<p>So what are you guys betting it will be? Less than 7%?</p>
<p>You’re actually asking about admission rate, not yield, correct? (Yield is the % of admitted students who matriculate. Stanford’s yield rate has exceeded 70% for years.) Predicted admission rate among all RD applicants will probably be in the neighborhood of 5%, assuming that the overall number of applicants is siimilar to recent years, as expected. (The deferred applicants within the RD pool tend to have somewhat better chances than regular RD applicants, but not by much.) So, if the foregoing is correct, the overall admission rate would remain at about 7%, blending the rates proportionately between the REA and RD pools.</p>
<p>Yeah, I meant acceptance rate. Actually I think I had posted a comment about yields just before so that might explain it.</p>
<p>And how much of the difference in EA/RD rates is simply the result of having a better pool of EA applicants?</p>