Umich or WashU???

<p>Finance is another big consideration. I too got into honors. Mich honors for 20k beats WashU for 50k in my opinion. Afterall, this is for Bachelors. It all depends what you want to do with the degree.</p>

<p>Washu does not have a "very low" yield except in comparison to the HYP level of universities. Last figures I saw were that Washu had a yield of 32 percent, the same yield as Johns Hopkins, a highly regarded institution. UChicago had a yield not much higher at 34 percent and Northwestern's yield was also in the thirties, though higher at 38 percent. I'm not saying Washu's yield is something to brag about, only that it's not accurate to describe it out of context as a negative. Very few colleges have an impressively high yield, over 50 percent.</p>

<p>i dont know. but my sister went to washu and said it really wasnt worth it. the atmosphere really wasnt to her liking. the education is the same you can get anywhere else, from any other top school.</p>

<p>all in all though, its your choice.
but personally, i'd choose umich.
washu seems to concerned with getting donations and becoming richer.</p>

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Washu does not have a "very low" yield except in comparison to the HYP level of universities. Last figures I saw were that Washu had a yield of 32 percent, the same yield as Johns Hopkins, a highly regarded institution.

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You are right of course about WUSTL not having a "VERY low" yield at 32%. However, Alexandre's comment was in response to someone speculating WUSTL's acceptance rate at 6%. He correctly pointed out that WUSTL had to admit 4,500(4,634) students to fill a class of 1,400(1,470) ... which is equivalent to a 21% acceptance rate.</p>

<p>Jazzymom, WUSTL's yield rate is on the lower side if you compare it to other top 25 universities. Of course, WUSTL is not alone. Schools like Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Chicago and Johns Hopkins also have low yield rates, but those schools all share something in common; they aren't popular among undergraduate students. </p>

<p>I can agree that there isn't much of a difference between a 32% yield rate and a 36% yield rate. However, there is a significant difference between a 32% yield rate and a 40%+ yield rate.</p>

<p>For fairness' sake, I am leaving HYPSM out of the equation. We can both agree that those schools are in a unique position to attract a very high precentage of admitted students.</p>

<p>University of Pennsylvania: 67% yield
Brown University: 58% yield
Columbia University: 57% yield
University of Notre Dame: 57% yield
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 53% yield
Dartmouth College: 52% yield
University of Virginia: 52% yield
Cornell University: 47% yield
Georgetown University: 47% yield
Duke University: 43% yield
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: 43% yield
University of California-Berkeley: 42% yield
University of Southern California: 42% yield
University of California-Los Angeles:40% yield
Vanderbilt University: 39% yield
Northwestern University: 38% yield
California Institute of Technology: 37% yield
University of Chicago: 37% yield
Rice University: 36% yield
Johns Hopkins University: 32% yield
Washington University: 32% yield
Emory University: 30% yield
Carnegie Mellon University: 22% yield (yikes!)</p>