Why do UVA and Michigan have such low yields?

sevmom
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:48:52 +0000

It’s interesting to look at a school like Thomas Jefferson (TJHSST) in northern Virginia, a fairly affluent part of the country. You are admitted by testing. In 2010, 46.38% of the students were Asian and that has gone up to over 50% since then. In 2010, 43.63% were white and only 3.84 were Hispanic and 2.42 AA(despite being over 25% of the population). There have been complaints in the newspapers about the underrepresentation of some groups. The kids in the school are going to be top scorers and probably predisposed to look at the best schools they can get into. So, in the class of 2010 (of about 450), 15 went to MIT, 17 to Cornell, 3 to Harvard,17 to Duke, 10 to Princeton,10 to Yale, 9 to Penn, 4 to Georgetown,3 to GWU,9 to CMU,etc. Still pretty regional. Not many going out of driving distance-1 to Rice, 2 to Northwestern, 4 to Washington U, 6 to USC-USC seems to have alot of merit aid for high stats kids so maybe that explains the 6 to USC). Few to LAC’s-2 to Colby,1 to Bard, 2 to Swarthmore, 5 to Oberlin. Lots of kids to the Virginia schools-UVa 91(in some years that number is over 100),William and Mary 60,Virginia Tech 30,George Mason 4, Mary Washington 4. It was interesting to look at the numbers for what is considered one of the best public schools in the country.