<p>I thought this data was interesting so I thought I would share it...For those who don't know, the Ivy League consists of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. The statistics are from Princeton Review.</p>
<p>TOTALS:</p>
<p>13812 students enroll
24095 students accepted
183808 applicants</p>
<p>13% acceptance rate overall
57% yield
SAT range: 1340-1540
94% Top 10th of High School Class</p>
<p>This data takes into account school size...i.e. Cornell will have the greatest impact on the overall data because it is the largest school and Dartmouth with have the least impact because it is the smallest. For example, the SAT scores were not just averaged as if each school had the same number of students, but the total enrolled students at a given single institution were multiplied by the 25th or 75th percentile SAT score for each school and the data was combined for all eight schools and then divided by the total number of enrolled students at all Ivy League institutions, etc.</p>
<p>I thought it was interesting that the average Ivy League student is likely to have slightly better stats than the typical Stanford student according to this data.</p>
<p>Stanford data:</p>
<p>SAT Range: 1330-1540
92% in Top 10th of High School Class</p>
<p>However, Stanford outperforms in acceptance rate and yield in the same year...</p>
<p>Ivy SAT Range: 1340-1540
Stanford SAT Range: 1330-1540</p>
<p>94% in Top 10 vs. 92%</p>
<p>^I would call that a tie. Stanford is also just one school compared to eight Ivy League schools so I think its hard to accurately compare the two in terms of stats and acceptance/yield percentages.</p>
<p>I did say "slightly." I think the expectation would be for Stanford students to have better stats than the average Ivy League student and that just isn't the case. In fact, the opposite is true. That was my point. I don't know what makes it so hard to accurately compare the two.</p>
<p>Only two schools do better than the Ivy League as a whole in the majority of these five criteria: yield, acceptance rate, SAT range, % top 10% of high school class, and number of applicants:</p>
<p>While the Ivy League is an athletic conference, it is not a singular institution. It is composed of eight different academic institutions with different admissions offices and academic programs. Although both members of the Ivy League, Cornell and Dartmouth are very different schools. While they are all great schools with many overlaps, I don't think it's fair to compare a compilation of eight different schools to one institution. </p>
<p>Your observation, be it hair-splitting and limited, is interesting nonetheless. </p>
<p>P.S. I chuckled when I saw "average" and "typical" in front of Ivy League and Stanford students. ;)</p>
<p>it would be interesting to see the yield for the ivies overall if you didn't count those who turned down one ivy for another. or in other words, if you took all those that were accepted to one or more ivy league schools and looked at how many of those students chose to attend an ivy. that way, the ivies aren't negatively affected by those that get accepted to multiple ivy league schools and, obviously, are going to have to turn some of them down in favor of another.</p>