<p>Don't misunderstand me. I am not anti-Harvard, I am trying to show that Byerly's 75% statistic is no sign that Harvard is better than Yale (I am not trying to show that Harvard is worse than Yale either, in case you decide to accuse me of that, too). For sure many, many of those 75% of cross-admits picking Harvard over Yale are picking it for reasons other than prestige. But the point is, Byerly has been lording that fact like it's proof that Harvard is so much better than Yale. It's not proof, because we can't know how many of those kids picked Harvard just because of some illusion of prestige, and how many picked it for other reasons. I didn't say that everyone who picks Harvard is a prestige-whore, I said the prestige-whores, and there may be any amount of them, I don't know, would end up at Harvard since according to Byerly's statistics and everything else he spouts, Harvard is more prestigious. </p>
<p>Does that clear it up?</p>