<p>Slightly lower than last year, unless "around 78%" is a statistically insignificant difference from "around 79.2%"</p>
<p>P value is 0.3647, so it's considered statistically insignificant.</p>
<p>Can you tell I had my AP Stats exam on Tuesday? >.></p>
<p>It's interesting that the loss of early action and the financial aid initiative didn't have a larger influence on the yield. But maybe they canceled each other out?</p>
<p>^Over 2000 i bet. Yale WL 1500 and Pton 2000. I bet Harvard has more.</p>
<p>Haha I was considering running a hypoth test as well. But I decided I might get virtually jumped. :)</p>
<p>That's quite a few kids off the waitlist
Wow.</p>
<p>Well I am the e-thug who invented the USRS...</p>
<p>"Should we handle this the christian way, I'll shoot you in your ****in face"</p>
<p>(why am I watching madtv again.....)</p>
<p>Wait, where are you getting these numbers?</p>
<p>this article Yale</a> Daily News - Admit rate falls to 8.3 percent</p>
<p>clear says that Yale offered 1052 WL spots. Not sure about Pton</p>
<p>That "around 78%" will go up as they take the 150-175 students off the waitlist.</p>
<p>(corrected from below comment) :)</p>
<p>even better</p>
<p>They're taking 150-175.</p>
<p>Does anyone know why Harvard's yield rate did not go up from last year but actually decreased a little, despite the generous financial initiative?</p>
<p>Of course, I'm not complaining about this potential for us wait-listed people. I'm just curious.</p>
<p>I believe that is because many competing schools also increased their financial aid amount.</p>
<p>Also, I think a lot of kids are not afraid to turn down Harvard for a "lesser" school that they prefer ...</p>
<p>Also, harvard eliminated SCEA, where its yield is around 90%. Perhaps SCEA + this initiative (or maybe if they had made the 120 - 180K percentage less than 10) would have driven the yield up into the high 80s...but this is really good news if you just look at their RA yield in past years being 70%.</p>
<p>Is anyone surprised that Harvard's yield is actually lower than last year despite having record low admit rates and the best financial aid in the world?</p>
<p>A lot of people were predicting 90%...</p>
<p>also, it says they're accepting 150-175 students off the waitlist this year!
Congrats guys!</p>
<p>Well, it's not that much different - not much difference between 79% and 78.5%.</p>
<p>u guys have to remember that the reported 78 percent yield can only result when assuming that 100 percent of the 150 wailistees accept the offer. So at this point w/o the waitlists, the yield is around 75-76 percent. Well its still damn high tho haha</p>
<p>It is very unlikely that 100 percent of the 150 waitlistees would accept the offer.</p>
<p>timeless: I don't understand. Then the reported yield is meaningless if they were to extrapolate the data. Why 78.5%? In fact, why not just say 1%? The 78.5% is clearly based on the number of original admits who accepted the admissions offer.</p>
<p>Ijmom: I agree with you on that. It is very unlikely that 100% of WL admits will take up the offer, but I think the yield of WL admits will be higher, simply due to the fact that if you remained on the waitlist, it's probably because you wanted to attend Harvard if given the chance.</p>