OOS Students and the Public State Universities

GoBlue81
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:07:02 +0000

at most private elites, like Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Northwestern, Penn, Rice, Vanderbilt and WUSTL etc…, a significant portion of their class is made up of Early Decision applicants… Obviously, it would be unfair to compare yield rates, or make assumptions on cross-admit rates between schools that have ED options… and schools that do not…

Most universities do not publish the yield rates for regular admits, but it is fair to assume that regular admit yield rates at universites that have ED options will be significantly lower than their overall yield.

That’s a good point. I looked up the Class of 2012 ED/RD admission data from the following schools’ website and back calculated the RD yields:

School: RD yield (total yield)

Penn: 47.4% (62.9%)
Columbia: 44.6% (59.1%)
Dartmouth: 38.0% (49.2%)
Northwestern: 25.6% (31.7%)
Duke: 33.5% (40.8%)
Vanderbilt: 27.6% (36.6%)