Fordham applications up for 21st consecutive year:

happy1
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:33:29 +0000

Dooddie - Looking at the list, I notice that many schools with low yields (including Fordham) have EA rather than ED (OK, exclude Harvard and such). Thinking about it, that makes sense. Schools with ED only get early applicants who are committed to their institution since they must attend if accepted (with rare exceptions). Schools that accept a lot of students ED (some schools take close to half their class ED) will almost by definition have higher yields since a large part of the class will have virtually a 100% yield. In contrast, schools with EA never get that type of yield from any group of students accepted.

Additionally, many people apply to one school ED and a few schools EA as back-ups, again reducing the yield of the EA schools. I’m guessing a colleges looks at many factors in deciding to do EA or ED, but ED should, in general, create higher yield statistics.

For these reasons, I don’t think that the yield statistics of EA and ED schools are really comparable (I didn’t go through the whole list to see which schools are EA or ED).

Fordham is a great school and the good news is that the people who attend are happy to be there.