Word: yield
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...yield rate of Asians also fell slightly, while those of Americans Indians and Chicanos both rose...
...overall percentage of those high school students admitted to Harvard who actually come to Cambridge dropped from last year's 73 percent to a 70 percent admissions yield, said Director of Admissions Laura G. Fisher yesterday...
While last year 113, or 64 percent, of the 176 Blacks matriculated at Harvard, this year only 55 percent, or 111, of 201 accepted Blacks decided to enroll. The yield rate for Puerto Ricans fell from 73 to 64 percent, and the rate for Hispanics, from 100 percent (16 out of 16) to 70 percent...
Fisher said that increased offers of merit-based scholarships for minority students by non-Ivy colleges, a Westward geographical shift in Harvard's applicant pool, and the decreased number of successful early action candidates all combined to depress this year's admissions yield...
...farther a student lives from a school, theless likely he is to go there," Fisher said of theincreased number of applications from the Westernpart of the country. Byerly Hall officialspredicted the effect on the yield from this shifttwo months...