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...where academic luminaries go, students are sure to follow. Stanford's yield rate--the percentage of admitted students who choose to attend--has been steadily increasing over the past several years. Although this is true of a number of top schools, over the past five years Stanford has consistently--albeit slightly--beaten Yale in matriculation rates, coming in second only to Harvard...
Both Yale and Stanford saw the rate jump about 10 percent between 1994 and 1995, when they adopted Early Decision policies...
Marlyn McGrath-Lewis '70-'73 says that Harvard's yield against Stanford, MIT and Caltech is about consistent with the overall yield of 80 percent...
...adds that the admitted student overlap with Stanford is higher than that with the other two, specialized schools...
Last week, as the stock market took a serious nosedive--especially in technology areas--some debated whether Stanford could sustain its meteoric rise...