We live in a suburb about 40 minutes from Yale and every year, 10 to 15 top students apply to both Yale and Harvard. Naviance shows that over the past 8 years, Harvard acceptances are more than twice than that of Yale. Is Yale “discriminating” against the local applicant? I don’t know. But according to Naviance, it does seem like it is a better bet to apply to Harvard than to Yale from our suburb.
Yale encourages kids from Bridgeport, New Haven, West Haven, Milford to apply and I think they do a decent job of cultivating local talent.
If you live in New Canaan or Darien, you aren’t going to get points for being local as much as a Yale-worthy applicant from New Haven. That’s reality.
@blossom I totally agree.
@arsenalozil Both H and Y have a town gown relationship with the town they are located at so they tend to admit more from this defined local pool. Outside it however even close I assume it just “becomes” part of the state or area. Yale has a smaller undergraduate student body than Harvard (until now) so that may be why?
Yale’s student body is a tad smaller than H but definitely not on a scale of 2 to 1. The Naviance data could be a blip or a coincidence but it also might not.
Well, at any moment they could decide they are bored with yet-another-rich-suburbanite and decide to turn their attention to the kid applying from the Wyoming countryside or the LA barrio, so I would never assume that past trends are indicative of future performance at such a micro level.