Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT Cross-Admit Stats for Class 2012

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<p>Please provide info for which schools you were accepted and which school you accepted for those 5 schools.</p>

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<p>Harvard will have the highest matriculation rate…
Then Yale and Princeton…
Then Stanford…
Then MIT…</p>

<p>It’s the same every year.</p>

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<p>Emory may surprise you this year.</p>

<p>My apologies to those students who got into or will attend Emory. This was all in the sake of comedy.</p>

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<p>haha no offense taken!!!</p>

<p>From what I’ve heard, Emory doesn’t have a great yield %</p>

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<p>to answer the OP, out of those 5, I only applied to Stanford and MIT and got both. It’s a difficult choice, and I’d rather not say which one I will choose right now.</p>

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<p>Coolphreak</p>

<p>Thanks. Tell me when you have your decision. My son got into Yale and Stanford so far. I am waiting for Harvard and Princeton tonight. And I will let everyone know which one he is going to pick.</p>

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<p>i got into HP, MIT</p>

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<p>Got in Yale/Standford. Went to Stanford</p>

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<p>truazn8948532:</p>

<p>Stanford wins the Xadmit over Princeton – </p>

<p>For students planning to major in humanities (pp. 43-44), Yale and Stanford both beat Harvard. For Sciences and overall, Harvard wins.</p>

<p>[SSRN-A</a> Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities by Christopher Avery, Mark Glickman, Caroline Hoxby, Andrew Metrick](<a href=“http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105#PaperDownload]SSRN-A”>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105#PaperDownload)</p>

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<p>ewho – if you plan to be a proper robberbaron, you need to learn to spell the name of the school: Leland Stanford, Jr. University (comma mine).</p>

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<p>Stanford and Princeton going to Princeton</p>

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<p>Since the thread title asks for “stats” based on a voluntary response survey, I can’t resist posting my FAQ on such surveys: </p>

<p>VOLUNTARY RESPONSE POLLS </p>

<p>One professor of statistics, who is a co-author of a highly regarded AP statistics textbook, has tried to popularize the phrase that “voluntary response data are worthless” to go along with the phrase “correlation does not imply causation.” Other statistics teachers are gradually picking up this phrase.</p>

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<p>[Math</a> Forum Discussions](<a href=“http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tstart=36420]Math”>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tstart=36420)</p>

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<p>DunninLA, I put extra D in there for decision. :slight_smile: Tell me where did you go?</p>

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<p>tokenadult, it does not matter. We just want to know some of the facts…if we can get them.</p>

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<p>You’ve heard the story about the guys touching different parts of an elephant without seeing it, haven’t you? That’s the problem with knowing only “some” of the facts. </p>

<p>Colleges surely all do their own internal analysis of cross-admit results as best they can, but they don’t typically do a press release announcing the results of their analysis.</p>

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<p>tokenadult,</p>

<p>That is the problem. What we have here is better than we know nothing, right?</p>

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<p>No. I guess you didn’t read carefully what the professor of statistics said. Unless you know the nature of the bias in your sampling procedure, knowing a little can be WORSE than knowing nothing.</p>

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<p>Well, I am fully aware of the unfairness of the sampling, and I will try not to argue this on this thread. I don’t know what is the best way to get this information out. Maybe you have a way… just let me know. We are not going to publish the results on the New York Times, so don’t worry too much about it.</p>

<p>Just to provide more cases on this. I know a girl who got in Harvard, Yale and Princeton, she is going to Yale.</p>

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<p>From high school class of 2006, I was aware of two Harvard admits (at least) who preferred MIT, and one other who preferred Notre Dame. I draw no general conclusions whatever from anecdotes like that. I haven’t heard much local news yet about where the cross-admits in town have decided to enroll.</p>

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<p>Emory doesnt have a great yield- around 28% doing some calculation for the Class of 2009. The thing is Emory gets a lot of applicants from both the Northeast and the South. If a kid from the Northeast gets into HYP, he’s going there over Emory automatically…the same can’t be said for Duke and to some extent Rice. Those two schools have a lot more kids attending there that turned down HYP than Emory. If a kid’s from the South, he’s gonna go to Duke cuz its better, Rice because most consider it to be better, or Vandy because Vandy actually has sports and campus spirit.
Yield Rates for Class of 2009:
Rice- 37%
Duke- 43%
Vanderbilt-32%
Harvard-78%
Yale-70%
Princeton-68%
Stanford-67%
MIT-67%</p>