| "So, wasn't I correct with 79% to begin with?"
you "began" with this:
"And piccolojunior - Brigham Young and Harvard actually tied last year with a yield of 79%"
and no, you were not correct. (pretty much as you have been universally incorrect) LAST year's yield was 79.2%. The year before, according to last year's Crimson, it was 79.8%.
"In percentage terms, this year's 79.2 percent admissions yield matches up with last year's figure of 79.8 percent, continuing to hover near 80 percent as it has for the past few years, according to Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67."
The 79% figure that you cite for Harvard and BY comes from the USNWR study:
"So which colleges do students really want to go to? One way to find out is to look at a school’s yield, the percentage of applicants accepted by a university who end up enrolling at that institution in the fall. The figures in this table are from the fall 2006 entering class and show the admit yield and overall acceptance rate. ...
U.S. News Rank School Acceptance Rate Yield
79 Brigham Young University—Provo (UT) 70% 79%
2 Harvard University (MA) 9% 79%
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