<p>Yeah the yield in the West is much higher than the 60%+ I wrote, but for some reason that 35% number stands out really strong in my head. I’ll go try to see where I found it (it may have been from another thread where someone was just making up numbers).</p>
<p>I don’t really agree with the time argument. Harvard is about a 4 hr drive, while Chicago is less than a 2 hr plane trip. However, most NY students would see Harvard as the easier trip. My sis goes to school in Boston, and it just feels good to know whenever we feel like it we can make a family trip up to see her. Also there’s the benefit of knowing you can bring everything you’ll ever need for school (as long as your car is big enough,of course). Try doing that on a plane. You say that a plane ticket is less than $300, but close knit families will probably want to bring the entire family for the first time you move in. So that first trip will cost about a grand or more depending on how many siblings you have.</p>
<p>I would think most east coast students who like Stanford and HYP almost equally would choose the 7 hr drive over the 6 hr plane trip. Besides if the plane trip itself is 6 hrs, it’ll be 8 or more hours from the time you left your house to when you arrive on campus. I’d love to go to Stanford, I’m just trying to rationalize why Stanford would play admission games with East Coast students, although I doubt that they are.</p>