<p>Yes, if you are going to say their acceptance rate is artificially low, then you also have to say their yield is artificially low. Or as Ben says, they are both misleadingly low. Because the same strategy that creates the former also creates the latter. Tulane is doing what they are doing very purposefully, and this year’s class (despite the “abysmal” yield) is 130 students more than their target number. They wanted about 1500, 1630 matriculated. Because of this they are going to try and limit the class size to 1400 this cycle. The last 3 incoming classes have been the most academically talented in Tulane’s history, and right now Tulane’s average SAT scores (CR+M) place it 29th among national research universities. Therefore the admissions rate and yield are completely beside the point. Tulane knows that by going after Ivy caliber and similar students, that they are going to get turned down by most. But they get a number of them, enough to significantly improve the overall quality of the class. For example, this year Tulane has 2 Presidential Scholar winners in the freshman class, and there are only 144 in the whole country. That is the same number as Duke and Vandy, and two more than Emory. It is a successful methodology for getting some top students to come to Tulane who would not have considered it otherwise.</p>
<p>It is a good school. Northing amazing about it, but good academics, nice campus, etc. It isn’t a top school or an Ivy or anything, but it is good for what it is.</p>