Why should I choose Cal?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Wrong. Dead wrong. What matters is not the percentage yield of students that Virginia obtained through ED but rather the percentage change of yield when Virginia eliminated ED. After all, those students who would have applied ED in past years and then matriculated had they been admitted would now just be part of the regular admissions pool and presumably would still matriculate if they are admitted.</p>

<p>Virginia’s 2007 yield (while ED was still in effect) was 51.3%. Hence, Virginia’s overall delta yield change from ED was only about 3%. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.web.virginia.edu/IAAS/data_catalog/institutional/historical/admission/first_total.htm[/url]”>http://www.web.virginia.edu/IAAS/data_catalog/institutional/historical/admission/first_total.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>In other words, let’s say that Berkeley used ED and hence got a boost of 3% of yield. *Berkeley would still be trailing Virginia.</p>

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<p>It’s actually about 7-8% difference. But you hit upon the real problem, which I had also discussed previously. The real problem is that Berkeley let the other UC’s - especially UCLA - shrink the gap. It wasn’t that long ago when Berkeley was the dominant public school in California by far. No serious debate was even possible. Now, although Berkeley still wins, one could actually reasonably debate the point.</p>