<p>You read the post title. What's going on with Yale's numbers? Why?</p>
<p>People were scared by last year's 8.9% admission rate...</p>
<p>Exactly. People are being more self selective, and perhaps all the people who aren't self selective only applied to Harvard.</p>
<p>Kids are more realistic these days. Harvard just seems safer than Yale (Sarcasm?)</p>
<p>When people think of the best university in the country, the uneducated will probably think of Harvard. I would assume that they get the most junk applications from people who figure that they will give it a shot just for the heck of it.</p>
<p>I applied to both H and P and not to Yale, but that's not to say that I didn't like what I saw in New Haven. However, just from looking at this board and speaking to graduates, Yale seemed to be a more exclusive university than either Harvard or Princeton. The 8.6% may have something to do with it, but I think Yale needs to reconstruct their image if they want more applicants next year.</p>
<p>I don't know about anyone here, but I don't know a single person that clearly is not suitable for Yale that applied just for the hell of it.</p>
<p>Anyone I know that has applied clearly has the potential to go there. Maybe it's different in other areas.</p>
<p>i think a large part of it is the construction...makes the campus a bit messy.</p>
<p>"I don't know about anyone here, but I don't know a single person that clearly is not suitable for Yale that applied just for the hell of it."</p>
<p>I do. But then that applies for almost any top university.</p>
<p>what do the lower applicant #s means for the people who did apply?</p>
<p>Not much, unless you can get more data about the people how did apply.</p>