<p>arg, i was about to post this.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see if this record falls in a few hours... Yale seems to have undercut Harvard this year (9.3%). I figured that Columbia released their stats yesterday to get the limelight of a sub-10% acceptance rate to themselves for a little while. Good marketing move.</p>
<p>how do they figure in that Harvard extended its deadline this year?</p>
<p>Yale over admitted last year, so this year they cut the class by 50. That accounts for just about all of the change.</p>
<p>you know, i saw the one about columbia admits record low, and harvard admits record low etc. and i was wondering, isn't it a good thing? like happy news for the university. why do they have to put it like that? as if they were admitting to a mistake. how about "yale announce srecord low"?</p>
<p>and then i realised admits as in admittance. hahaha. i have had too much sleepless nights over univeristy stuff, that my brain has decided to not function properly anymore</p>
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"Yale has been an extremely strong undergraduate program for many years," Levin said. "It takes time for a reputation to spread, but I think we've seen a remarkable change in the external perception of the quality of Yale College."
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<p>And here I was thinking that Yale had been universally recognized as one of the world's greatest universities for centuries. Silly me.</p>
<p>In fact, Yale has utilized several admissions strategies in the last 5 years or so to vault from a chronic 4th place finisher in yield rate to second behind only Harvard - moving past Princeton and Stanford in the process.</p>
<p>The move to SCEA was a masterstroke, particularly since Levin simultaneously succeeded in persuading Harvard - against its best interests - to make the same move. Yale just couldn't get the necessary "diversity" from its small ED pool.</p>
<p>As a result, Yale doubled the size of its early pool, from which it has filled a record fraction of the class, and simultaneously succeeded in reducing the size of the common admit pool with Harvard, from which it has always lost the lion's share. It also benefitted from an overall 15% increase in apps last year due to belated adoption of the common app.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Princeton was caught flatfooted with Hargadon's departure, and stubbornly stuck to binding ED out of fear that the yield rate would suffer. The opposite result occurred, as Yale and Stanford benefitted from larger early pools, and Princeton's apps dropped. So Princeton took a yield hit anyway, dropping from 74% to 66-67% - lowest in the HYPS group.</p>
<p>Damn Early Action crap.</p>
<p>the most popular kid in class is not always the brightest kid in class... different people measure best by different yardsticks..... plenty of people apply to only Yale and not H or P! different schools have different methods of playing the game, some extend their deadlines to a select group, etc.</p>
<p>Yale, Harvard, Princeton, infact, all the Ivies, and about another couple of hundred schools are doing a great job!</p>
<p>When I visited, all three schools seemed VERY different in character. Yale stood out the most for me (happy students, seemingly laid back atmosphere), which is why I applied only to it and not to Princeton (even though the Princeton admissions office sent me an application with fee waiver late in the app season). However, after getting rejected from Yale I feel like maybe I should've applied to Princeton. Oh well.</p>
<p>This is the 2nd time in 3 years Yale has been the most selective Ivy.</p>
<p>It's not a matter of strategy, it's that Yale easily has the strongest undergraduate program in the country. This year, Yale students won 3 Rhodes and 4 Marshall Scholarships - more than the rest of the Ivy League schools, combined. No other Ivy won more than 1 Rhodes or more than 2 Marshalls.</p>
<p>Just because Yale has the lowest admission rate, does not mean it is the most selective. Selectivity also reflects the quality of the applicants. As many know, Caltech is not among the most selective colleges according to percent admitted, but anyone who takes that as a sign that it is "easier" to get into Caltech is making a BIG mistake. My guess is that Harvard applicants include a larger number of the strongest candidates than the Yale pool.</p>
<p>Correction - Yale actually won 3 Rhodes and 5 Marshall scholarships (one of the Marshall winners was so good, he actually turned down a Marshall for a Rhodes). Harvard only won one of these coveted awards.</p>
<p>Final Score: Yale 8, Harvard 1</p>
<p>Oh how I wish that I was a Native American living in Montana.</p>
<p>Before "Poster X" pees in his pants about Rhodes, Marshall etc numbers THIS year vs - for example - LAST year etc, perhaps a little perspective is in order:</p>
<p>here's the latest version of that chart:</p>
<p>... showing Harvard with more Rhodes ... and more Marshalls ... than Yale and Princeton COMBINED!</p>
<p>"there you go, living in the past again."</p>
<p>Past is prologue, scottie. </p>
<p>And yet again you evaded telling us which "eating club" you belong to. Will we just have to keep asking and asking, or are you going to answer?</p>