<p>"The high yield means that only a small number of students can be admitted from the waiting list this year."</p>
<p>"The Class of 2009 was selected from a record applicant pool of 22,796. It is quite possible that for the second time in Harvard's history, there will be more women than men in the entering class. At this time, women outnumber men - 814 to 813. The yield for women is 79.3 percent; for men, it is 77.8 percent."</p>
<p>... and this is true even though slightly more males thsan females were admitted!</p>
<p>So much for the "Summers controversy!"</p>
<p>any word on yale, princeton?</p>
<p>Perhaps tomorrow, or at least by the middle of next week.</p>
<p>The fact that Harvard will take so few from the WL will have an effect on the yield rate at its main "competitors" - who might otherwise lose a few admits to Harvard.</p>
<p>So you're saying that the yield rates of Yale and Princeton will be somewhat higher since they will lose less students who enrolled at Y or P but decided to go to H off from the waitlist? Yeah, but that is probably somewhat negated by the fact that Harvard did have a high yield rate, and many students already chose Harvard over Yale and Princeton, thus lowering their yield rates in the first stage.</p>
<p>Suburbian, I'm with you. I would think that if Harvard has a high
yield it would follow that Pton and Yale's yield rates are down.
Still looking forward to seeing if Pton's use of the common app affects
its yield and am counting on Byerly to get us all these stats first!</p>
<p>Byerly is good at that. :D</p>
<p>MIT overadmit again, didn't they?</p>
<p>I hear a rumor (via Harvard) that Yale may be oversubscribed - or at least that they will be very unlikely to take much of anybody from the waitlist.</p>
<p>Sounds like Harvard, Yale and MIT's yields are up and some are
oversubscribed. With each student filling out so many applications its
hard to believe all the top schools have such incredible yields. Anyone
know what happened at Stanford or Pton??</p>