<p>none of the above.
COLUMBIA.! :)</p>
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Not that I’m suggesting that Yale is indeed worse than HPS, but are you subsequently suggesting that Harvard’s yield is so high because of how strong its academics are compared to YPS? Cross-admit battles and yield is a poor measure of anything but student choice itself. The assumption that it means anything is the assumption that students definitively know how good a school is, and if we assume that then there is no point of arguing any school’s level of quality; the argument is circularly proven.</p>
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<p>Student choice does not necessarily disregard academics. If the schools are academically similar, other factors come into play during the choice. But I feel like for most people finances and academics are the first stage of evaluation. If, then, Yale is not up to par academically, then there should be no reason for SO many students to choose Yale over the competition. I do not think this kind of general comparison requires that people know definitively how a good a school is; I think most people have a general impression that is sufficient to make such a comparison.</p>
<p>Also, I am not arguing that yield correlates exactly to academic strength, simply that I have a hard time believing Yale is academically mediocre in comparison to HPS based on student choice.</p>
<p>and Condi!!</p>