[Farm93]

I do find it interesting that there are more applicants to Stanford (42,167) than Harvard (34,295) (which hasn't consistently been the case until the past few years) and that the overall acceptance rate for Stanford (5.07%) is lower than Harvard (5.9%) (which hasn't been the case until the past two cycles - even with relatively similar class sizes, it takes a large number of additional applicants for Stanford's overall acceptance rate to be lower than Harvard's, because of the significantly higher acceptance rate for Harvard early applicants (21.14%) compared to Stanford early applicants (10.77%)). The yield is still consistently higher at Harvard (81.9% last year) than Stanford (76.0%), however, and it will be interesting to see the numbers for this year (the same early applicant effect will also impact yield, as Harvard fills approximately 58% of its class through early applicants while Stanford fills 44% of its class through early applicants).

I did not have time this morning to do this properly (AYSO-stuff), but it looks like the numbers actually imply a similar yield rate at both schools for the two groups.

If you imagine a roughly 30% spread in yield rates between the early applicant pool and the traditional pool then both schools could have the similar yield rate for both early applicants and traditional date applicants.  The difference in yield could come exclusively from the greater number of early applicants accepted.  I quickly used 95% and 65% to get numbers that would fit, and would produce numbers similar to 82% & 76%.

[Farm93]

I do find it interesting that there are more applicants to Stanford (42,167) than Harvard (34,295) (which hasn't consistently been the case until the past few years) and that the overall acceptance rate for Stanford (5.07%) is lower than Harvard (5.9%) (which hasn't been the case until the past two cycles - even with relatively similar class sizes, it takes a large number of additional applicants for Stanford's overall acceptance rate to be lower than Harvard's, because of the significantly higher acceptance rate for Harvard early applicants (21.14%) compared to Stanford early applicants (10.77%)). The yield is still consistently higher at Harvard (81.9% last year) than Stanford (76.0%), however, and it will be interesting to see the numbers for this year (the same early applicant effect will also impact yield, as Harvard fills approximately 58% of its class through early applicants while Stanford fills 44% of its class through early applicants).

I did not have time this morning to do this properly (AYSO-stuff), but it looks like the numbers actually imply a similar yield rate at both schools for the two groups.

If you imagine a roughly 30% spread in yield rates between the early applicant pool and the traditional pool then both schools could have the similar yield rate for both early applicants and traditional date applicants.  The difference in yield could come exclusively from the greater number of early applicants accepted.  I quickly used 95% and 65% to get numbers that would fit, and would produce numbers similar to 82% & 76%.