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...admissions officers, 73% of the 2,184 accepted by Harvard (from 13,500 applicants) agreed to attend. This percentage, called the yield ratio, is the surest barometer of where the best students want to go. "We're disappointed, selfishly, because those students aren't enrolling here," says Jean Fetter, dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford, whose yield of 60% is second to Harvard's. A Harvard admission can be regarded as such a prize that one Wall Street lawyer, though he chose not to attend, keeps his framed acceptance on his wall so that other people will know he could...
Harvard has led the field among those schools that attract students from Stanford, said Jean Fetter, Dean of Undergraduate admissions at Stanford. Out of the 903 that turned down Stanford last year, 203 went to Harvard, 100 to Princeton, 92 to Yale, 60 to MIT, 36 to Berkeley, and 28 to Brown...
...Those top five schools have remained the same since 1979," said Fetter...
...Fetter attributed Stanford's rise in popularity along the east coast to its becoming in increasingly well known as a national university. She said that national prominence has been achieved largely through the high quality of Stanford's faculty and the extremely strong leadership of the past set of university presidents...
Stanford is a hot college in other ways. But Fetter cautioned that even though "the sun shines more, the temperature is higher, students should not be misled.. [into thinking] the academics are laid back." Declined Princeton to Enter: Harvard Yale Stanford 270 135 155 Declined Others to Enter Princeton: Harvard Yale Stanford...