Williams College Equivalents

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“Yield” = accepted students who actually enroll.

(Post #12 above shows yield for several schools–including Williams College–excluding ED admits.)

Highest overall yield (including ED, EA & RD admits = ALL ADMITS) among the most elite national universities is listed here:

  1. Stanford–82.1%

  2. Harvard–80.5%

  3. MIT–73.5%

  4. Yale–69%

  5. Princeton–68.3%

  6. Univ. of Pennsylvania–67.8%

  7. Univ. of Chicago–63.7%

  8. Notre Dame–56%

  9. Brown–55.8%

  10. Northwestern University–53%

  11. Cornell–52.3%

  12. Dartmouth College–51.2%

  13. Duke–50.2%

  14. Georgetown–48%

Columbia University is the only Ivy League school not on this US News list. Typically, Columbia’s yield is about 63%.

For selected elite LACs:

Pomona College–53.7%
Barnard College–51.1%
Williams College–46.4%
Amherst College–37%