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According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonpartisan think tank, the rankings have a statistically significant effect on admissions yield and SAT scores of incoming first-years...
...result, pressure has mounted among colleges and universities to make gains in key rankings categories such as admissions yield and percentage of alumni giving, higher education observers...
Many critics allege that the rankings’ reliance on admissions statistics such as selectivity and yield is responsible for igniting the dramatic growth in binding Early Decision admissions programs, which force applicants to commit to attend a school in the fall of their senior year...
...most important fact about early decision is that it provides a way to improve a college’s selectivity and yield simultaneously, and therefore to move the school up on national-ranking charts,” Fallows, also a Crimson editor, wrote in the Atlantic...
...faster by stealing or buying enriched uranium on the black market from former Soviet republics--which U.S. intelligence believes he has not yet succeeded in doing. If he could make such a deal, however, U.S. officials say Iraq could have a crude nuclear weapon in months, with a yield equivalent to the ones that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki...