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<li> I think I was the one with the yield numbers. The past few years, Chicago’s yield has been about 36%. That is right in range with all of its non-Ivy competitors (and even some of its Ivy competitors), after you back out the yield-boosting effect of ED. (Example: when Princeton abandoned ED, its yield dropped 10 percentage points.) Only a handful of colleges have RD yields above 40%. For example, last time I looked Northwestern’s RD yield was about 34%, and Cornell’s 38%.</li>
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<p>The analysis is a little tricky, because Chicago probably does get a higher yield from its EA acceptees than from RD acceptees, so comparing Chicago’s overall rate to others’ RD-only rates is a little unfair. I think if you back out EA with a guessed-at 50% yield (which would imply that Chicago was filling half of its class with EA), you get about a 30% RD-only yield at Chicago. So it may be a little low on an apples-to-apples basis, but not by more than a few percentage points.</p>
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<li> The NBER revealed preference study published a few years ago had Harvard and Yale splitting cross-admits 60-40. But the data for that is now about 10 years old.</li>
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