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Cool site. I knew Harvard's yield was higher than the other schools, but I didn't expect Stanford and Yale to have higher yields so much higher than Princeton.

Cool site. I knew Harvard's yield was higher than the other schools, but I didn't expect Stanford and Yale to have higher yields so much higher than Princeton. I don't think this was true a few years ago when I was applying to schools. How are you gathering information about where students were accepted? And where is Caltech in all this? Also, you know that you can't just add the 25th/75th percentiles for individual SAT sections and come up with overall results, right?

carbocation 16y ago
Thanks. Re: Caltech - if I recall correctly, there wasn't enough data for it to produce results when I ran the algorithm last year. I suspect we'll have enough this year (I'll probably re-run the algorithm in a few weeks). Basically the entire site is dedicated to gathering information from students, and then transforming that data into something useful for them. So I gather the info directly (over 250,000 college apps from 50,000 different people are in the system by now). I honestly have no idea why I thought I could get away with adding together the 25th and 75th percentiles for SAT subscores on that page; it's not something I do elsewhere on the site. (I'm using "I" here since I'm sure this is my fault alone.) Thanks for pointing that out! Edit: I forgot about Princeton. The Elo points can be a bit hard to decipher on the fly; for example, Yale should only beat Princeton in 59:41 fashion - not exactly a drubbing. Here's an Ivy+Stanford+MIT cross-admit comparison based on this data - http://college.mychances.net/tools/college-choice-matrix.php?list[]=342&list[]=544&list[]=3&list[]=1737&list[]=1519&list[]=165&list[]=1034&list[]=319&list[]=762&list[]=361 http://college.mychances.net/tools/college-choice-matrix.php...