Word: yielding
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More prospective students this year have elected to come to Harvard than at any point in the past 25 years, raising the yield for the class of 2002 to nearly 80 percent, a spokesperson for the admissions office said yesterday...
...increase in yield could dispel fears that Harvard's financial aid system will drive away prospective students. While Yale, Princeton and other selective colleges have made well-publicized expansions to their aid programs this year, Harvard's system remains unchanged...
...think these numbers bounce around a bit every year, and I don't know that a lot of significance can be attached to the small change from last year," he said in an e-mail message. "Overall, of course, Harvard's excellence is the reason why the yield number is consistently so much higher than that of other colleges...
...greeting his visitors, gauging his mood for nervous guests, correcting his spelling, telling him when he's behind schedule and bringing him all sorts of other news, good and bad. In coming days she'll face Starr's team for another grilling under oath about her boss, which could yield the most crucial testimony yet against the President. She alone can say whether he tried to enlist her in covering up an alleged affair with Lewinsky by helping find the intern a job and by retrieving several gifts Clinton purchased...
...always been amazed at Harvard's incredibly high yield, which hovers around 75 percent each year. This year will certainly be no exception. With pre-frosh descending upon the campus this weekend, take a moment to reflect on your own college decision. Were you motivated more by the fear of what you would miss out on by turning down one of the top schools in the country, or by the thrill of benefiting from the specific resources that Harvard has to offer...