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...Students decide yield,” said Robert Morse of the US News & World Report, “A high yield shows that acceptances are valuable, popular, or coveted...
...ranking was not based on new analysis, said Morse, but on additional data that factored into their August issue on the nation’s best colleges. Harvard’s yield was 76.2 percent last spring, the highest of the 130 schools ranked in the top 50 percentile of US News’ list of best colleges...
Fitzsimmons, however, said he doubted the significance of yield as a indicator of popularity...
...think yield is a very slippery figure in many ways, so I don’t think it’s a particularly accurate barometer for a variety of reasons,” said Fitzsimmons...
Others factors, such as whether or not an institution has an early admissions program, also affect yield, said Fitzsimmons. Binding early acceptance clauses allow a college to guarantee the enrollment of a set percentage of their next class, while non-binding early action programs give colleges a few extra months to recruit accepted students...