[larkinforever]

[quote author=larkinforever link=topic=9773.msg87235#msg87235 date=1396656194]
The yield is still consistently higher at Harvard (81.9% last year) than Stanford (76.0%).

My impression is that Harvard accepts many more legacies and development projects than Stanford.  So they might have a larger pool of admits that they know will matriculate.
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You may well be correct. I think, however, there is another (or an additional) explanation - the higher proportion of early admits (for which there is a substantially higher yield across all schools relative to the overall admit to accept ratio) for Harvard as compared to Stanford can alone probably explain the difference in overall yield at this point in time. That's what I was alluding to in my original post (though apparently not very clearly). As opposed to the current, relatively modest difference in yield between the two schools, the historically higher yield for Harvard could probably not be explained in this way because of the historically larger gap in yield between Harvard and Stanford (though I'm too lazy to do the calcs to verify).

[larkinforever]

[quote author=larkinforever link=topic=9773.msg87235#msg87235 date=1396656194]
The yield is still consistently higher at Harvard (81.9% last year) than Stanford (76.0%).

My impression is that Harvard accepts many more legacies and development projects than Stanford.  So they might have a larger pool of admits that they know will matriculate.
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You may well be correct. I think, however, there is another (or an additional) explanation - the higher proportion of early admits (for which there is a substantially higher yield across all schools relative to the overall admit to accept ratio) for Harvard as compared to Stanford can alone probably explain the difference in overall yield at this point in time. That's what I was alluding to in my original post (though apparently not very clearly). As opposed to the current, relatively modest difference in yield between the two schools, the historically higher yield for Harvard could probably not be explained in this way because of the historically larger gap in yield between Harvard and Stanford (though I'm too lazy to do the calcs to verify).