<p>dartmouth reports a yield of about 50% for the class of 2009. is there any site you can visit to determine where those students who turned down admission to dartmouth wound up matriculating.</p>
<p>Not that I have ever heard of…it would be hard to assemble the data and the reliability would be suspect.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, like most colleges, asks you to let them know what college you are choosing to attend instead of them. But I would imagine the response on that isn’t always high. Still, I would imagine the college does have that data in their office, they just don’t release it.</p>
<p>Richard Nesbitt, Dean of admissions at Williams stated the following in the Williams Record regarding the reasons students turn down Williams </p>
<p>for the class of 2008 he stated:</p>
<p>*The biggest overlap of admitted students is with Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Dartmouth the usual suspects, he said. Going head-to-head with places like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, if we get 15 percent of those kids, we are actually doing pretty well. Whereas with Dartmouth and Amherst, we are doing well if we split students 50-50. </p>
<p>While Nesbitt said the Colleges number one ranking from the U.S. News and World Report may have had an effect on the number of applicants, he does not expect it to affect yield dramatically. </p>
<p>If we can get people to visit Williams after they have been admitted, then we have a much better chance of yielding them, he said. Nesbitt admitted students biggest hesitation about Williams is location. </p>
<p><a href=“WRAPS organizes campus-wide food drive, adapts to COVID restrictions – The Williams Record”>WRAPS organizes campus-wide food drive, adapts to COVID restrictions – The Williams Record;
<p>for the class of 2009 he stated:</p>
<p>*The most represented state among all those accepted was once again New York, followed by California and Massachusetts. Nesbitt said that students from the Northeast are more likely to matriculate than those from other regions. </p>
<p>Most students that have been accepted to Williams have also been admitted elsewhere, Nesbitt said. He estimated that most overlaps occur with Yale, Harvard, Amherst, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown and Middlebury. </p>
<p>Some of the most difficult students to yield are those offered merit scholarships by other colleges, given that Williams has a need-based financial aid system and does not offer merit scholarships. Nesbitt also said that the rural location of the College dissuades some potential Ephs from attending. *</p>
<p><a href=“WRAPS organizes campus-wide food drive, adapts to COVID restrictions – The Williams Record”>WRAPS organizes campus-wide food drive, adapts to COVID restrictions – The Williams Record;
<p>Nesbitt does make an extremely valid point about money. SInce the Ivies only offer need based FA, there are a number of students who do not attend because they are not getting sufficient aid from dartmouth (mostly middle class parents) or the students may be getting “free rides” at merit based schools.</p>
<p>This article describes the research paper:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/10/20/new_ranking_system_based_on_choice/[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/10/20/new_ranking_system_based_on_choice/</a></p>
<p>The paper looks at college choices as you would a round robin sports tournament. </p>
<p>This site has links to download it:</p>
<p><a href=“http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105[/url]”>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105</a></p>
<p>If you have Adobe Acrobat, open it with Acrobat.</p>
<p>For the record, Dartmouth was the overall #10 choice by this system (it includes small LAC’s, and Amherst was #9). There is data that does show head-to-head comparisons of students’ choices (ie, what percentage of the time did students choose Dartmouth over Notre Dame, etc.). The results echo what you see everywhere else, with a few exceptions. There are definiitely niche schools, or schools that have special appeal to certain demographics (for example, Notre Dame is a favorite of Caatholics), which enhances their ranks. Not the definitive ranking, but an interesting way of looking at things.</p>
<p>To download the file, you may want to open it in a new window so that it can be more easily seen. Just open with their default program (a variant of Acrobat)…if you have Acrobat, it will work. The charts of interest are on pages 28-31, and the head-to-head is on page 32 (page numbers are for Acrobat, not for report…they differ by just one or two pages). To compare schools, for example Dartmouth And Notre Dame, note that Dartmouth is ranked 3 places above ND, and that students chose Dartmouth 76% of the time above the school ranked three spaces below it.</p>