<p>Basically stayed the same, in the high 30s. The final tally on last year’s season turned out to be 38.8%. That’s higher than it had been in the recent past. Not by a lot. The yield in the past 6-7 years had bumped around in the 36-38% range, with no unidirectional trend. For the class of 2012 it was around 38%, too, while for 2013 it was just under 37%. </p>
<p>The difference last year was probably a function of the fact that they accepted 300 or so more kids EA than in previous years, but the same number of students overall as the year before. The difference between the EA yield rate (reputed to be ~50%) and the RD yield rate (~25% if I am right about the EA rate) for that many kids would amount to about 2% of overall admissions. With the 2012 class (pre-dating Nondorf), they did something similar percentage-wise by accepting 200 fewer RD applicants than they had in the previous few years.</p>