Yield Rates

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Yield Rates for Class of 2014</p>

<p>The NYT blog has some figures:</p>

<p>Harvard: 76%
Dartmouth: 55%
Stanford: 72%
University of Pennsylvania: 63%
Cornell: 49%</p>

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<p>Looks like we’ll have to accept 50% of our class through ED to game the numbers like Penn now, too.</p>

<p>But seriously, who the f&(* cares?</p>

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<p>does that mean they will be going to the waitlist? Is it a low yeild? someone put it in perspective to cornell…</p>

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<p>Every year, Cornell’s yield rate is roughly 50%. </p>

<p>Cornell admitted 6678 people, with a 49% yield rate that’s 3272 students.
Last year’s entering class was 3221 students. So this gives you some idea of whether or not they will pull from the waitlist.</p>

<p>My guess? More than likely not.</p>

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<p>glad to see the tough economy and the cluster suicide phenomenon didn’t have an impact on the yield numbers.</p>

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<p>But what’s the counter-factual, Gomestar? Yields might have been otherwise at 60 percent due to the basketball team’s heroics.</p>

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<p>I don’t know much about the yields or pay any attention to them. But I am curious.</p>

<p>Are the other schools yields higher because they are better at picking out the applicants who are most likely to accept, therefore they can offer less spots?</p>

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<p>In Harvard and Yale’s case, it’s just that the win out in the “common admit battle”.</p>

<p>In Penn’s case, it’s just that Penn accepts a much higher percentage of its students ED.</p>

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<p>it’s called the “Harvard effect”, at least that is what we called it when I was in admissions. In HYP cases, it’s not that they are better at picking those most likely to enroll … rather the majority of students who apply to Harvard regardless of stats would never think twice about not enrolling anyways. Most of the time, Harvard will trump it all, followed by Y and P. </p>

<p>Also, I believe reading that the SAT averages have gone up for this admitted class at Cornell. When these go up, yield usually goes down (again, H effect), but the fact that it remains relatively flat is impressive.</p>

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<p>The other thing to take into account for everyone waiting to hear about CORNELL’S waitlist is that the yield absolutely varies by school/college within the university. </p>

<p>Last year, the Hotel School had some phenomenal yield like 86%. Hotel historically yields 72-85%.</p>

<p>This year? Don’t know yet …</p>

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<p>yields do vary by college, mostly because Hotel, ILR, COE, and AAP tend to be pretty self selected in the first place. CAS is usually on the lower side, mid-30’s I believe.</p>

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<p>CAS yield last year was 41%</p>