<p>Oh wow, I completely overlooked the announcement on the site.</p>
<p>Damn..</p>
<p>BMWDAN13: You can't exactly use recent years' yields for your calculations of harvard and princeton because with early decision their yield is higher (unless when figuring yeild it is for regular decision which i am not sure, so if that is true then disregard this all). Anyway, without the early decision this year, they are not guaranteed that those students will enroll (lowering yeidl), so they will need to accept more due to a lower yield.</p>
<p>However, these schools' yeilds are so damn high anyway they don't really need the early decision because if you get accepted then you will attend. The only people that turn down HYP are turning them down for eachother, financial aid reasons (less the case this year), MIT, CalTech or Stanford if they like the weather or want to be closer to home), Wharton if they are for business, another ivy, and maybe an occasional Chicago or LA college.</p>
<p>chicagoboy: I believe Princeton had ED last year (haha, that could be taken the wrong way) and Harvard has traditionally had EA. The yields are going to change this year, but it's the bets information I had available. Those calculations aren't set in stone, but they should provide an estimate that is reasonably correct.</p>
<p>You're right about yields, too. One thing I always wondered: P's yield is 69%, Y's is 70%, and H's is 80%. It seems like there can't be many cross admits with such high yields all across the board, but perhaps people don't apply to all three schools as much as I think they do (that'll change this year, no doubt). Does anyone have info on cross admits?</p>
<p>Just look at the differences between the three in location alone will tell you how they really aren't all that alike in feel. Princeton-suburban, Yale-smaller city, and Harvard-smack dab in the middle of Boston.</p>