<p>Hawkette,</p>
<p>Where is the USNWR yield data? I don’t see it on the site.</p>
<p>tenis,
Most publics will pull from an area much tighter than 400 miles. For example, in your Michigan, which is a pretty big state and which contributes 72% of the freshman class, cities like Midland (112 miles), Grand Rapids (132), Kalamazoo (99), and Detroit (43) are all within a relatively short drive of U Michigan. The same would be mostly true for prominent publics like U Virginia and W&M in Virginia and slightly less so for U North Carolina. California, of course, would be a little longer for some although I don’t know if the matriculation patterns follow much of a North-UCB, South-UCLA pattern.</p>
<p>ucb,
They give you the raw data of applications, acceptances and enrolled students. I calculate the yield.</p>
<p>I think hawkette’s point has nothing to do with geography and has to do with price-- while most students probably come from within 400 miles, that does not mean that they get a significantly reduced tuition to entice them to attend.</p>
<p>Yield and prestige are always tough because of regional differences.</p>
<p>If you used yield, then U of Pontank will rank first, because they admit anyone who applies. The yield, I would guess would be closed to 100%. This ranking thing is so dump. At the end of the day, you cannot eat prestige. It is what you made of your education that’s what count. Prestige is for the rich who has nothing better to do but compare who has the best longer dick.</p>
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No one I ever met had any interest in going to school in Chicago, so not knowing about U Chicago is understandable. They may have known about NU becuase it’s in a big sports league, but I doubt they would know that it’s good enough to be grouped with top schools.</p>