"Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices

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<p>Here's an interesting chart that appeared in the NYT in 2006, entitled "Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices." The bottom line: In the battle for cross-admits, Harvard dominates (or at least it did as of 2006). </p>

<p>The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices</p>

<p>From the accompanying article:
"Among those who were admitted to both Harvard and Duke — sometimes called the Harvard of the South — and who attended one of the two, about 3 percent picked Duke, according to the economists’ statistical model. Only 11 percent chose Brown, perhaps the trendiest Ivy League university in recent years, over Harvard. Princeton and Stanford win only about 25 percent of their battles with Harvard. Yale gives the stiffest competition, winning about 35 percent of the time, which in politics would be considered a crushing landslide."
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Nice find! :)</p>

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<p>Most students choose the University of Phoenix, followed by Miami-Dade College. The total freshman enrollment at these two schools is more than the combined first-year classes at all the Ivies combined.</p>

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<p>The community college where I teach has 22,000 day students and classes capped at 25.</p>