Think Tank Ranks Schools

Byerly
Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:11:50 +0000

So you are limiting the notion of “selectivity” to acceptance rate? Median SAT scores, and yield rate, don’t count?

And Yale’s acceptance rate was actually 10.1% for the Class of 2008, (with 1,958 admits) if you don’t count incompletes and withdrawns as “applications”.

That 9.9% number was an early figure they (understandably) never bothered to adjust when a few applications melted away and a few more were admitted over the summer to offset “melt.”