the applicant pools differ, if at all.</p>
<p>Anyone have yield data from other Ivies? I'm curious.</p>
<p>Wow, didn't realize Penn's yield rate was that high. Even comparable to Stanford's on a normal year (waitlist bitterness.... jk!). Guess the dual degree options are more popular than I thought.</p>
<p>wow. WSJ reported today that princeton's yield rate dropped to 68%... almost there red and blue!</p>
<p>It'll be interesting to see what happens to Princeton's yield rate next year without ED.</p>
<p>When a school like Penn's yield comes close to Princeton's, you know there is something fishy going on- maybe it's because that Princeton doesn't create scholar groups and business programs out of the wazoo that end up creating a multi-tiered university with the normal CAS kid paying $45000 a year for what is essentially a state school education because no one cares about them</p>
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Poor little babies--no one to hold their hands. You speak from personal experience, I take it?</p>
<p>but they can still say they got an ivy league degree</p>
<p>We must rise in a Butlerian Jihad against those Princeton **gs</p>
<p>hags, that is</p>
<p>hags</p>
<p>"When a school like Penn's yield comes close to Princeton's, you know there is something fishy going on."</p>
<p>Nothing fishy going on , except for this - if you take 1/2 your class ED and ED has close to 100% yield, then for the 1/2 that is RD, the yield is much lower:</p>
<p>ED 1200 accepted, 1200 matriculate</p>
<p>RD 2400 accepted, 1200 matric. = 50% yield on RD.</p>
<p>Next year with no ED for Princeton, Penn will beat Princeton on yield - you can bet on it.</p>
<p>Yes, Penn is really STOOPID creating all those super attractive joint degree programs that are in high demand and have 80% yields. Penn became a "multi-tiered university" 125 years ago when they created Wharton. Maybe it's the other way around - maybe the CAS kids get to bask in the reflected glory of Wharton and the joint programs which they could never get into - if those picked up and moved to another school, would people still pay $46k to go to what was left?</p>
<p>Actually, Princeton's RD yield is estimated to be 52-54% this year (Class of 2011); for the past few years, it's been the lowest of the superelite schools (H, Y, S and M). The fact that Princeton had high yields at all was a combination of ED and aggressive yield protection by dinging applicants Princeton feared would go to H or Y. </p>
<p>Penn's RD yield is approx 50%, only a bit behind Princetons. Penn ranks fourth in the Ivies behind H, Y and P and ahead of B, C, D and Cornell.</p>
<p>percy--when i applied to SEAS ED, I had no idea about wharton...not that I cared. It was only before decisions came out did I see people applying to wharton just because it is number one. I never cared about getting a degree in business so I did not spend my time researching.i bet there would be people coming to penn even if there weren't joint degree programs and would pay 46K for their education. The truth is that there are other people in the world (unlike you...) who care about fitting into a college rather than just going to the one that is number 1 in rankings. </p>
<p>maybe the CAS kids get to bask in the reflected glory of Wharton and the joint programs which they could never get into - if those picked up and moved to another school, would people still pay $46k to go to what was left?</p>
<p>I bet there are many CAS students who have the talent to get into Wharton and the joint degree programs...they are just not interested in them. You will also notice that many people drop out of the joint degree programs and end up getting a normal business or liberal arts degree because the pressure is horrendous. M&T is a perfect example. Are those students also basking in the glory of wharton?</p>
<p>Wharton, whatever you may think, does not have the same name recognition as Harvard, Princeton, Yale. I did not know Wharton existed until I started watching the aprrentice. Go tell an average person, I got into Wharton...and they will be like "What?" but if you tell them I got into Harvard...that's another story. </p>
<p>Wharton is great but CAS kids are not basking off the glory of Wharton. There are stuck up idiots like you who try to show off that they got into a good school...and there are very few like you out their. It makes you seem snobbish and ignorant.</p>
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Penn ranks fourth in the Ivies behind H, Y and P and ahead of B, C, D and Cornell
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How can you explain the fact that it loses in cross-admit battles with every Ivy except for Cornell then? Its yield and and cross-admit rates do not match up at all. Someone is really gaming yield protection methods here.</p>
<p>hmm that's pretty interesting actually... dionysus do u have a link for the cross-admit data?</p>