<p>Apparently, 40 students were moved up from the wait list. And 39 accepted students chose to take a gap year.
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Our yield rate was just as high this year as it was last year I was particularly pleased to see this, given the smaller percentage of students we admitted through the early action process, and our continued admission of a larger proportion of high-achieving STEM candidates and a larger proportion of minority students, Quinlan said in an email.
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<p>Interestingly, he mentioned "a larger proportion of minority students". Do minority students tend to choose Yale's peer schools over Yale, even if they are not STEM candidates with offers from MIT? Or, is it true or a myth that minority students would be a lot more likely to choose H over Y than non-minority students?</p>
<p>I don’t think Y releases data on what schools were turned down by Minority matriculants. I don’t doubt that they cull this data when possible but it’d not be in their interest to release this info. Perhaps news of Y’s super FINAID is getting out there and they are simply winning the more head to head battles due to getting more apps from mid to low income families.</p>
<p>I think this is the first year that Princeton’s yield (68.7%) was higher than Yale’s (68.3). Yale’s dropped a tick, while Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton all had solid increases in yield (82%, 76.7%, 68,7% respectively)…</p>
<p>Benley, I think T26E4 is saying that Ys FA is super compared to most colleges; it’s on par with HPS and maybe a few others. I have seen in the past that some students have received less generous FA from Y than from HPorS. Y will often match peer schools if their offer is initially lower.</p>
<p>entomom, I think there’s more in T26E4’s post. I just didn’t quite get it and wanted a clarification. Who are “simply winning the more head to head battles due to getting more apps from mid to low income families.” and how was it related to “news of Y’s super FINAID is getting out there”?</p>
<p>I think high-performing STEM students and minority students are in high demand and thus are likely to have more choices than some other students, and that’s what they were referring to in terms of getting more of them this year.</p>
Specific to Yale though, I understand that at this point they can’t yet win over as many STEM cross-admits with peer schools for reasons we are all aware of. My question is, is it the same deal with minority cross-admits?</p>
<p>Specifics are hard to come by about URM cross-admits, but its not hard to figure our that there aren’t nearly “enough” really high-stats URMs for the most selective colleges, and thus that those students are likely to be in high demand–and we know that they are courted. I think Quinlan was saying that Yale was relatively successful this year in getting students in this category to choose Yale.</p>
<p>The best news is that the attempt to get urms and science students by admitting more of them did not sink the yield. So Y is accomplishing more than one goal at a time!</p>