<p>UNC-Chapel Hill’s ratio works out to 1.55 (53% yield/34% admission rate)</p>
<p>@kwu I know this study well. Its data is from 1999, and is based on a regression constructed from data with 3250 students. This is a totally different concept. Call it YAR, or whatever you like. My point was that it was interesting.</p>
<p>That “revealed preference” study is most interesting, because it breaks down actual choices, eg, what percentage of students accepted to both H and Y choose H (or Y)</p>
<p>idler… I believe it breaks down actual THEORETICAL choices, not actual actual choices, if you get my meaning.</p>
<p>Here’s a yield that matters</p>
<p>" Large state institutions like the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, and Ohio State University ranked highly as well, as each awarded at least 10 degrees to CEOs on Fortune’s list. Wisconsin stood out among its state school peers, granting 17 degrees to the CEOs, which put the school fourth overall"</p>
<p>Ease of applying to a particular school would likely have an impact on these numbers.</p>
<p>A free application and no essay = broad spectrum of applicants: from over-qualified (no brainer safety) to under-qualified (obvious reach, but why not try?) and everything in between.</p>
<p>A higher application fee, multiple essays, interview and indepth application will weed out many applicants who are not going to spend the time and money to apply unless truly interested in the school. </p>
<p>Some of these application qualities can also promote a perceived impression of selectivity, or not.</p>
<p>Final COA will also factor into the yields.</p>
<p>Barrons, those large state schools produce 5x the number of alumni of most Ivies and 10-15x the number of most LACs. Unless they have 5x as many CEOs as the Ivies and 10-15X as many as the top LACs, they’re not keeping up with the Joneses.</p>
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<p>Very true. Consider all the Stanford students who are from west of the Rockies. We can assume that for some significant proportion of them, it wasn’t desirable to go > 1,000 miles away to college. Given that, their other options comparable to Stanford are very limited.</p>
<p>Similarly, a school like the U. of Nebraska enjoys a high yield rate. In Kansas, some in-state students who consider KU decide to go to K-State. In Iowa, some choose ISU over the U. of Iowa. If you’re wanting to pay in-state rates in Nebraska, what are your other options? UN-Omaha and Kearney aren’t going to put much of a dent in UNL’s yield.</p>
<p>The Ivy schools also pre-select for skills that might be very beneficial to a CEO while the state U’s take pretty much a broad group of students as that is their mandate. But a few standout year after year in producing leaders in many fields so you may feel free to just compare them among like schools. How many reject the Ivy schools to go to one of the schools mentioned? Yet the big schools can take what they get and do very good things which may be a lot more difficult than taking silk and making a silk slip out of it. All that requires is you don’t mess up the basic fabric. Not much value added there.</p>
<p>This ranking system is terribly flawed. </p>
<p>You need to consider that many students do not end up where they truly want to go simply not because of many factors (financial, distance, etc). I know plenty of people who forsake a Yale or MIT education for Harvey Mudd and Pomona because they didn’t want to go to East Coast or that money was a huge factor.
Location makes a huge difference as well. Would you take a prestigious university that is located at a terrible dump or a less prestigious one that is located in a bustling, famous area?</p>
<p>Take Duke University for example. It’s yield rate is abnormally low compared to its peers. Why? Souther bias? Location? The Lacrosse Incident also probably played an important role. The incident turned off many prospective students. This isn’t fair for the university. There are just too many things you can’t control.</p>
<p>I suspect UCLA’s yield will go much lower this year simply because of the UCLA’s white girl rant against Asians. Many Asians will be off-put by that sort of behavior and settle for Berkeley or even UCSD. </p>
<p>Take a look at my rankings based on prestige if you want a more standard outlook.</p>
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<p>I can see not wanting to go to the East Coast, but not the money part. It is hard to imagine that Pomona/Harvey Mudd would offer much more in financial aid than Yale/MIT.</p>
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<p>Yes, these are unfortunate incidents that sometimes sway the applicants to attend another college. UCLA had a higher level of applications for the Class of 2015 compared to the Class of 2014, yet its acceptance rate has increased by several percentage points from 22.69% to 25.28%, admitting about 2,500 more applicants.</p>
<p>I hope this doesn’t happen, but other incidents that have gotten the attention of potential applicants this year are the Cornell Cayuga Waters suicides and the public display of verbal attacks on women by the Yale Frat. Yale already had the bad publicity in the last few years from the murder of the graduate student in the labs.</p>