UPenn is better than Stanford ?

[ewho]

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Acceptance rate can’t be used to define selectivity. Roughly the same number of people are accepted every year, it’s just that more people apply every year. Acceptance rates reflect class size and popularity (popularity deriving from number of applicants and yield). But a school can’t “choose” to have a lower acceptance rate unless it cuts its class size.

True that a school can’t choose, but the students can choose not to come. The yield to admit ratio (YAR) makes more sense to determine the selectivity. For class of 2012,
Stanford has YAR= Yield/Admit = 71%/9%=7.89, while Penn’s number is 63%/17% = 3.71. Its yield includes a big chunk of 100% EA admits. Its yield would have been much lower if there were no EA.</p>