<p>has yale announced yield for class of 2010 yet? seems harvard and princeton have already done so, thus assume they know what it is.</p>
<p>The admissions officers were probably calculating the yield during their retreat, so it should be made public any day now.</p>
<p>What r pton's and Harvard's?!</p>
<p>The numbers so far are preliminary.</p>
<p>Harvard, 80%
Princeton, 69%
MIT, 67%
Penn, 66%</p>
<p>more specifically:</p>
<p>harvard 79.7% per gazette, 79.8% per crimson
princeton 69.2%</p>
<p>Likely in the 73-75% range</p>
<p>Not if they take anyone from the wauitlist.</p>
<p>they've already taken several, if CC'ers are to be believed.</p>
<p>last year's initial numbers appeared in a YDN story dated sunday, may 15th, so we should know for sure very soon, perhaps mon.</p>
<p>There's 3 of us so far. I'm expecting more monday.</p>
<p>It is interesting that Yale has not announced their yield yet. In any case, I suspect that it was not that great if they were forced to go to their waitlist already. I personally find that this website tends to indicate that this is the greatest school on earth. Everyone is beyond happy with the school. I never read of anyone complaining of anything about the school. This seems highly unusual in that there are always people at every school with a beef. Secondly, while their admitted student site is great for interaction with other new students, it seems that even admissions officers are on this site talking to students even offering to help with homework. I just think that college students really don't need to be coddled this much. I mean Harvard doesn't really give a good whatever whether you decide to attend or not. They don't need to either. Everybody and their brother wants to go there. What is Yale hiding???</p>
<p>Not hiding.</p>
<p>I think they accepted fewer this year, anticipating taking more from their waitlist. Yale cannot afford to be overenrolled, as the housing is very tight as it is. They are being cautious. They guarantee housing for all who want it - but squeezing two kids into singles, and three into doubles makes for unhappy campers.
I think it's a healthy sign that they're going to the waitlist.
Beds for all! :)</p>
<p>And why wouldn't they go to it "already." It's getting late. Everyone should have sent in their deposits where they are going. I imagine Yale wants to get finished with enrollements by the end of the week.</p>
<p>wait so they already chose all the people who are gonna be taken off the waitlist and give the spots to those chosen as soon as they open?</p>
<p>We don't know if the waitlist is closed yet or not. It is getting late, though. I would expect the class to be complete very soon, if not already.</p>
<p>It takes a while even if the additional "stage 1" waitlist admittees are identified, because, in order to ensure a 100% yield at this stage, those identified have to be felt out by phone or letter, "tentatively" offered a slot, and be given a brief period to make up their mind to accept or reject the offer.</p>
<p>"Stage 2" which is 2 weeks away or so, involves the filling of slots opened up by people who accepted a waitlist "call" elsewhere. Whether slots will be filled for this reason depends on what class size they want to settle for.</p>
<p>I don't think Yale is trying to cover up anything. If the students were unhappy, the school wouldn't be able to cover that up, actually. It's not like Yale can stop students from going online and complaining/spreading bad word-of-mouth/whatever else. The fact that there is little complaint is, I think, indicative of the fact that Yale students are truly happy.</p>
<p>As for the admissions officer who was offering to help students with some physics problems, I don't think David had some ulterior motive. It's so obvious that he's a physics geek, and his offer was in response to the thread by the humanities prefrosh going "OMG, AP physics will keel me!!one1 Will Yale reject me now??" (Okay, so those prefrosh had better grammar, but I think my version is a better representative of the panic in the posts.)</p>
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David Reiman, the assistant director of undergraduate admissions at Yale University, said that while some letters from the more remote regions of the country have yet to arrive, the university is "right on track" to maintain a yield similar to last year's 73.1 percent.
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<p>Why is Yale then taking people off the waitlist, I wonder, when the school has already made it a goal not to overenroll this year?</p>
<p>For the Class of 2009, Yale admitted 1880 of whom 1323 matriculated. </p>
<p>That calculates to a yield rate of 70.37%.</p>
<p>Check the 2005-06 CDS form if you don't believe me.</p>
<p>The Yale public relations people make this stuff up out of whole cloth (probably quoting an early "projection" from last year, and then outrageously keep quoting their own press releases. They have been doing this for YEARS!</p>
<p>yale has not yet announced its yield for the class of 2010??? seems to me that based on today's date, they would know this number very well by now. after all, decisions are due in by may 1st. why haven't they made any announcement yet??? are they planning on including the admitted students from the waitlist in these numbers which they can't do???</p>
<p>I think this happens in an indirect way at some schools, as the closing date for matriculation decisions is "extended" on a case-by-case basis. If the matriculation number is announced too early, then there have to be a lot of explanations later about "late arriving mail", etc.</p>