Any word on yield rate?

TheBanker
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:21:15 +0000

My hunch is that the yield is lower than expected. Certainly plausible considering the drop in applications this year (the Common App glitch doesn’t seem to explain such a large decline). Their strategy might be to quietly release the yield rate later on, instead of at the same time as other top privates. They are maybe trying to save face. I’d say the yield is in the high 50’s, marginally higher than class of 2017’s.

EDIT: A Facebook search shows that the class of 2018 page has 1,564 members. Some of these members are from the admissions office or are part of student government/whatever, but that still seems like a high number of members. It’s possible that they drastically overenrolled this year and are scrambling to get students to take a gap year and matriculate in 2019, since housing won’t be able to support them. Whatever the case, this is great news for the yield rate - we might be looking at mid/high 60’s?

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