How much does Yield affect your choices?

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<p>Swamy – your data is 100% no good.</p>

<p>Harvard’s yield is 81%, not the 11% you cite.</p>

<p>Stanford’s is 74%, not the 10% you cite.</p>

<p>Duke’s is 42%, not 10%.</p>

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<p>It’s all a matter of opinion. If you have visited the college and the D likes it, she should go no matter what the yield is.</p>

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<p>For colleges with low yield rate do they take a lot of people from the waitlist?</p>

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<p>They accept more students, knowing that a certain percentage will end up elsewhere. This does come back to bite them sometimes (more at public universities than private), as has can be seen in this thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/191039-unh-over-enrolled.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/191039-unh-over-enrolled.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This is the other side of low yield - the school with a low yield may historically be second choice (note, not last choice) for a significant number of students, but what happens when they all get wait listed at their top choice? Earlier this year I remember someone posting an article about dorm lounges being converted to rooms to sleep as many as 8 students. That could be an issue for a school with 12% yield. Just a 3% increase in yield would lead to 25% more students.</p>

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<p>Penn State.</p>

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<p>Some schools like CMU with bad financial aid will have low yield rate and that means it is expensive.</p>

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<p>Such an informative thread.</p>

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<p>Based on 314 private colleges that I looked at in the IPEDS database, the correlation between yield and graduation rate was only .22. So, if you use grad rate as the criterion for quality, yield is not a very good predictor of quality.</p>

<p>Furthermore, if you use SAT scores as the criterion for quality, the correlation with yield is again pretty low (.37). I arbitrarily used SAT math 75th percentile.</p>

<p>By the way, the correlation between admit rate and yield was not very high (-.31).
The correlation between grad rate and SAT, on the other hand, was .73…very high. SATs are a good predictor of graduation rates. But, this isn’t surprising.</p>

<p>I can post stats for the individual colleges if there is interest. Individual comparisons can be revealing.</p>