Crimson - college ranking based on cross admit yield data

[Anonymous]

probably the most intelligent approach i’ve seen - LACs will probably start appearing in the 30s or 40s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given the presence of ED and SCEA, cross-admit data and yield is meaningless here. There is really no efficient market of free choices here as the ranking seems to imply. The sample size of true cross admit data between any two colleges is miniscule and barely moves the pointer on yield at these colleges. A large pool of the students with the most power to make independent decisions is removed from the pool with ED and practically with SCEA, because very few students get admitted to more than one SCEA School given the abysmal RD admit rate at these schools. Students that are left in the RD pool are essentially financial aid shoppers and their decision to pick one School over another is hardly "market efficient". It's heavily "market distorted" by aid dollars.

For e.g.a Penn vs Duke or Vanderbilt will only be based on an RD pool where Vanderbilt can win every cross admit bake off with enough merit or need based aid dollars. This says nothing about the true market position of either Penn or Vanderbilt.

Any school that is test optional should never be in the top 10-20. With test scores starting to come back it should be one of the main ranking criteria: everyone submits scores and 100% of applicants are in the reported average.

[Anonymous]

my kiddo said that no one in her friend group would ever choose Penn over Vandy - only Duke and HYPSM - but her group isn’t hard core academic - they are mostly the bright charismatic athletic/ leaders who like to have fun

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my kiddo said that no one in her friend group would ever choose Penn over Vandy - only Duke and HYPSM - but her group isn’t hard core academic - they are mostly the bright charismatic athletic/ leaders who like to have fun

There’s some incongruity in how you describe your kid and her friends, and MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my kiddo said that no one in her friend group would ever choose Penn over Vandy - only Duke and HYPSM - but her group isn’t hard core academic - they are mostly the bright charismatic athletic/ leaders who like to have fun

Nothing of what you say makes much sense. If they would pick HYPSM over Vandy then they are prestige seekers because those aren’t “fun” schools.

Also, doesn’t sound like your kid and their friends is getting into any of these schools…so maybe they should set their sights on Alabama and similar places.

[Anonymous]

What year are these yields from? People keep posting outdated yields on here in an attempt to boost certain schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What year are these yields from? People keep posting outdated yields on here in an attempt to boost certain schools.

This “study” was from last year

[Anonymous]

If you take out state schools, which are good schools at good value but not the similar category as top privates then its same 20 schools which keep shuffling rankings.

[Anonymous]

TOP 20 RANK

Stanford University Stanford, CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Princeton University Princeton, NJ
Yale University New Haven, CT
Columbia University New York City, NY
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Brown University Providence, RI
Northwestern University Evanston, IL
University of Chicago Chicago, IL
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
University of Southern California Los Angeles,CA
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
Duke University Durham, NC
John Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Rice, Houston, TX
Georgetown, DC

[Anonymous]

Always question the data. There is no way they could’ve gotten statistically significant data on cross yields. Therefore, this list is useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Always question the data. There is no way they could’ve gotten statistically significant data on cross yields. Therefore, this list is useless.

Agreed. Source of data questionable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always question the data. There is no way they could’ve gotten statistically significant data on cross yields. Therefore, this list is useless.

Agreed. Source of data questionable.

Which school is the OP promoting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is dumb

It is. OP should have looked up the reputation of the issuing entity before posting. just look at wiki! it's not good

[Anonymous]

Crimson attract the international prestige whores like no other.

Cross admit percentages might be interesting from a large, national sample. But a cross section from a handful of Crimson’s suckered families? Oh my. This is a new low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crimson attract the international prestige whores like no other.

Cross admit percentages might be interesting from a large, national sample. But a cross section from a handful of Crimson’s suckered families? Oh my. This is a new low.

Well it tells how people who care most about prestige choose