DARTMOUTH admits 2,149 of 12,615 applicants for '09

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<p>About a 17% admit rate, anticipating an overall yield rate of around 50%, and an RD yield rate of arounf 43%.</p>

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<p>Can colleges factor in ED admits into the yield rate? It’s not really a choice… they have to go and the yield is 100%.</p>

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<p>Thus the quote “RD yield rate”…</p>

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<p>I know, but I was talking about the overall yield rate. I know how it’s done, it just doesn’t make sense to me to include people that have no choice but to matriculate.</p>

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<p>Well, cynical as it may seem, that’s the point of ED, isn’t it? To set up certain standards for a class by accepting the high stats kids early, and to boost yield rate and thus ranking on USNews.</p>

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<p>newt, I don’t understand your point. Yield rate is about how many people commit to x school. Whether or not people know they want to commit to x school before they know they’ve been accepted (ed) or after they have been accepted (rd) seems irrelevant, unless commitment always means one side, the same side, commits before the other–to a school, a political or social group or to a partner.</p>

<p>Yield is yield; you may not like ed, but those are real students committing to a real school. And thus they are part of the yield of that school—there are no angels on the head of a pin here, it is pretty straight forward.</p>

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<p>All of these numbers are conveniently worse than Harvard’s, I think that’s all that matters…</p>

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<p>Xanatos,</p>

<p>which numbers are you referring to? the number of admitted students or the number of admitted students who, upon graduation, will complain about their experience at x college (Harvard, say) as having been a miserable drag on the best years of their lives?</p>

<p>“Harvard students are less satisfied with their undergraduate educations than the students at almost all of the other COFHE schools,” according to the memo, dated October 2004.”
“I think we have to concede that we are letting our students down,” said Lawrence Buell, an English professor and former dean of undergraduate education. “Our standard is that Harvard shoots to be the very best. If it shoots to be the very best in terms of research productivity and the stature of its faculty, why should it not shoot to be the very best in terms of the quality of the education that it delivers?”
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<p>Clearly you didn’t detect the sarcasm in my post…</p>

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<p>Hmmm… a bit SENSITIVE, are’t we?</p>

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<p>I agree… the irrelevant Harvard-bashing was uncalled for.</p>

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<p>imagine that, people visiting the dartmouth forum standing up for harvard in the dartmouth forum, Byerly+raven.</p>

<p>or, even more surprisingly, shocking really, people criticizing harvard in the dartmouth forum…shocking…just shocking! How dare they?! And especially qouting Harvard’s own former dean of undergraduate education…whyyyy youuuuu (does a Three Stooges imitation)!!</p>

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<p>The exact numbers are 16.8% acceptance rate overall, 12% acceptance rate for RD applicants</p>

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<p>hmm high rates</p>