The Prestige Gap: Ivy Reject School?

kk19131
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:27:37 +0000

but “if Harvard calls offering a job, they take it”

-Sounds about right. But hey, there’s no shame in losing people to HARVARD of all places. Come on, it’s the most famous and richest school in the world.

Also, yield is a HORRIBLE criterion for judging how good a school is, let alone how wanted said school is - it’s pretty easy to inflate a yield - ask the University of Pennsylvania. I mean, JHU has a 33% yield, Chicago has a 30% yield, Caltech has a 37% yield (yet has, statistically, the strongest student population in the country), Duke a 42% yield, and Cornell a 47% yield. I really believe that the numbers have more to do with the nature of applicants and the fact that they tend to apply to several schools, even when they have very little intention of actually attending each school.