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<p>Sometimes, but not necessarily. The yield rate is often influenced by how many likely competitors there are for the same applicants. The U. of Nebraska example above is a good one. Iowa loses some of its admits to Iowa State; Kansas loses some to Kansas State. There is no Nebraska State, and the kind of student who wants to apply to Nebraska isn’t likely to be courted away by Nebraska-Kearney or Nebraska-Omaha.</p>
<p>In Georgia, Augusta State University has a surprisingly high yield rate - around 50%. It’s a perfectly good state U for its local population, but not particularly distinctive, and that’s why its yield rate is so high. Most of its applicants come from its part of the state. There aren’t a lot of reasons for it to draw from the rest of the state. And the type of student who applies to UGA doesn’t typically want to choose ASU instead. So the ASU applicant pool is full of relatively local people who want to stay close to home and aren’t looking to be at UGA or Georgia Tech. ASU has a big yield because its the only option for many of those applicants.</p>
<p>And then there’s BYU . . . BYU is jumping up and down and waiving their arms to proclaim themselves “The Most Popular University in America.” Why? Their yield was tops in the country this year. OK, well one possibility is that they are indeed so fantastically popular that kids from coast to coast just can’t wait to turn HYPMS down once they get accepted to BYU. Or maybe it’s something else . . . let’s see - would there be any other reason that students who apply and get accepted at BYU don’t intend to go to college anywhere else? :rolleyes:</p>