chicagoboy12

munchkin - actually, for regular decision (previous to this year) MORE than 1 in 4 have turned down harvard. when they had early decision they were getting 100% yield from early, and so there would need to be a much lower yield for regular decision to bring it down from 100% to the 77% it used to be.

h-bomber

False, Harvard has never had early decision. We had early action single choice. This means that it was NON-binding, and that everyone at Harvard chose to come to Harvard (presumably over other schools). I chose Harvard over Princeton and Yale, as did many of my friends (including one from Erie). Stop trolling.

tokenadult

You need to do some serious fact-checking before you post. What are your sources for these incredible assertions?

doctordestiny

Fox News is my guess.

guitars101

chicagoboy please keep facts correct or don't post. People like myself are seriously looking for help and answers. I'm a parent of a first time college student and I don't need you to give me untrue info.

I appreciate all the correct info I have rec'vd so far and I hope to help others as well.

Jen98

I can't speak for Princeton as i didn't even apply there, but Yale, at least, hasn't quite matched Harvard on the financial aid front, from what I've heard from acquaintances. Personally, Yale was asking about twice as much from my family as Harvard was.

It seems odd to me that Yale would be beating Harvard's yield given that Harvard had more applications this year...

Poupoupidou

Yeah I wouldn't understand Yale's yield being higher than Harvard's.

cc2

>>People like myself are seriously looking for help and answers<<
guitars - what kind of help and answers you are looking for in this thread after the decision time .

Hanna

"Yeah I wouldn't understand Yale's yield being higher than Harvard's."

I think that it's possible, though unlikely, because offering SCEA allows a school to predict yield more accurately. The more you take from the EA pool (whether in December or in April), the higher the yield is likely to be.

munchkin3590

The thing with predicting yeild... everyone seems to be predicting yeild based on, "Everyone I know who got into both is going to (insert either H or Y here) so their yeild will be higher!"

Making huge predictions about what literally thousands of people will do, based of conversations with 5 or 6 individuals max, is ridiculous, to say the least.

Bottom line is, all this speculation is getting silly.

tokenadult

Let's wait for the official yield figures from each college.

chicagoboy12

ok simply because i made the mistake of saying harvard had early decision (like i said, i never applied, was not interested), does not mean i am a troll and am lying. i think some of you are getting a little mad that a non-harvard student is doubting the greatness of the almighty harvard that you all are so thrilled to be attending.

you picked out a small point, that i mistakenly said harvard had ED, and immediately attacked that one point, trying to remove all validation of my post. even so, my point STILL stands that almost 1 in 4 turn down harvard, whether or not that puts a dent into anyones ego.

munchkin3590

No, sorry, your point does NOT still stand. In case you missed it, that was shot down as well. Harvard's yeild is higher that 75%.

If you never applied and you weren't interested in Harvard, then how do you think you know so much about it? More importantly, why do you even care?

piccolojunior

Lolowned.

Yeah harvard's yield is about 80% every year...you can say 1 in 5 turn it down, but what other school can that be said about?

susan4

An article I read somewhere said that Harvard’s overall yield was close to 80% for last couple of years. The yield from its SCEA was about 90% and from the regular round was approximately 70%.

Harvard has over 27,000 applicants this year with a class size of 1600-1700. Yale has over 22,000 applicants with a class size of 1200-1300. Harvard announced its FA changes before application dateline, which certainly attracted more last minute applicants. Yale and Stanford announced their FA changes after application dateline. Among the cross admitted students (H and Y), some got better FA from H, some better deal from Y, but generally comparable. When I went to visit some schools with my D, I met a cross-admitted student's parents, who got better FA from Y (one thousand dollars more per year, very negligible amount of difference).