Love Thee Notre Dame

aristophanes
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:12:03 +0000

I happened upon this list of yield rankings. It reinforces what Getty59 was explaining to MiPerson: that so many Notre Dame applicants have suitable qualifications that the incoming class would be well-qualified even if the number of applicants decreased considerably.

Thursday, August 28, 2008
2007 SAT Weighted Yield Rankings
R1–ranked by the SATed yield: yield*(SAT25%+SAT75%)/2
R2-- ranked by yield

R1 R2 School

1 1 Harvard
2 2 Yale
3 4 MIT
4 3 Stanford
5 5 Princeton
6 6 Penn
7 8 Columbia
8 10 Brown
9 9 Notre Dame
10 7 U Florida
11 14 Dartmouth
12 11 UNC Chapel Hill
13 13 UVA
14 12 UT Austin
15 16 Georgetown
16 15 Cornell
17 19 Duke
18 26 CalTech
19 21 Georgia Tech
20 17 U Washington
21 25 Vanderbilt
22 23 UC Berkeley
23 24 NYU
24 30 Chicago
25 33 WUSTL
26 29 William & Mary
27 28 Wake Forest
28 27 UCLA
29 32 Rice
30 34 Northwestern
31 31 USC
32 35 Johns Hopkins
33 36 Tufts
34 39 Emory
35 38 Lehigh
36 40 Boston College
37 37 Penn State
38 42 Brandeis
39 41 Syracuse
40 43 RPI
41 45 Carnegie Mellon
42 46 U Rochester
43 44 UC Davis
44 48 Case Western
45 47 UC San Diego
46 49 UC Irvine
47 50 UC Santa Barbara
48 18 UIUC *
49 20 Michigan *
50 22 Wisconsin-Madison *


Disregard UIUC, Michigan and Wisconsin since they don’t provide SAT scores.


The higher the rankings, the harder to get in by just relying on high SAT scores. For example, it is much easier to get in JHU than WUSTL when you have the same SAT scores, even though by yield rankings they are about the same; getting in Cornell and Duke is about the same, rather than a relative large gap by yield rankings. You have to compare similar schools. It will not work to compare CalTech and Duke.
Posted by Mathacle.com at 6:10 AM
Labels: College Admissions