<p>jim, I wasn’t making any assumption. I was questioning if you were making a fair comparison. Questioning isn’t the same thing as making conclusion. </p>
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<p>The US News has no control of the data, so they couldn’t have switched it. The US News simply publishes whatever schools give them. Did WashU give them mixed data? That’s what I was questioning. You seemed to assume the answer is no without knowing that’s actually the case. Wishful thinking? Well, things like that did happen. Emory was an example few years ago though it looks like that was an honest mistake and they have since submitted the enrolled stats (Emory has Common Data Set available on their website).</p>
<p>I don’t like legacy either. But as far as stats goes, Brown publishes them on their website. <a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University. Note how the admitted pool has significantly higher percentage of 800 than enrolled pool even for a school with a very decent yield (it’s likely Brown lost them to HY).
Other examples:
Tufts: <a href=“Tufts University”>Tufts University; (enrolled)
<a href=“Tufts University”>Tufts University; (admitted; ~40-pt difference between the enrolled and admitted students).
Duke: <a href=“http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2011profile.asp[/url]”>http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2011profile.asp</a> (admitted)
UPenn: <a href=“http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php[/url]”>http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php</a> (admitted)
Cornell: <a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/EnteringClassProfile.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/EnteringClassProfile.pdf</a> (enrolled)
Northwestern: <a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/03/state.html[/url]”>http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/03/state.html</a> (admitted)
<a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/admission.html[/url]”>http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/admission.html</a> (enrolled; 40-point difference between the enrolled and the admitted) </p>
<p>I was trying to find things like those above for WashU on their website or any WashU article but I couldn’t find any. But for WashU to have the stats listed on US News, it means it somehow retains many high scorers while having a fairly low yield. It’s possible but also rather unusual. </p>
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<p>I am sure WashU provides one of the best educational experience. But if you are going to tout WashU’s stats as comparable to HYP’s and higher than Stanford’s, I think it’s only fair if you know for sure you are comparing apples to apples (enrolled vs enrolled).</p>