<p><a href=“http://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/fastfacts.asp[/url]”>http://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/fastfacts.asp</a></p>
<p>The yield at Yale Law School currently stands at 87%, which is excellent, but not over 90% as Poster X claims.</p>
<p>The yield at Harvard Law School is 70%, not 60% as Poster X claims.</p>
<p>Yale Law’s yield was not always that high. In fact, before the U.S. News started to rank Yale Law first, largely based on arbitrary criteria, Yale’s yield was a miserable 50%. Twenty percentage points below Harvard’s.</p>
<p>Here’s an article by a Yale Law professor Henry Hansmann:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp9901.pdf[/url]”>http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp9901.pdf</a></p>
<p>“for many years, the Yale Law School’s take-up rate - that is, the percentage of students who choose to attend Yale among those to whom Yale offers admission - remained fairly contant at around 50 percent. Then, in the early 1990s, the take-up rate rose rapidly to around 80 percent, where it has remained… Why did Yale suddenly emerge as everyone’s top choice among law schools? … I suspect that a particular important factor was the advent of U.S. News and World Report’s nationwide rankings of law schools…In rankings published in 1992 and annually since then, Yale has held steady at number 1, while Harvard rebounded to the number 2 spot and has likewise remained there. Not surprisingly, the big jumps in Yale’s take-up rate came with the classes entering in 1992 and 1993…”</p>
<p>Yale’s higher yield is almost entirely attributable to its ranking by a second-rate newsweekly magazine. It should be forever thankful to the U.S. News and perhaps consider changing its name to Yale-U.S. News Law School.</p>