Stanford vs Yale

bluedevilmike
Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:15:37 +0000

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Brown all report at 90%+. Unfortunately (so far as I know) they don’t publicly report these numbers, but like Stanford they share them with admitted students. I can vouch for Harvard’s numbers as of a few years ago (when I was waitlisted, not admitted). Don’t know about Columbia, Penn, or Dartmouth. Cornell is lower.

Committee letters from schools that give them are extremely beneficial. The fact that Stanford doesn’t do this is a major detriment.

The California thing is one reason Stanford’s rates are lower. The fact that they give horrible advice is also one reason. The fact that they don’t do committee letters is also another reason.